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I think that Nick
is kind of an institution.

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He's iconic. He's the zelig
of the world in general.

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One of those constant observers
who's always inside the shot.

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Somebody who always
manages to find

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that great, intimate shot

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that tells a story,
all by itself.

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[Uplifting music playing]

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We all go out as photographers
trying to do what we can do.

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And there was this one moment
where Nick was in the place

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and the world was wrapped
around him and his camera

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in a certain way.

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[Camera shutter clicking]

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[Camera shutter clicking]

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I looked at the picture
and instantly knew

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that this
was explosive material.

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It was just a superbly
photographed picture

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that told the whole story.

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That picture,
as much as any photograph,

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helped Usher in
the end of the war

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six months later.

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[Nick] Oh, my god.

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She's great.

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[Camera shutter clicking]

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Everybody knows
about that photo.

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The Vietnam photo.

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But what happened
to Nick afterwards,

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that's a story that could
only happen in america.

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[Quiet music playing]

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[Protestors shouting
in background]

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Free romulo, free romulo!

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[Narrator] Photographer
Nick ut has worked

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for the associated press

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since march 1st, 1966.

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He started
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51 years ago

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during the height
of the Vietnam war

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when he was just 16.

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The associated press
is the largest

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non-profit news service
in the world.

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Providing articles,
photos, and videos

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to thousands of newspapers
and broadcasters

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all over the globe.

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Nationally, the papers are all
part of a cooperative

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that makes up ap.

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And so,
we'll shoot an assignment

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and then it'll go
on the ap wire.

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And then those papers
that subscribe to the service

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have access to any photos
that we put on the wire.

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Nick, basically
is our fireman, you know.

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He will run out whenever
there's a breaking news event.

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So, he's first in
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usually between seven and eight.

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Any breaking news
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[Narrator] But after five
decades,

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Nick is ready
to turn in his ap cameras.

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His last day on the job
will be in just three weeks.

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51 years, I've learned
so much in my life.

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I take pictures
almost every day.

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Ap is 24 hours.

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If anything happens in la,
they call me.

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Plane crash, earthquake, fire,
they say, "Nicky, go there."

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I think
one of the lawyers are coming.

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The daughter will come out
in a couple of minutes.

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And will hold a bag
of clothes for him.

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- Brand new clothes.
- Okay.

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Yeah. He just come out
two minutes ago.

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- Got it.
- Yeah, yeah.

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[David] Nick ut, for 40 years,
has been bombing around la

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as a guy who doesn't speak
perfect English.

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I mean, it's almost
like a running gag

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with everybody who knows him.

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He's not gonna come this way.

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No, no,
he'll come out over there.

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The car will pick up
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but he'll walk over there.

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It's a tribute to his tenacity

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and ingenuity and his ability

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that he has been able
to deal in a,

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really, what would be
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compared to where he came from
in Vietnam.

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[Nick] I came to la in 1977.

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I looked at Hollywood
and said, "my god."

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Vietnam and Hollywood,
big difference.

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Nick is kind of
the honorary mayor out there.

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He's kind of a fixture.

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He's kind of loose,
but he's all business

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when it's time to get that shot.

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There's something about him
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both in personality, but also

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in his ability
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and get himself
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to take that shot,
he's a natural.

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And anybody that's seen
the most famous photo,

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the pulitzer
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can see that he was able to
get it at the exact right time.

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The aims of the enemy
have been put out of reach

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by the skill and the bravery
of Americans and their allies.

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We may have to face
long, hard combat,

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but we will
give our fighting men

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what they must have. Every gun,

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and every dollar,
and every decision,

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whatever the cost,
or whatever the challenge.

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[Narrator] To say
Nick's storied career

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had unlikely beginnings

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is an understatement.

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Nick was born huynh cdng (it
in southeastern Vietnam,

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the 11th of 12 children.

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It was his older,
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hunh thanh m,

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who provided
Nick's creative spark.

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Nick was a 14-year old student

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who'd rather hang out
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than go to school.

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[Peter] Nick ut was essentially
a child of the associated press.

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The reason I say that

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is that his older brother,
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was a photographer for the ap
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He was very influential
on his younger brother.

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Every time he came back
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my husband's clothes
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So was his camera.

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And he came home,
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muddy, dirty camera
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Nick sat on the chair.

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Here's the table and here's
the dirty, muddy camera

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and Nick goes like this.

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He was mesmerized by the camera.

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He turned around
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"do you want me to clean
the camera for you?"

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And my husband said, "no,

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you don't know
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Wait a minute, I'll go shower
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and I'll teach you how to

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undo the lens
so you can clean it."

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So every time
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from the operation,
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to clean the camera.

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My brother trained me
how to take a picture.

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He was always so busy
covering the war in Vietnam.

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In '65 when he came back,

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he showed me a little bit
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[Somber music playing]

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[Peter] Hunh thanh m's death
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was a terrible shock.

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What made it even more personal

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was that
we got to know m's family.

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He'd been married
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His wife was 19 years old.

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They had a child.

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[Arlette] Vietnamese men
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came to my house

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and broke the news

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that "your husband,
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had been killed in the war."

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I didn't believe it.

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I said, "no, this can't happen."

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I did not cry.

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I did not believe.
I refused to believe.

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I did not cry.

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Then I went to bed
and I laid in bed.

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I think I heard the car engine.

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Eddie Adams had come over

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and told me,
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and we'll go get his body."

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Then I knew that it was true.

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The funeral cortege
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wound from his brother's home

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with his wife
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dressed in mourning robes.

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Nick ut presented himself

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to Horst faas and I.

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[Narrator] Horst faas
was chief of photo operations

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for the associated press's
Saigon bureau.

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In addition
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he was also in charge
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and training new talent.

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[Peter] Nick ut was just a kid.

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He was in tears.

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He said that he wanted
to work for the ap.

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He wanted to be with the ap
like his brother.

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Horst faas say,
"too young. Go home."

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"We don't want to give you a job
because we worry

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you die again like
your brother."

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We were not going to risk
this kid's life.

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And Horst faas said,
"sure, one day.

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But now, go home
to your family."

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Then Nick said,
"ap is my family now."

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It turned out... he was correct.

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He became a permanent part
of our operation.

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But it wasn't really
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that Nick revealed that he had
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[Narrator] Getting bumped up
to photographer

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in the Saigon bureau
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for a green-behind-the-ears
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It was an all-star group
of journalists

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who would eventually win
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five pulitzer prizes.

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The Vietnam era ap bureau,

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if you were to compare it
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it would be like the line-up
of the 1927 Yankees.

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I mean, really,
some of the best journalists

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occupied those halls
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It was something.

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So, by 1968,

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he was given Saigon assignments
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primarily Vietnamese stories.

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But we were all very concerned

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and aware of the fact

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that his brother had been killed

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in the war.

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[Narrator] Nick's assignments
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to keep him safe.

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But in 1968,
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the war came looking for Nick.

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[Nick] We had a family gathering

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for Vietnamese new year

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in my house in the mekong delta.

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And I hear the viet cong attack
not too far from my house.

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When I started working at ap,
I always had a company camera.

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In case something happen,
then I had a picture.

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That's why I started
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Then I came back and showed ap.

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My boss, Horst faas, said,
"Nicky!" He always yell at me.

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He said, "I don't want you
to cover the war!"

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But I say "I don't care,
I want to go take pictures."

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[Narrator] Faas
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but would quickly
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On Nick's second day

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as a full-fledged
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he was wounded
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from a mortar explosion.

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[Nick] Some photographer said
to my boss, Horst faas,

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said, "Nicky got shot."

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And he said, "shit."

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Then I came back
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"Nicky, I told you already."
But one month later I go again.

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[Narrator] Unfortunately,
that wasn't the last time

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Horst would regret
letting Nick cover the action.

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He would be wounded
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before the end of the war.

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[Peter] By 1971,
he started to emerge

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as being a primary
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And, certainly, by 1972,

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he was doing regular
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[Automatic gun fire]

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On June 7th of 1972,

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late in the afternoon
in the Saigon bureau,

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we learned
that a major military action

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was taking place at trang bang,

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which was a community
northwest of Saigon

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reachable by road
within an hour.

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But trang bang was a key town
along the road.

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And that was involved
in heavy action.

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The nva had moved in.

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And there were airstrikes
against it

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and the Vietnamese military
were moving closer.

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In the morning
of June 8 of 1972,

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Nick ut was eager
to go and cover it.

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[David] They had strung
concertina wire across the road

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leading in to the village
a couple hundred yards outside

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the edge of the town
and where the pagoda was.

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And they just kind of
didn't want people

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wandering into what was a...

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Probably a company-sized
battle going on.

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We can hear the explosions,
we can hear the rifle fire,

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but we couldn't really
get into the town.

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I'm sure
there were hundreds of days

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during the Vietnam war
that were very much like this.

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The difference being
that this had a fair number

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of press people there
to record it.

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[Nick] I'm there,
like, 7:30 in the morning.

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I see a lot of bombs,
a lot of black smoke.

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Air strikes all the time.

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[David] As this battle
is going on,

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the troops radio in
for air support.

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[Nick] At noon,
I look at pagoda,

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I saw the south Vietnamese army

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throw a smoke grenade
to guide bombs.

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These two Vietnamese air force
sky riders come in,

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they drop napalm
on what they think are the areas

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where the north Vietnamese
troops are.

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[Nick] They drop four napalm.

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The napalm go like this,
very slow.

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Then I had my 300,
I follow the bomb.

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And the bombs exploded!

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[David] Inadvertently,
they dropped the napalm

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in the wrong place.

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Some of it landed
right where the civilians

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were taking refuge
in the pagoda.

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And that was when,
through all the smoke,

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they started to see
people running

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out of the smoke
and up the road.

