- When Saigon fell in 1975, he had to flee Vietnam like thousands of others. After a brief stay in a California refugee camp, the AP assigned him to its Tokyo bureau. Later, he was given the choice of working in Washington DC or Los Angeles; he chose LA so he could photograph Hollywood celebrities.
- He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer whose most famous photo is a black-and-white image from the Vietnam War that's known as "Napalm Girl" (Thi Kim Phuc Phan) -- a terrified child running naked down a road, her body literally burning from the napalm bombs dropped on her village. He rushed 9-year-old Kim Phuc and the others to a hospital, where doctors saved her life.
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