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Friday, May 15, 2009

Photojournalist Hugh Van Es dies

Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who shot one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam war, a group of people scaling a ladder to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop of the US embassy in Saigon in 1975 just before the city was captured by the North Vietnamese, died today in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong. He was 67 years old. Hugh Van Es apparently suffered a brain hemorrhage last week and never regained consciousness.

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