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[Nick] And after the black smoke
I saw a woman

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holding a towel over her eye
because of the smoke.

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She's running
and then more women

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and children and dogs.

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I keep shooting and shooting.

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I said, "there are people
still in the village."

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Then, like three minutes later

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and old man holding a baby.

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Then another woman with a baby.
She walked very slow.

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She carried a one-year-old boy,
her grandchild, in her arms.

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And see the skin come off,
he was burned so badly.

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My grandchild.

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She called, "help me! Help me!"

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"My grandchild!"

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She kept running about 100 yards

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and she stops.

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I focus on her to get
a picture of the baby.

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When I click, the baby died.

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[David] And I was shooting
with an old knob-wind Leica.

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It was an early,
like about a 1940s Leica.

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You had to turn it
to advance it.

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And this camera
was really hard to load.

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Three times out of four
it wouldn't engage right,

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so you're spending a lot of time

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just trying
to get the film loaded.

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Nick was right next to me.

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And next to him
was a newsweek stringer,

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named Alex shimkin.

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And the two of them
immediately saw

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what had happened
and they took off running

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right toward these people
who were coming up the road.

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It took me another
probably 30 seconds

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to get my camera loaded

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and then I kind of
wandered down the road.

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By the time
I got my film loaded,

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Nick's picture
was already in his camera.

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And in my camera viewfinder,

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I looked right in the smoke
and I saw the girl like this.

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Arms like this, running.

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I said, "why is she
not wearing clothes?"

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[Narrator] The naked
nine-year old girl, Kim phijc,

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had been playing
with her brother and cousins

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outside the pagoda
when the napalm exploded.

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Kim phdc
was closest to the blast.

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[Nick] When she passed me,
I saw her skin come off,

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the body burned so badly.

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00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:33,386
I said, "no, I don't want
no more pictures of her."

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I think she'll die in minutes.

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00:17:45,398 --> 00:17:48,776
[Kim] We heard the soldiers
yelling to us.

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"Children, you have to run.
Run out."

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And all the children ran out.

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And I remember my feet

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just got into
the road number one,

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and I saw the airplane

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come towards me so fast.

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And so loud.

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And I just stood right there.

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And I saw exactly four bombs.

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And landing, landing fast.

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And then I heard,
bup-bup, bup-bup.

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And then, that is the moment
it exploded

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and there was fire
everywhere around me.

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00:18:31,819 --> 00:18:36,490
But then, when the fire
was everywhere,

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I didn't see anyone.

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Just me and the fire on my arm.

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00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:45,458
And then the fire
burned off all my clothes.

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I didn't have time
to take it off.

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No, just burned it off.

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I was screaming,
"too hot. Too hot!"

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I remember one of the soldiers

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gave me some water to drink.

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And then because I cried out,
"too hot, too hot,"

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he poured water over me.

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So at that moment,
I lost my consciousness.

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We were surrounded
by all these people

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who had just come out
of the fire,

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both a bunch of troops,
south Vietnamese troops,

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and the family,
which included Kim

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and her... members of her family.

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And I took a few pictures
of the TV correspondents

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pouring water over Kim's wounds.

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And she's shaking her body,
and says, "oh,

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I want water. I'm dying."

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Then I borrowed one raincoat
from the soldiers

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and I cover her body.

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00:19:43,724 --> 00:19:45,643
One of her uncles
ran up and said,

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"can you take all the children
to hospital?" I said yes.

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And all the children
go in my Van.

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By the time
I got to cu chi hospital

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I open the door
and run inside right away.

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00:19:55,361 --> 00:19:57,780
I went to see the nurse
and the Vietnamese doctor.

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I say, "please help."

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00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:00,658
"We have
so many wounded children."

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00:20:01,325 --> 00:20:04,120
She says, "sorry, we can't
because this is local hospital."

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00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:07,123
"First, you see a lot of people
get hurt in here."

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00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:08,624
"There's not enough medicine."

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00:20:09,625 --> 00:20:12,294
And they asked me,

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00:20:12,378 --> 00:20:15,256
"can you bring all the kids
to Saigon hospital?"

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00:20:15,339 --> 00:20:16,841
The children's hospital.

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00:20:16,924 --> 00:20:18,968
I say, "in two more hours
they all die."

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00:20:19,927 --> 00:20:22,555
I tell them. They keep saying
"sorry" to me.

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00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:23,889
Isay, "...|

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00:20:25,391 --> 00:20:27,551
I hold my media pass up.
I say, "I'm associated press."

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00:20:27,601 --> 00:20:30,062
"If they die, the picture
is front page tomorrow."

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00:20:31,188 --> 00:20:34,358
[David] They finally accepted
Nick was quite demonstrative

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00:20:34,442 --> 00:20:37,069
that they take the kids
and the kids stayed in

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00:20:37,153 --> 00:20:39,238
and then he drove back
to Saigon.

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00:20:41,198 --> 00:20:43,743
The most interesting thing,
I think, about this picture

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00:20:43,826 --> 00:20:45,619
and the life
of this picture is...

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00:20:45,703 --> 00:20:47,705
That Kim probably
wouldn't be alive today

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00:20:47,788 --> 00:20:49,457
if he hadn't shot that picture.

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00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:52,585
Every time
I look at that picture,

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00:20:52,668 --> 00:20:54,211
yes, it hurts me.

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00:20:55,504 --> 00:20:58,841
I can smell the smoke.

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00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:02,845
I can see the fire burn me.

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00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:07,475
And I can feel the terrifying
of that moment.

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00:21:09,310 --> 00:21:11,896
But when that has happened,

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00:21:11,979 --> 00:21:15,441
I'm so thankful
that uncle ut took my picture.

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00:21:16,650 --> 00:21:20,029
I never requested
that picture be taken down

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because that recorded
the horror of war.

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00:21:24,575 --> 00:21:27,119
The truth of what happened,

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the children suffering.

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00:21:30,247 --> 00:21:31,892
[Narrator] While Kim phijc
and the other children

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were being attended to
at cu chi hospital,

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Nick made his way
back to the ap offices

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in Saigon
to get his film developed.

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00:21:40,257 --> 00:21:42,259
Well, around the lunch time,
Horst and I

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00:21:42,343 --> 00:21:45,638
were heading to lunch
at the restaurant

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00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:47,807
a block from the office.

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00:21:47,890 --> 00:21:50,810
And the office boy
came running in and said,

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00:21:50,893 --> 00:21:54,188
"Nick ut's got some
big pictures."

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00:21:54,271 --> 00:21:55,439
"You gotta get back."

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00:21:56,357 --> 00:21:59,276
And so Horst and I
returned to the bureau

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00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,403
and here was Nick,
and Nick was saying,

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00:22:01,487 --> 00:22:05,658
"oh, there was very big napalm,
many children hurt."

435
00:22:06,408 --> 00:22:09,703
When Jackson ishizaki
came out of the darkroom

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00:22:09,787 --> 00:22:11,539
and said, "Horst, Horst."

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00:22:11,622 --> 00:22:14,750
And turned a strip of film

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00:22:15,584 --> 00:22:17,628
and said,
"it's incredible pictures,

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00:22:17,711 --> 00:22:20,840
but we can't use this stuff.
There's naked children in it."

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00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:25,511
So Horst then went
into the darkroom

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00:22:25,594 --> 00:22:27,721
and they printed out pictures.

442
00:22:27,805 --> 00:22:29,515
I was in the ap darkroom

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00:22:30,641 --> 00:22:33,477
when the first pictures
came out of the darkroom.

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00:22:33,561 --> 00:22:38,023
I remember the first little
five by seven wet print

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00:22:38,107 --> 00:22:39,900
that came out of this picture.

446
00:22:39,984 --> 00:22:42,778
And somebody was holding it
and we're all kind of leaning

447
00:22:42,862 --> 00:22:45,531
over their shoulders
looking at this picture.

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00:22:45,614 --> 00:22:48,993
And my reaction was what
I'm sure

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00:22:49,076 --> 00:22:52,663
every photographer ever has been

450
00:22:52,746 --> 00:22:54,957
when you look at a picture

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00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,126
that somebody else

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00:22:57,209 --> 00:22:58,919
was in the same place
that you were

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00:22:59,003 --> 00:23:00,713
and you're just kind of looking
to see,

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00:23:00,796 --> 00:23:02,506
well, do I have
a better picture?

455
00:23:02,590 --> 00:23:04,884
Or is this better
than anything I have?

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00:23:06,218 --> 00:23:08,137
And I looked at that picture
and I thought, wow,

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00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:11,307
this is pretty good. It's better
than anything I've got.

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00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:12,909
I mean, the thing is,
you have to remember

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00:23:12,933 --> 00:23:14,518
at that point
only about seven people

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00:23:14,602 --> 00:23:16,228
had seen this picture.

461
00:23:16,312 --> 00:23:18,063
It wasn't
a big, famous picture yet.

462
00:23:18,147 --> 00:23:19,315
It was just a picture

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00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:21,859
that was a wet
five by seven print.

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00:23:21,942 --> 00:23:24,111
And I remember very distinctly

465
00:23:24,194 --> 00:23:26,655
hearing Horst faas
look at Nick and say,

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00:23:28,282 --> 00:23:30,075
"Nick ut,
you did good work today."

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00:23:30,993 --> 00:23:33,913
And then began
a 30-minute debate

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00:23:33,996 --> 00:23:38,208
about whether we should even
send the pictures to New York.

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00:23:38,292 --> 00:23:40,586
Personally, I don't think
there was any doubt

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00:23:40,669 --> 00:23:43,088
that we would send it
to New York.

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00:23:43,172 --> 00:23:47,343
There were those who said,
"well it may...

