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Article: Vietnam Photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths, 72
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 21, 2008
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Philip Jones Griffiths, 72, a photojournalist who spent years
traveling across Vietnam to capture the effects of the war on its
people, died March 19 of cancer at his home in London.
Mr. Jones Griffiths, a former president of the Magnum photo
agency, was perhaps best known for his book "Vietnam Inc.," which
was described as one of the most detailed studies of any conflict.
In one of the book's most haunting photos, he captured the image
of a naked young boy cowering and covering his ears to drown out the
sound of a passing U.S. helicopter. Mr. Jones Griffiths wrote that
the unnamed boy went mad after seeing his mother killed by a
helicopter gunship.
"If anybody in Washington had read that ...