'Napalm girl' Kim Phuc receives German prize for peace work Activist honoured decades after she wa

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4. Nick Ut had a huge impact with that single photo.

http://www.forbesindia.com/article/recliner/i-took-the-picture-that-changed-the-war-nick-ut/51441/1
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Q. What happened after you took the Napalm Girl photograph?
When I took that picture, I was really happy. Because it changed the war. After that picture was published, the world became angry about what America was doing in Vietnam. US President Richard Nixon saw it, and knew that they had lost the war. He said it was a fake photograph. But there was video footage of the napalm bombs coming down on the village, and I said you can talk to Kim Phuc.

I was also lucky that I could save Kim’s life. There are a lot of journalists who take pictures and then walk away. I knew that if I did not help her, she would die. There was smoke coming out of her body, it was so hot. I put her in the car; she sat on the floor, as she could not sit anywhere else because her skin was falling off. And she kept saying, “Brother, I’ll die, I’ll die.”

We drove for about 40 minutes to the hospital, and pleaded with the doctors and nurses to help. But they refused, because she was a local, and wanted me to take Kim to Saigon, which was two hours away. But I knew she would die in that time. So, I told the doctors that if she died, the news would be on the front page of all newspapers. Only then they agreed to help.

But, in the next few days, when the picture was out, the best doctors from Germany, Japan and France came to help Kim.
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