472
00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:48,844
It may be objectionable."

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00:23:48,928 --> 00:23:50,888
I didn't feel that at all.

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00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:53,432
War is objectionable.

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00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:55,809
Napalm is objectionable.

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00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:58,228
And Horst said,
"what do you think?"

477
00:23:58,312 --> 00:23:59,939
And my view was

478
00:24:00,022 --> 00:24:03,525
we send the picture
and supporting pictures

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00:24:03,609 --> 00:24:04,902
to New York,

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00:24:04,985 --> 00:24:06,737
well-captioned,

481
00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:08,364
with full circumstances

482
00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:11,784
of the story of Nick ut
taking the picture.

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00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:14,620
And have them decide
how they're gonna handle it.

484
00:24:15,371 --> 00:24:18,290
So the pictures were sent off,
along with the story.

485
00:24:21,168 --> 00:24:23,963
Within 12 hours
we knew the picture was used

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00:24:24,046 --> 00:24:26,674
in hundreds
of American newspapers

487
00:24:26,757 --> 00:24:27,757
and on television.

488
00:24:28,384 --> 00:24:31,637
And the response about getting
more information

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00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,222
about the circumstances

490
00:24:33,847 --> 00:24:35,099
of what went on.

491
00:24:35,724 --> 00:24:37,434
And how it happened.

492
00:24:37,518 --> 00:24:41,063
Finding, you know,
the incredible interest

493
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:43,357
in Nick ut at that time.

494
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,942
The guy who took the picture.

495
00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:49,238
So the reaction
was not unexpected.

496
00:24:50,072 --> 00:24:52,199
[George] That little girl,
completely naked,

497
00:24:52,282 --> 00:24:55,577
was something
that really galvanized

498
00:24:55,661 --> 00:24:58,622
the peace movement
here in the United States.

499
00:24:58,706 --> 00:25:02,710
That made a profound impact
on me, personally.

500
00:25:03,377 --> 00:25:05,629
It just made me
that much more determined

501
00:25:05,713 --> 00:25:08,674
to be active
in the campaign for peace

502
00:25:08,757 --> 00:25:11,343
and an end to the Vietnam war.

503
00:25:11,427 --> 00:25:14,304
It was reported
that Nixon told aides,

504
00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:16,015
"this is a phony picture.

505
00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:17,098
This is a setup."

506
00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:40,956
President Nixon
said it's a fake.

507
00:25:42,041 --> 00:25:43,959
I couldn't believe it.

508
00:25:44,043 --> 00:25:46,628
I cannot change their opinion.

509
00:25:47,421 --> 00:25:49,923
But my point of view is

510
00:25:50,007 --> 00:25:51,633
I am still alive.

511
00:25:51,717 --> 00:25:53,552
I'm that little girl.

512
00:25:53,635 --> 00:25:56,096
All my scars are still here.

513
00:25:57,765 --> 00:25:59,516
[Peter] It was no surprise to me

514
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,269
when Nick won
the pulitzer prize.

515
00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:06,607
Certainly that photograph
has become more than iconic.

516
00:26:06,690 --> 00:26:12,071
It represents war
in its worst possible aspect.

517
00:26:12,154 --> 00:26:14,698
The death and maiming
of children,

518
00:26:14,782 --> 00:26:16,450
of innocent people.

519
00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:19,953
And I think it will continue to
for the end of time.

520
00:26:33,342 --> 00:26:34,927
[Narrator] With just
two weeks left

521
00:26:35,010 --> 00:26:36,929
until his retirement
from the ap,

522
00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:39,765
Nick finds himself
with a very important

523
00:26:39,848 --> 00:26:40,974
weekend assignment.

524
00:26:41,058 --> 00:26:42,726
-Hi, dad.

525
00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:46,522
Mwah! Hi there.

526
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,857
Can you watch the kids
for a little bit? Good.

527
00:26:48,941 --> 00:26:50,526
We'll take a picture. Okay?

528
00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:52,361
He definitely loves
his grandkids.

529
00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:54,822
He loves to play with them.
He loves to take pictures

530
00:26:54,905 --> 00:26:56,782
of them. Of course.

531
00:26:56,865 --> 00:26:58,718
[Nick] I share a lot of pictures
of my grandchildren

532
00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:01,578
on Facebook.
People love my grandchildren.

533
00:27:01,662 --> 00:27:03,122
They say, "Nicky,
your granddaughter

534
00:27:03,205 --> 00:27:04,205
is so beautiful."

535
00:27:04,873 --> 00:27:06,750
My dad does love
hanging out with the kids.

536
00:27:06,834 --> 00:27:08,794
He's always calling me
to bring the kids over.

537
00:27:09,878 --> 00:27:11,421
Do it again.
The light is so bad.

538
00:27:11,505 --> 00:27:13,274
[Bettina] They like spending
time with their grandfather

539
00:27:13,298 --> 00:27:14,418
because he gives them candy.

540
00:27:14,466 --> 00:27:15,843
And I don't do that.

541
00:27:15,926 --> 00:27:16,927
He'll sneak it to them.

542
00:27:18,679 --> 00:27:20,759
[Michael] It reminds me too
when he used to take care

543
00:27:20,806 --> 00:27:23,058
of my sister and I.
You know, he was the same way.

544
00:27:23,142 --> 00:27:25,602
Every time I see
how he interacts with the kids

545
00:27:25,686 --> 00:27:28,188
it just reminds me
of how he was with us.

546
00:27:28,272 --> 00:27:31,650
There's photos of Chloe
that my father's taken

547
00:27:31,733 --> 00:27:34,111
of her holding, like,
a Japanese umbrella.

548
00:27:34,194 --> 00:27:35,737
It looks
like a big flower field.

549
00:27:36,572 --> 00:27:37,990
I really like that photo.

550
00:27:38,073 --> 00:27:39,700
It captures her innocence.

551
00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:44,788
My dad loves taking pictures
Chloe more than Nathan.

552
00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:47,207
- Can I go now?
- Not yet.

553
00:27:47,291 --> 00:27:48,291
Calm down.

554
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,800
[Bettina] Nathan doesn't like
to take pictures.

555
00:27:51,879 --> 00:27:54,673
Even with me. He just doesn't
like to take photos at all.

556
00:27:54,756 --> 00:27:56,091
- Ow.
- Don't look at the camera.

557
00:27:56,175 --> 00:27:57,676
[Bettina] He's a tough one.

558
00:27:59,261 --> 00:28:02,347
He used to always take pictures
of me when I was little,

559
00:28:02,431 --> 00:28:03,473
instead of my brother.

560
00:28:03,557 --> 00:28:04,975
Obviously, I'm the older child.

561
00:28:05,058 --> 00:28:08,103
So, I got a lot of pictures
growing up.

562
00:28:08,187 --> 00:28:11,440
And I think, when I reached
a more awkward stage,

563
00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:13,108
as every kid does, you know,

564
00:28:13,192 --> 00:28:15,444
I think that's when
I was like, okay,

565
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:17,946
I need to have no more pictures.

566
00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,449
That's probably when
he switched over to my sister.

567
00:28:22,951 --> 00:28:24,846
[Bettina] I think it's easier
to talk my dad now.

568
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:25,871
Now that I'm older.

569
00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:28,874
I don't know, I think
I was more rebellious back then.

570
00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:30,709
Now that I have the kids,
I'm calmer.

571
00:28:32,294 --> 00:28:34,213
[Chloe] Weeee!

572
00:28:34,296 --> 00:28:36,882
[Nick] Ap doesn't want me
to retire. They tell me,

573
00:28:36,965 --> 00:28:38,508
"no, Nicky, don't retire."

574
00:28:38,592 --> 00:28:39,843
But I say, "I have to retire."

575
00:28:39,927 --> 00:28:41,845
Fifty-one years of my life.

576
00:28:41,929 --> 00:28:42,930
I can't work forever.

577
00:28:43,847 --> 00:28:45,933
I want to enjoy my grandchildren

578
00:28:46,016 --> 00:28:47,016
and my family.

579
00:28:49,603 --> 00:28:51,230
- Can I go now?
- Yes.

580
00:28:55,984 --> 00:28:58,528
[Rock music playing]

581
00:29:01,573 --> 00:29:03,051
[Narrator] Nick's picture
may have turned

582
00:29:03,075 --> 00:29:05,035
public sentiment
against the war,

583
00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:07,079
but the fighting
was far from over.

584
00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:10,999
And the attention brought
by the terror of war,

585
00:29:11,083 --> 00:29:12,918
as the photo became known,

586
00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:16,838
put the man who shot it
directly into the line of fire.

587
00:29:16,922 --> 00:29:18,966
The other thing about it,
of course, is that

588
00:29:19,049 --> 00:29:21,176
Nick emerged instantly

589
00:29:21,260 --> 00:29:23,804
as a major war photographer.

590
00:29:31,561 --> 00:29:33,563
[Narrator] Nick provided
front-page coverage

591
00:29:33,647 --> 00:29:36,525
of the war in Vietnam
for the next two years.

592
00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:38,485
But his time
as a war photographer

593
00:29:38,568 --> 00:29:40,279
would finally come to an end

594
00:29:40,362 --> 00:29:42,030
during the fall of Saigon

595
00:29:42,114 --> 00:29:44,866
in the spring of 1975.

596
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:46,535
[Reporter] The last
American helicopter

597
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:48,287
on the roof
of the American embassy

598
00:29:48,370 --> 00:29:51,248
prepares to lift off
the last of the evacuees

599
00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:54,001
fleeing before the advancing
communist armies.

600
00:29:54,084 --> 00:29:56,128
[Nick] The American embassy
ordered the media

601
00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:57,838
working for American companies
to go.

602
00:29:57,921 --> 00:29:59,506
We went to an ap staff meeting

603
00:29:59,589 --> 00:30:01,967
Horst faas, Peter arnett,
and my bureau chief,

604
00:30:02,050 --> 00:30:04,136
George esper, they said
they don't know when,

605
00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:05,929
but we know that we're leaving

606
00:30:06,013 --> 00:30:08,515
because the viet cong attacked
very close to Saigon.

607
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:12,227
Horst faas says, "Nicky, go home
and tell goodbye your family."

608
00:30:12,311 --> 00:30:14,813
I went home
and got my camera bag

609
00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:16,231
and a little bit of clothes.

610
00:30:17,107 --> 00:30:20,068
It was very painful when I said
goodbye to my mom.

611
00:30:20,152 --> 00:30:21,862
I told her I was coming back.

612
00:30:21,945 --> 00:30:23,697
We didn't believe
the fall of Saigon.

613
00:30:26,408 --> 00:30:28,368
[Narrator] The troops
from north Vietnam

614
00:30:28,452 --> 00:30:30,537
continued to push closer
to Saigon.

615
00:30:32,164 --> 00:30:34,708
Nick covered the waves
of refugees

616
00:30:34,791 --> 00:30:37,336
until the word finally came down

617
00:30:37,419 --> 00:30:40,130
that the ap was bugging out.

618
00:30:40,213 --> 00:30:42,883
Nick would take
his final pictures of the war

619
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:45,260
on may 1st, 1975.

620
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:47,846
[Nick] In the meeting,
they asked me, "Nicky,

621
00:30:47,929 --> 00:30:50,140
which one of your family
do you want to bring?"

622
00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:52,017
I say "just bring
my sister-in-law

623
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:53,310
and her daughter."

624
00:30:53,393 --> 00:30:54,936
[Arlette] Horst faas called me

625
00:30:55,020 --> 00:30:57,898
to say, "you be ready
in half an hour."

626
00:30:57,981 --> 00:30:59,733
I say, "how am I gonna pack?"

627
00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:01,026
He said, "no, no packing.

628
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:04,237
Just like a... an overnight bag."

629
00:31:04,905 --> 00:31:07,074
[Narrator] As the north
Vietnamese and Vietcong troops

630
00:31:07,157 --> 00:31:09,493
gained more of the foothold
in Saigon,

631
00:31:09,576 --> 00:31:12,871
people scrambled to evacuate
any way they could.

632
00:31:13,914 --> 00:31:15,290
[Nick] I really wanted to stay,

633
00:31:15,374 --> 00:31:17,000
but my company
didn't want me to stay.

634
00:31:17,084 --> 00:31:18,936
They warned me and said,
"Nick, you'll be in trouble."

635
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,505
"You might be going jail
by the new government."

636
00:31:21,588 --> 00:31:23,131
I said, "I don't think so."

637
00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:25,008
You know, but the company
said, "no more."

638
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:26,426
"Nicky, we have to go."

639
00:31:26,510 --> 00:31:30,097
We had an American c-141.

640
00:31:31,765 --> 00:31:33,433
All the companies,
their families,

641
00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:36,103
abc, nbc, CBS.

642
00:31:36,186 --> 00:31:38,230
A lot of people in the airplane.

643
00:31:39,189 --> 00:31:42,359
When my plane landed
in the Philippines,

644
00:31:42,442 --> 00:31:43,610
I learned we lost.

645
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,071
I thought,
I don't think I'm coming back.

646
00:31:47,406 --> 00:31:49,616
[Narrator] After brief stops
at refugee camps

647
00:31:49,699 --> 00:31:51,576
in Guam and San Diego,

648
00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:55,080
and a temporary reassignment
to the ap's Tokyo bureau,

649
00:31:55,705 --> 00:31:58,333
Nick was given a choice
of his next assignment.

650
00:31:58,417 --> 00:32:00,520
[Nick] My boss says, Nicky, "you
want to go move somewhere?"

651
00:32:00,544 --> 00:32:01,962
"We'll give you two choices.

652
00:32:02,045 --> 00:32:04,965
Washington DC or Los Angeles."

653
00:32:05,048 --> 00:32:07,050
I said, "my god,
I want to go to Hollywood."

654
00:32:07,134 --> 00:32:09,219
[Electric guitar music playing]

655
00:32:09,302 --> 00:32:10,762
[Narrator] Nick would soon learn

656
00:32:10,846 --> 00:32:12,764
that the assignments
in Los Angeles

657
00:32:12,848 --> 00:32:15,725
were quite a bit different
than in Vietnam.

658
00:32:15,809 --> 00:32:18,186
[Nick] When I came to la,
my picture editor said, "Nicky,

659
00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:19,813
I want to send you
on an assignment."

660
00:32:19,896 --> 00:32:21,565
I asked him,
"what's the assignment?"

661
00:32:21,648 --> 00:32:23,024
"Baseball, Nicky!"

662
00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:24,734
"I want you
to go cover the angels."

663
00:32:24,818 --> 00:32:26,403
I said,
"where is the assignment?"

664
00:32:26,486 --> 00:32:29,865
He said, "you have to drive to
orange county, anaheim stadium."

665
00:32:29,948 --> 00:32:31,032
That's a long drive.

666
00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:34,286
I come out
and set up my 600 lens.

667
00:32:36,746 --> 00:32:38,999
I look at the guy next to me.
Click, click, click.

668
00:32:39,082 --> 00:32:41,209
I said,
"what picture did he shoot?"

669
00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:42,544
I didn't shoot anything.

670
00:32:42,627 --> 00:32:44,105
I say, "what did that guy
shoot pictures for?"

671
00:32:44,129 --> 00:32:45,589
He just thought
who are these people

672
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:48,550
just running around these...
Probably didn't even know

673
00:32:48,633 --> 00:32:50,093
what bases were, but he just saw

674
00:32:50,177 --> 00:32:52,053
this running around.
He didn't have a clue.

675
00:32:52,137 --> 00:32:54,848
Why are the guys
running around all the time?

676
00:32:54,931 --> 00:32:56,600
Fucking look
like viet cong running.

677
00:32:56,683 --> 00:32:58,393
[Mark] He sees what the other
photographers

678
00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:00,020
are doing in the photo well.

679
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:01,771
He says, okay,
they're hanging out

680
00:33:01,855 --> 00:33:05,233
looking at that, that little
white bag in the middle.

681
00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:07,235
Uh, trying to get that. Why?

682
00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,488
I was so nervous.

683
00:33:09,571 --> 00:33:12,824
I sat through four,
five innings, I have nothing.

684
00:33:12,908 --> 00:33:15,452
[Narrator] Unfortunately,
Nick had to head back

685
00:33:15,535 --> 00:33:17,204
to the office empty-handed.

686
00:33:17,287 --> 00:33:19,789
[Nick] I bring my film back
to la. My boss said, "Nicky,"

687
00:33:19,873 --> 00:33:21,458
you have good pictures
of the angels?"

688
00:33:21,541 --> 00:33:23,227
I said, "what do you mean good
picture? I don't have nothing."

689
00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:25,545
He looked at me, angry,
and said,

690
00:33:25,629 --> 00:33:27,023
"you don't have a picture?
Are you kidding?"

691
00:33:27,047 --> 00:33:28,340
I said, "I don't have a shot.

692
00:33:28,423 --> 00:33:30,008
Every guy is running everywhere.

693
00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:31,718
I'm very sorry
I don't have a picture."

694
00:33:34,513 --> 00:33:37,015
[Narrator] Forty years
after that first assignment,

695
00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:40,060
Nick has been invited back
to angels stadium.

696
00:33:40,143 --> 00:33:42,854
But this time
as an honored guest.

697
00:33:43,522 --> 00:33:47,067
They've asked him to return
to where his la career began

698
00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:49,319
to throw out the first pitch.

699
00:33:49,402 --> 00:33:51,988
[Nick] I covered baseball
many, many, many years.

700
00:33:52,072 --> 00:33:53,406
Mostly they allow, like,

701
00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:54,908
the mayor, the governor,

702
00:33:54,991 --> 00:33:56,535
or the Hollywood people.

703
00:33:56,618 --> 00:33:58,537
I didn't believe they allowed
photographers

704
00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:00,288
to throw the first pitch.

705
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:03,333
I was nervous, a little bit,
but I'm so happy.

706
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,710
Mike scioscia,
the manager of the angels,

707
00:34:05,794 --> 00:34:07,855
came to say hello to me.
I said, "I took your picture

708
00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:09,422
many times, I know you so well."

709
00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:13,343
[Announcer] On your feet.
Let's play ball.

710
00:34:16,012 --> 00:34:17,472
[Cheering]

711
00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:18,682
A solid effort,

712
00:34:18,765 --> 00:34:20,767
- ladies and gentlemen.
- Thank you!

713
00:34:20,850 --> 00:34:23,144
When I threw the ball,
I felt special.

714
00:34:23,228 --> 00:34:24,980
I really enjoyed
that day so much.

715
00:34:26,273 --> 00:34:28,316
Now I'm a big fan of the angels.

716
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,777
[Announcer] Give a big hand
for Nick ut.

717
00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:32,445
[Crowd cheering]

718
00:34:48,253 --> 00:34:50,273
[Nick] Hey, Richard, what's
the afternoon assignment?

719
00:34:50,297 --> 00:34:52,549
[Richard] Let's go back
to the federal court

720
00:34:52,632 --> 00:34:55,677
and see if you can get
Lee baca coming out.

721
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,012
Okay. I'll be there.

722
00:34:58,722 --> 00:35:00,890
[Narrator] Former la
county sheriff, Lee baca,

723
00:35:00,974 --> 00:35:04,769
is on trial for conspiracy
and obstruction of justice.

724
00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:09,107
If convicted, he faces
up to 20 years in prison.

725
00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:11,568
[Nick] That's a big
local story here in la

726
00:35:11,651 --> 00:35:13,153
and we have to cover him.

727
00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:15,905
Many people are asking
why he's not in jail.

728
00:35:15,989 --> 00:35:18,992
You know, I think after 40 years
I must be a lawyer.

729
00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:22,203
I shot so many people in trouble
in every court I covered in la.

730
00:35:23,246 --> 00:35:26,207
[Narrator] A perp walk photo
may not be the Hollywood ending

731
00:35:26,291 --> 00:35:27,417
Nick is looking for.

732
00:35:28,209 --> 00:35:30,211
But it's all part of the job.

733
00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:32,422
So he makes his way
to the Los Angeles

734
00:35:32,505 --> 00:35:33,965
federal courthouse

735
00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:36,343
where he'll have to play
the waiting game.

736
00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:39,095
[Mark] Nick is always early
and ready to go.

737
00:35:39,179 --> 00:35:40,805
Anybody who's ever met him
for dim-sum,

738
00:35:40,889 --> 00:35:43,558
he's already eating by the time
he said hey, let's meet at 11.

739
00:35:43,642 --> 00:35:44,768
That's just Nick.

740
00:35:44,851 --> 00:35:46,853
But that's part of his success.

741
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:48,897
He's there,
he's ready to go beforehand.

742
00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:50,899
And often things happen
earlier than expected

743
00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:51,982
and he gets it.

744
00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:55,362
[Narrator] Nick has been
showing up early

745
00:35:55,445 --> 00:35:57,155
at Los Angeles courthouses

746
00:35:57,238 --> 00:36:00,950
for high-profile cases
for more than four decades.

747
00:36:03,161 --> 00:36:06,289
His inaugural effort
was Roman polanski's trial

748
00:36:06,373 --> 00:36:09,417
for a sex crime
with a 13-year old girl.

749
00:36:10,418 --> 00:36:13,838
Followed by a third trial
for Charles manson cult member,

750
00:36:13,922 --> 00:36:15,382
Leslie Van houten.

751
00:36:16,257 --> 00:36:19,344
He quickly became
the ap's go-to shooter

752
00:36:19,427 --> 00:36:23,181
for la's endless parade
of sensationalist/c,

753
00:36:23,264 --> 00:36:25,183
real-life courtroom dramas.

754
00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:27,268
I think that the public
does have an interest

755
00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:30,188
in seeing these cases.
And yes, I know we can say

756
00:36:30,271 --> 00:36:32,315
that some of it is voyeuristic,

757
00:36:32,399 --> 00:36:35,318
and not necessarily the most
high-minded interests,

758
00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:37,821
it doesn't matter.
Because at the end of the day,

759
00:36:37,904 --> 00:36:39,864
the ability of the public
to see inside courtroom,

760
00:36:39,948 --> 00:36:42,659
see how justice is administered,
is most important of all.

761
00:36:42,742 --> 00:36:44,452
So there needs to be
transparency.

762
00:36:44,536 --> 00:36:46,788
And you can't have transparency
behind closed doors.

763
00:36:49,207 --> 00:36:52,252
[Narrator] No trial Nick covered
drew more attention

764
00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:54,838
than the one that started
with this infamous

765
00:36:54,921 --> 00:36:58,216
freeway pursuit
of a white bronco.

766
00:36:58,299 --> 00:37:01,052
[Reporter] According to chp,
the person fleeing

767
00:37:01,136 --> 00:37:03,304
in the white bronco,
is oj Simpson.

768
00:37:05,098 --> 00:37:07,142
[Narrator] The oj Simpson
murder trial,

769
00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:09,144
which he covered
from gavel to gavel,

770
00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:11,896
in 1994 and '95.

771
00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:14,774
[Marcia] So I know Nick went
from Vietnam to the courtroom

772
00:37:14,858 --> 00:37:17,068
in the Simpson case,
but they're both war zones.

773
00:37:17,152 --> 00:37:19,320
We have seen the sanctimonious,

774
00:37:19,404 --> 00:37:21,531
pious posturing
by the prosecution.

775
00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:23,217
What kind of honor
do we have on that side?

776
00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:25,136
- [Judge] Councilor, wait, wait.
- When we recessed yesterday

777
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,887
they said they didn't care
and it was no big deal.

778
00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:29,372
I guess one definitely gave him
experience for the other.

779
00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:30,707
Where did you go?

780
00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:33,168
After you reached that first
gated area?

781
00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:34,836
So what happens is in a big case

782
00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:36,880
with all kinds
of media attention to it,

783
00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:39,716
there's a whole ton
of photographers.

784
00:37:39,799 --> 00:37:41,718
Some are amateur,
some are professional.

785
00:37:41,801 --> 00:37:43,344
I mean, it becomes a mob scene.

786
00:37:47,098 --> 00:37:48,933
And then it becomes
a competition

787
00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:49,893
for the best shot.

788
00:37:49,976 --> 00:37:51,186
The most unique shot.

789
00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:52,937
And that's really hard to do.

790
00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:55,315
Number one, they're going to be
all of them restrained

791
00:37:55,398 --> 00:37:56,649
by security.

792
00:37:56,733 --> 00:37:58,401
If not security
just for the courthouse,

793
00:37:58,485 --> 00:38:00,862
security for the defendant
himself, his lawyers.

794
00:38:00,945 --> 00:38:03,031
It gets harder and harder
to get to them.

795
00:38:03,114 --> 00:38:04,616
Then it becomes a question of

796
00:38:04,699 --> 00:38:06,618
the photographer
knowing how to schmooze.

797
00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:08,328
And how to get close
to somebody.

798
00:38:08,411 --> 00:38:10,413
How to make nice
with the defense attorneys.

799
00:38:10,497 --> 00:38:12,373
To get in
and get those special shots

800
00:38:12,457 --> 00:38:13,625
that no one else can get.

801
00:38:14,459 --> 00:38:16,377
We have a camera
in the courtroom...

802
00:38:16,461 --> 00:38:18,546
[Narrator] Taking photos
at the oj trial

803
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:20,298
was particularly difficult.

804
00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:21,758
[Judge] Attorneys
from both sides

805
00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:23,843
have referred to
what other people

806
00:38:23,927 --> 00:38:25,345
around this country may think.

807
00:38:27,764 --> 00:38:30,099
That causes me to believe
that the lawyers are pandering

808
00:38:30,183 --> 00:38:32,143
to the cameras.
And that's caused me to believe

809
00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:34,854
that, probably, I have to
pull the plug on the cameras.

810
00:38:34,938 --> 00:38:37,315
[Narrator] Judge Lance ito
severely limited

811
00:38:37,398 --> 00:38:39,609
camera access to his courtroom.

812
00:38:39,692 --> 00:38:42,487
But that didn't stop Nick
from making sure

813
00:38:42,570 --> 00:38:44,823
he was in the right place
at the right time.

814
00:38:44,906 --> 00:38:46,282
[Nick] I covered oj

815
00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:48,326
almost every day
in the courthouse.

816
00:38:49,202 --> 00:38:51,955
I know every lawyer.
Johnny Cochran.

817
00:38:52,038 --> 00:38:53,998
All the famous lawyers,
I know very well.

818
00:38:54,082 --> 00:38:55,082
They help me a lot.

819
00:38:56,376 --> 00:38:59,462
In the second trial of oj,
I covered for almost two years.

820
00:38:59,546 --> 00:39:00,880
Every, every day.

821
00:39:00,964 --> 00:39:04,008
Before the verdict,
oj's former wife's family

822
00:39:04,092 --> 00:39:06,010
said, "I want Nicky to cover."

823
00:39:06,094 --> 00:39:09,180
They didn't allow
any photographer, only me.

824
00:39:09,264 --> 00:39:10,849
When they won the verdict,

825
00:39:10,932 --> 00:39:13,643
I had a picture
on the front page everywhere.

826
00:39:13,726 --> 00:39:15,395
There is something about Nick,

827
00:39:15,478 --> 00:39:17,438
whether you're every man

828
00:39:17,522 --> 00:39:19,107
or you're a celebrity,

829
00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:20,859
that's very disarming.

830
00:39:20,942 --> 00:39:22,193
He just puts you at ease.

831
00:39:22,986 --> 00:39:25,446
It's very easy to see
why even somebody

832
00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:27,407
who is on guard and famous

833
00:39:27,490 --> 00:39:29,701
would drop their guard
for someone like Nick.

834
00:39:31,244 --> 00:39:32,829
[Marcia] Nick
has a very special knack

835
00:39:32,912 --> 00:39:35,123
for getting that amazing shot

836
00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:38,293
by knowing just how to work
the personalities involved.

837
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:39,878
There's something about him,
I'm sure,

838
00:39:39,961 --> 00:39:41,671
because he gets these shots
all the time.

839
00:39:41,754 --> 00:39:43,464
He gets some of the best
I've ever seen.

840
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:45,592
All these mood shots,
these personal shots,

841
00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:46,759
these close in shots,

842
00:39:46,843 --> 00:39:48,043
that no one else seems to get.

843
00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:48,928
It's kind of amazing.

844
00:39:49,012 --> 00:39:50,513
So you know he's got some voodoo

845
00:39:50,597 --> 00:39:51,931
that he do so well.

846
00:39:53,933 --> 00:39:55,977
[Narrator] Many of Nick's
courtroom assignments

847
00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:59,230
involved clients of legendary
civil rights attorney,

848
00:39:59,314 --> 00:40:00,565
Gloria allred,

849
00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:02,233
who understands the importance

850
00:40:02,317 --> 00:40:03,526
of presenting her cases

851
00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:05,987
to the press and the public.

852
00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:07,488
[Gloria] Nick is a pro.

853
00:40:07,572 --> 00:40:08,781
There's no one who's close,

854
00:40:09,908 --> 00:40:11,409
as far as I'm concerned,

855
00:40:11,492 --> 00:40:14,704
to his talent, to his eye

856
00:40:14,787 --> 00:40:16,956
for the right photograph.

857
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,625
He's always very courteous.

858
00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:21,628
And I know he's just
going to do his very best.

859
00:40:21,711 --> 00:40:22,962
And his best is gonna be

860
00:40:23,046 --> 00:40:24,631
a lot better than anyone else's.

861
00:40:25,715 --> 00:40:27,842
[Narrator] But in trying
to do his best,

862
00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:29,844
the photographer
has occasionally

863
00:40:29,928 --> 00:40:31,846
become the subject.

864
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:34,015
Recently I had
a press conference.

865
00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:36,851
Today we're here
on international women's day

866
00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:39,520
to speak out
about the victimization

867
00:40:39,604 --> 00:40:44,108
and the denigration of many
female United States marines.

868
00:40:44,192 --> 00:40:45,610
What I didn't know is,
in the middle

869
00:40:45,693 --> 00:40:48,071
of the press conference,
Nick ran behind me

870
00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:50,949
and passed my clients
to get a shot.

871
00:40:51,032 --> 00:40:52,659
I didn't know that,
so I think I watched

872
00:40:52,742 --> 00:40:54,243
the 5:00 news or 6:00 news.

873
00:40:54,327 --> 00:40:55,954
Found to have violated...

874
00:40:56,037 --> 00:40:58,957
It was almost like a streaker
running by.

875
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,960
What was that? It's a bird,
it's a plane. It's Nick ut.

876
00:41:02,043 --> 00:41:04,921
General Miller made a statement
acknowledging

877
00:41:05,004 --> 00:41:06,339
the sensitive issue at hand.

878
00:41:06,422 --> 00:41:09,550
And if anyone else did it,
I would be very angry.

879
00:41:10,593 --> 00:41:12,637
I'm very happy that this case

880
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:14,973
has now received

881
00:41:15,056 --> 00:41:17,392
new and close scrutiny.

882
00:41:19,227 --> 00:41:21,980
[Narrator] Despite
the occasional photo bomb,

883
00:41:22,063 --> 00:41:24,440
Nick has mostly
stayed in the background.

884
00:41:24,524 --> 00:41:27,694
Capturing allred's
emotionally-charged cases

885
00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:29,487
with a delicate touch.

886
00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:32,573
[Gloria] Nick has been able
to capture

887
00:41:32,657 --> 00:41:35,827
victims of injustice
as they remembered

888
00:41:35,910 --> 00:41:37,829
what they say happened to them.

889
00:41:37,912 --> 00:41:40,456
They sometimes
broke out in tears.

890
00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:43,251
You could just see
the emotion in their face.

891
00:41:43,334 --> 00:41:46,504
None of that was planned,
just happened in the moment.

892
00:41:46,587 --> 00:41:48,381
And Nick knew how to capture it.

893
00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:53,845
[Narrator] But none of Nick's
photos on the legal beat

894
00:41:53,928 --> 00:41:55,680
would draw as much attention

895
00:41:55,763 --> 00:41:59,100
as the one he shot
on June 8th, 2007.

896
00:41:59,892 --> 00:42:01,686
[Reporter] Paris is back in.

897
00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:04,063
A judge has ordered
Paris Hilton back to jail

898
00:42:04,147 --> 00:42:07,817
to serve out her full
45-day sentence behind bars.

899
00:42:08,735 --> 00:42:11,863
My editor said, "Nicky, I want
you to go to west Hollywood."

900
00:42:11,946 --> 00:42:13,197
"Cover Paris Hilton in jail."

901
00:42:13,906 --> 00:42:15,908
Then I went there,
parked my car,

902
00:42:15,992 --> 00:42:17,785
I see like three
or four hundred people.

903
00:42:17,869 --> 00:42:19,203
I'm a short guy.

904
00:42:19,287 --> 00:42:20,872
I said no way
I'll get a picture.

905
00:42:20,955 --> 00:42:22,832
No way. Too many people.

906
00:42:22,915 --> 00:42:23,958
I need you to get back.

907
00:42:24,042 --> 00:42:25,960
[Nick] I'm lucky,
all the TV cameramen

908
00:42:26,044 --> 00:42:27,336
are all my friends.

909
00:42:27,420 --> 00:42:28,713
Every time I go somewhere,

910
00:42:28,796 --> 00:42:30,590
the TV cameramen say,
"Nick, come here."

911
00:42:32,175 --> 00:42:34,802
First I saw the father
and mother of Paris Hilton

912
00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:36,220
standing near the entrance door.

913
00:42:37,180 --> 00:42:40,391
Before the car passed,
they stopped for one second.

914
00:42:40,475 --> 00:42:42,351
Right where I'm standing.
Bang, bang.

915
00:42:42,435 --> 00:42:44,020
[Man] Fly high, freebird!

916
00:42:44,103 --> 00:42:46,481
My battery got no charge,
I didn't know I had a picture.

917
00:42:47,190 --> 00:42:51,069
Then I gave my card
to one of the ap photographers

918
00:42:51,152 --> 00:42:52,278
to move my picture.

919
00:42:52,361 --> 00:42:54,739
I go to see
Paris Hilton in jail.

920
00:42:54,822 --> 00:42:56,949
I parked my car,
and la times photographer,

921
00:42:57,033 --> 00:42:58,534
Lori shepler, says, "Nicky,

922
00:42:58,618 --> 00:42:59,803
you had a good picture
of Paris Hilton."

923
00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:02,330
I said, "are you kidding?
No way."

924
00:43:02,413 --> 00:43:03,414
I stood at the window.

925
00:43:03,498 --> 00:43:05,124
I didn't believe
I had a picture.

926
00:43:05,208 --> 00:43:07,293
And CNN run the story
right away.

927
00:43:07,376 --> 00:43:08,896
"The man that took the
picture of napalm

928
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,272
today took a picture
of Paris Hilton in jail."

929
00:43:10,296 --> 00:43:11,172
I said, "what?"

930
00:43:11,255 --> 00:43:12,632
[Reporter] But Friday June 8

931
00:43:12,715 --> 00:43:13,966
was no ordinary day in la

932
00:43:14,050 --> 00:43:16,177
and no ordinary day for Nick.

933
00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:18,221
Paris Hilton
was going back to jail

934
00:43:18,304 --> 00:43:19,555
and Nick ut was on the scene.

935
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:21,182
[Nick] You see
good morning america,

936
00:43:21,265 --> 00:43:23,601
nbc news, everyone
covered my story.

937
00:43:23,684 --> 00:43:25,645
[Reporter] For Nick ut
is was an important day

938
00:43:25,728 --> 00:43:26,771
for another reason.

939
00:43:26,854 --> 00:43:29,690
It was 35 years ago, to the day,

940
00:43:29,774 --> 00:43:33,027
that he captured this image,
also seen around the world.

941
00:43:33,111 --> 00:43:35,113
Nick was a much younger
ap photographer

942
00:43:35,196 --> 00:43:37,740
working in his native Vietnam
during the war there,

943
00:43:37,824 --> 00:43:41,494
when he took the photo
on June 8, 1972.

944
00:43:42,703 --> 00:43:47,375
I really remember
seeing that Paris Hilton picture

945
00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:50,128
when she's in the car
and has to go back to jail

946
00:43:50,211 --> 00:43:53,464
and seeing Nick's name on it.
And then I looked at the date

947
00:43:55,508 --> 00:43:57,760
I thought, that's kind of when
trang bang was.

948
00:43:57,844 --> 00:43:59,303
And I went back
and I looked it up

949
00:43:59,387 --> 00:44:00,930
and I said my god,
it's the same...

950
00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:03,182
The same date.
That's, like, unbelievable.

951
00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:07,061
[Narrator] And just like
his relationship with Kim phijc,

952
00:44:07,145 --> 00:44:09,564
after the press frenzy subsided,

953
00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:12,650
Nick and Paris became friends.

954
00:44:12,733 --> 00:44:16,571
Hey, Nick, just wanted to say
congratulations on 50 years.

955
00:44:16,654 --> 00:44:17,864
That's amazing.

956
00:44:17,947 --> 00:44:20,158
Hope that you enjoy
your retirement.

957
00:44:20,241 --> 00:44:22,702
Just wanted to say hello
and I love you.

958
00:44:22,785 --> 00:44:24,036
And sending lots of love.

959
00:44:27,248 --> 00:44:28,433
[Narrator] Back
at the courthouse

960
00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:29,667
it's now hours later

961
00:44:29,750 --> 00:44:31,544
and sheriff Lee baca,

962
00:44:31,627 --> 00:44:33,462
Nick's target for the day,

963
00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:36,257
still has not emerged.

964
00:44:36,340 --> 00:44:38,176
[Richard] I mean, to be able to

965
00:44:38,259 --> 00:44:40,636
go out over and over
and over again

966
00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:43,890
and go stand behind police lines

967
00:44:43,973 --> 00:44:46,017
and wait at airports for hours,

968
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:47,852
a lot of the job is waiting.

969
00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:51,147
Waiting hours upon hours
to get the picture.

970
00:44:51,731 --> 00:44:53,941
I mean, not many people
can do that.

971
00:44:54,025 --> 00:44:56,110
[Narrator] After six hours
of waiting

972
00:44:56,194 --> 00:44:59,071
Nick's Patience
finally pays off.

973
00:44:59,655 --> 00:45:01,407
[Nick] A lot of waiting.
Crazy job.

974
00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:03,284
Sometime all day
for just one picture.

975
00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:11,894
[Narrator] When he isn't
staking out

976
00:45:11,918 --> 00:45:13,961
the downtown la courthouses,

977
00:45:14,045 --> 00:45:17,215
Nick can often be found
in the surrounding suburbs

978
00:45:17,298 --> 00:45:19,175
where more often than not

979
00:45:19,258 --> 00:45:21,886
something is on fire.

980
00:45:21,969 --> 00:45:24,847
And usually Nick gets a call
to shoot it.

981
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:29,602
[Stephen] Here in the city
of Los Angeles we have drought

982
00:45:29,685 --> 00:45:31,312
and weather-driven events.

983
00:45:31,395 --> 00:45:33,481
We have a phenomena
in southern California

984
00:45:33,564 --> 00:45:35,149
called the Santa Ana winds.

985
00:45:35,233 --> 00:45:36,817
And when they start to blow

986
00:45:36,901 --> 00:45:39,612
all attention goes
on your fire service providers

987
00:45:39,695 --> 00:45:42,406
because we know with
40, 50 mile an hour winds

988
00:45:42,990 --> 00:45:45,493
with the brush
starting to get dry,

989
00:45:45,576 --> 00:45:47,203
it's not a matter of if,

990
00:45:47,286 --> 00:45:48,579
it's just a matter of when

991
00:45:48,663 --> 00:45:50,206
these brush fires
will break out.

992
00:45:51,540 --> 00:45:54,043
Nick ut is no stranger
to danger.

993
00:45:54,669 --> 00:45:56,754
Nick has to be
right in the middle of it.

994
00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:58,214
So he's right there with us

995
00:45:58,297 --> 00:46:00,675
capturing what others
cannot capture.

996
00:46:03,970 --> 00:46:06,555
[Nick] Every year I cover
so many wildfires.

997
00:46:07,181 --> 00:46:09,725
A ton of fires everywhere
from here to San Diego.

998
00:46:09,809 --> 00:46:11,269
There's more fire right there.

999
00:46:12,645 --> 00:46:13,896
[Firefighter] Too far away.

1000
00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:15,648
Fire is so dangerous.

1001
00:46:15,731 --> 00:46:17,441
My car almost burned many times

1002
00:46:17,525 --> 00:46:18,651
because it was too close.

1003
00:46:18,734 --> 00:46:20,254
The fire comes right up
to your vehicle

1004
00:46:20,278 --> 00:46:21,404
and you have to run.

1005
00:46:21,487 --> 00:46:23,656
[Helicopter blades whirring]

1006
00:46:24,907 --> 00:46:27,493
[Camera shutter clicking]

1007
00:46:30,830 --> 00:46:33,749
[Narrator] Many of the crew
from northwich fire station 60

1008
00:46:33,833 --> 00:46:36,127
know Nick from his work
in the field.

1009
00:46:36,210 --> 00:46:38,379
And with his last day
drawing nearer,

1010
00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:41,173
they have invited him
to visit their station.

1011
00:46:41,257 --> 00:46:43,801
- No more covering fires here.
- That's a wrap.

1012
00:46:43,884 --> 00:46:45,845
I won't see you all the time.

1013
00:46:45,928 --> 00:46:47,072
[Stephen] And Nick
is a hero to me

1014
00:46:47,096 --> 00:46:48,723
because he's always right there

1015
00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:49,974
telling our story.

1016
00:46:50,057 --> 00:46:51,451
And that's more valuable
than anything

1017
00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:52,977
I can ever imagine.

1018
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,270
His pictures put our work

1019
00:46:54,353 --> 00:46:56,355
in front of the eyes of america.

1020
00:46:56,439 --> 00:46:58,441
We worked together
for many, many years.

1021
00:46:58,524 --> 00:47:00,067
Every time Stephen would say,

1022
00:47:00,151 --> 00:47:01,694
"Nick, I want you
to come with me.

1023
00:47:01,777 --> 00:47:03,279
I'll show you exactly where."

1024
00:47:10,036 --> 00:47:11,704
[Mark] When Nick
is covering fires

1025
00:47:11,787 --> 00:47:14,373
he's looking
for that extra element.

1026
00:47:14,457 --> 00:47:17,209
Like a helicopter
flying in front of the sun

1027
00:47:17,293 --> 00:47:20,087
with the sun diffused
by the smoke of the fire.

1028
00:47:20,171 --> 00:47:23,549
Actually, that shot reminded him
of his coverage in Vietnam.

1029
00:47:23,632 --> 00:47:25,593
And Nick looks
for that sort of thing.

1030
00:47:25,676 --> 00:47:28,179
My eye is always looking
like a war picture.

1031
00:47:28,262 --> 00:47:30,056
That's why, on every assignment,

1032
00:47:30,139 --> 00:47:31,974
my eye sees that war.

1033
00:47:32,058 --> 00:47:34,852
Like fire burning like napalm.

1034
00:47:34,935 --> 00:47:36,187
Black smoke like bomb.

1035
00:47:37,897 --> 00:47:41,067
And then one I'm thinking about,
um, by Nick,

1036
00:47:41,150 --> 00:47:43,110
was a fast check jet

1037
00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:46,489
floating across the tops
of Santa clarita hillsides

1038
00:47:46,572 --> 00:47:49,200
dropping
that fire-resistant chemical.

1039
00:47:49,283 --> 00:47:50,534
He got a beautiful picture

1040
00:47:50,618 --> 00:47:53,496
of it just absolutely
suspended in air.

1041
00:47:53,579 --> 00:47:55,956
Heavy, multi-engine aircraft

1042
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,376
just floating
across the skyline there

1043
00:47:58,459 --> 00:47:59,960
dropping protective chemical.

1044
00:48:04,673 --> 00:48:06,550
[Narrator] But one of Nick's
most famous shots

1045
00:48:06,634 --> 00:48:07,760
of the fire department

1046
00:48:07,843 --> 00:48:09,387
is not so flattering.

1047
00:48:10,137 --> 00:48:11,531
[Stephen] Firefighters
were responding

1048
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:12,765
to a water main issue

1049
00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:15,559
in a small neighborhood
in north Hollywood.

1050
00:48:16,936 --> 00:48:19,688
The captain turned the corner
and he couldn't see down

1051
00:48:19,772 --> 00:48:21,941
the long length of street.

1052
00:48:22,024 --> 00:48:25,528
Um, he had a funny feeling
that something was not right.

1053
00:48:25,611 --> 00:48:30,074
The whole street just collapsed
and engulfed the fire engine.

1054
00:48:30,157 --> 00:48:32,868
Just went into a sinkhole
from the undermining

1055
00:48:32,952 --> 00:48:34,787
of this water damage
that was done.

1056
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:37,915
A fireman, uh, seemingly,

1057
00:48:37,998 --> 00:48:40,418
it looks like he's lifting up
a firetruck

1058
00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:42,920
that had tipped into a hole.

1059
00:48:43,003 --> 00:48:45,172
And just Nick saw this angle
and got that.

1060
00:48:49,885 --> 00:48:51,196
[Narrator] Nick's
wildfire coverage

1061
00:48:51,220 --> 00:48:52,513
put him in harm's way

1062
00:48:52,596 --> 00:48:54,223
time and time again.

1063
00:48:54,306 --> 00:48:56,559
But no assignment
brought back memories

1064
00:48:56,642 --> 00:48:58,269
of his wartime experience

1065
00:48:58,352 --> 00:49:02,106
more than
the 1992 Los Angeles riots

1066
00:49:02,189 --> 00:49:03,899
that resulted from the acquittal

1067
00:49:03,983 --> 00:49:05,693
of three police officers

1068
00:49:05,776 --> 00:49:08,446
charged
with beating Rodney king.

1069
00:49:08,529 --> 00:49:10,656
Back him up. Back up!

1070
00:49:10,739 --> 00:49:11,991
Back him up!

1071
00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:13,826
[Nick] I had trouble
during Rodney king

1072
00:49:13,909 --> 00:49:14,785
in central la.

1073
00:49:14,869 --> 00:49:15,995
I covered the first day.

1074
00:49:16,078 --> 00:49:17,288
It burned everywhere.

1075
00:49:17,371 --> 00:49:20,040
You see the black smoke,
like war.

1076
00:49:20,124 --> 00:49:23,002
I went to Florence street
in central la.

1077
00:49:23,085 --> 00:49:25,296
One man holding a shotgun
wanted to shoot me.

1078
00:49:25,379 --> 00:49:27,590
He said, "I hate Koreans."

1079
00:49:27,673 --> 00:49:30,509
I told him, "I'm not Korean.
I'm sorry, I'm not Korean."

1080
00:49:30,593 --> 00:49:32,970
Then he said,
"I hate Asian people."

1081
00:49:33,053 --> 00:49:35,306
I said I don't wanna deal
with this guy.

1082
00:49:35,389 --> 00:49:36,432
I'd better walk away.

1083
00:49:37,141 --> 00:49:38,461
[Narrator] The Rodney king
verdict

1084
00:49:38,517 --> 00:49:39,685
touched off a powder keg

1085
00:49:39,768 --> 00:49:41,520
of pent-up racial tension.

1086
00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:47,651
Exploding in wide-set violence,
looting, and arson.

1087
00:49:47,735 --> 00:49:49,612
The national guard was called in

1088
00:49:49,695 --> 00:49:51,197
to help quell the conflict.

1089
00:49:51,822 --> 00:49:53,342
[Nick] When the national guard
came in,

1090
00:49:53,407 --> 00:49:55,034
I walked
with the national guard.

1091
00:49:55,117 --> 00:49:58,120
But it was very dangerous
for two days in central la.

1092
00:49:59,121 --> 00:50:01,665
[Stephen] The media
faced the same problems

1093
00:50:01,749 --> 00:50:03,167
that we as firefighters did.

1094
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:05,294
We're going into neighborhoods

1095
00:50:05,377 --> 00:50:07,796
uh, where there were
massive fires.

1096
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,049
Nick was probably
right in the midst of them,

1097
00:50:10,132 --> 00:50:12,301
but we had no protection
till later.

1098
00:50:12,384 --> 00:50:15,095
Till the police department
was able to dedicate

1099
00:50:15,179 --> 00:50:17,973
California highway patrol
escorting firefighters

1100
00:50:18,057 --> 00:50:19,057
into these areas.

1101
00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:25,856
[Crowd] No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!

1102
00:50:25,940 --> 00:50:27,900
[Narrator] Despite the danger
and chaos,

1103
00:50:27,983 --> 00:50:30,653
Nick captured some
of his most memorable shots

1104
00:50:30,736 --> 00:50:33,781
during the initial hours
of the civil unrest.

1105
00:50:33,864 --> 00:50:36,283
Including
this unforgettable image

1106
00:50:36,367 --> 00:50:37,910
of protester Mark Craig

1107
00:50:37,993 --> 00:50:39,495
whose peace sign shirt,

1108
00:50:39,578 --> 00:50:41,580
set against
the background of fire,

1109
00:50:41,664 --> 00:50:43,624
made for an iconic image

1110
00:50:43,707 --> 00:50:45,793
of this tumultuous time.

1111
00:50:45,876 --> 00:50:47,336
I'd just finished, you know,

1112
00:50:47,419 --> 00:50:48,730
the previous year
of serving in war

1113
00:50:48,754 --> 00:50:50,756
in operation desert shield
in desert storm.

1114
00:50:50,839 --> 00:50:53,342
And I was a freshman in college.
And after seeing the verdict,

1115
00:50:53,425 --> 00:50:56,053
it just outraged me that
it was on videotape

1116
00:50:56,136 --> 00:50:58,138
and the officer
was still found innocent.

1117
00:50:58,222 --> 00:51:00,492
So me and some of my friends
wanted to come down and protest.

1118
00:51:00,516 --> 00:51:02,685
We didn't know quite where
we were going to protest,

1119
00:51:02,768 --> 00:51:05,187
but we wanted to come down
to downtown Los Angeles.

1120
00:51:07,481 --> 00:51:09,233
We drove past
police headquarters

1121
00:51:09,316 --> 00:51:11,652
and it was, like,
this is where we need to be at.

1122
00:51:12,528 --> 00:51:14,029
[Narrator] Twenty-five years
later

1123
00:51:14,113 --> 00:51:16,991
photographer and subject,
who had never met,

1124
00:51:17,074 --> 00:51:19,493
agreed to get together
in downtown la

1125
00:51:19,577 --> 00:51:21,495
where it all began.

1126
00:51:21,579 --> 00:51:23,289
It's been many years.

1127
00:51:23,956 --> 00:51:25,836
[Mark] I always wanted
to meet you and thank you

1128
00:51:25,916 --> 00:51:27,835
for, you know,
taking that picture of me.

1129
00:51:27,918 --> 00:51:31,589
I rememberthat day.
So many people were out here.

1130
00:51:31,672 --> 00:51:33,024
I didn't know
where I was coming to.

1131
00:51:33,048 --> 00:51:34,717
I just came
to downtown Los Angeles

1132
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,176
and I got off
at Los Angeles street

1133
00:51:36,260 --> 00:51:37,362
and I walked down this street

1134
00:51:37,386 --> 00:51:38,572
and I saw all the people here.

1135
00:51:38,596 --> 00:51:41,140
And it had to be
in this area here.

1136
00:51:41,223 --> 00:51:43,058
[Nick] Yeah,
they do everything here.

1137
00:51:46,770 --> 00:51:48,981
[Mark] As the night grew on
more and more people

1138
00:51:49,064 --> 00:51:50,691
started to show up.
It came to a point

1139
00:51:50,774 --> 00:51:53,152
where we outnumbered
the police officers here.

1140
00:51:53,235 --> 00:51:54,653
And there were some news vans

1141
00:51:54,737 --> 00:51:56,905
and one of them showed
the beating of Rodney king.

1142
00:51:56,989 --> 00:51:58,240
And that just enraged us.

1143
00:52:00,075 --> 00:52:01,970
I remember you were yelling
with your hands like this.

1144
00:52:01,994 --> 00:52:03,096
I remember yelling, you know,

1145
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:04,514
"we're gonna burn
Parker center down."

1146
00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:06,165
- Yeah, yeah.
- That was my intention

1147
00:52:06,248 --> 00:52:08,000
- of coming down here.
- [Nick laughs]

1148
00:52:08,083 --> 00:52:09,352
[Mark] Throughout
america's history,

1149
00:52:09,376 --> 00:52:10,878
African Americans have always

1150
00:52:10,961 --> 00:52:12,421
gone to war for this country.

1151
00:52:12,504 --> 00:52:14,024
And have always come back
and then treated

1152
00:52:14,048 --> 00:52:15,382
as second-class citizens.

1153
00:52:17,217 --> 00:52:18,594
I fell into that category.

1154
00:52:18,677 --> 00:52:20,554
And it just... it turns something

1155
00:52:20,638 --> 00:52:22,640
on the inside of you
that is hard to explain.

1156
00:52:22,723 --> 00:52:24,433
Of giving your life
for this country

1157
00:52:24,516 --> 00:52:25,869
and then coming back
and having to fight

1158
00:52:25,893 --> 00:52:27,662
for the same rights
that you were just overseas

1159
00:52:27,686 --> 00:52:28,687
fighting for.

1160
00:52:28,771 --> 00:52:30,397
So if I was willing
to go overseas

1161
00:52:30,481 --> 00:52:31,649
and die for my country,

1162
00:52:31,732 --> 00:52:33,192
then I was willing to come home

1163
00:52:33,275 --> 00:52:35,569
and fight for my own rights
here in this country.

1164
00:52:40,199 --> 00:52:41,784
- Thank you.
- All right.

1165
00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:44,036
- Wow.
- Hmm.

1166
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:45,746
- Right here?
- Everywhere you want.

1167
00:52:49,875 --> 00:52:51,418
- And the same thing?
- Yeah.

1168
00:52:51,502 --> 00:52:53,837
[Mark] So when I found out
that that photo was taken

1169
00:52:53,921 --> 00:52:55,172
by a pulitzer prize winner,

1170
00:52:55,255 --> 00:52:56,965
I was even more proud
of the picture.

1171
00:52:57,049 --> 00:52:59,510
Because the picture that he took
of the girl in Vietnam

1172
00:52:59,593 --> 00:53:02,638
some believe that changed
the consciousness of america.

1173
00:53:02,721 --> 00:53:05,432
And I feel the same way.
That the picture he took of me

1174
00:53:05,516 --> 00:53:08,227
changed the consciousness
of america and the world.

1175
00:53:08,310 --> 00:53:09,770
After that, 16 years later,
you know,

1176
00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:11,772
we had
an African-American president.

1177
00:53:11,855 --> 00:53:13,273
I kind of believe that 1992

1178
00:53:13,357 --> 00:53:15,109
was an awakening for america

1179
00:53:15,192 --> 00:53:17,820
to show that we need change
here in this country.

1180
00:53:17,903 --> 00:53:20,447
Yeah. My god, I don't believe
I got to meet you

1181
00:53:20,531 --> 00:53:22,366
twenty-five years later.
My friend.

1182
00:53:22,449 --> 00:53:24,243
- You made me famous, sir.
- Yeah.

1183
00:53:43,178 --> 00:53:45,055
[Narrator] After more
than half a century

1184
00:53:45,139 --> 00:53:46,557
at the associated press,

1185
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,601
Nick arrives for his last day
on the job.

1186
00:53:49,685 --> 00:53:51,228
His final assignment?

1187
00:53:51,311 --> 00:53:54,398
As usual, he has no idea.

1188
00:53:54,481 --> 00:53:56,066
- Hey, Nick.
- Yeah.

1189
00:53:56,150 --> 00:53:57,711
I told you I was gonna
give you the day off,

1190
00:53:57,735 --> 00:53:59,069
but this came up.

1191
00:53:59,153 --> 00:54:01,405
- Yeah?
- There's a, uh,

1192
00:54:01,488 --> 00:54:04,867
Pakistani-American
immigrant Muslim,

1193
00:54:04,950 --> 00:54:07,578
who's announcing his candidacy
for lieutenant governor

1194
00:54:07,661 --> 00:54:09,079
of California. It's at 1:00.

1195
00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:10,372
- One o'clock?
- Yeah.

1196
00:54:10,456 --> 00:54:12,142
- Okay. 1:00, yeah.
- Just over in downtown.

1197
00:54:12,166 --> 00:54:13,876
[David] Work
in a news bureau is,

1198
00:54:13,959 --> 00:54:16,462
as somebody once described war,

1199
00:54:16,545 --> 00:54:19,214
it's 99% boredom

1200
00:54:19,298 --> 00:54:21,925
and 1% sheer terror.

1201
00:54:22,009 --> 00:54:24,470
I think most bureau assignments,

1202
00:54:24,553 --> 00:54:26,096
and I worked for upi

1203
00:54:26,180 --> 00:54:28,432
out of a bureau here
in Los Angeles,

1204
00:54:28,515 --> 00:54:31,518
I would say most of what
we did was very routine.

1205
00:54:31,602 --> 00:54:35,564
There could be
a major car crash on the i-5.

1206
00:54:35,647 --> 00:54:37,858
Or it could be a candidate
running for mayor

1207
00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:40,736
whom you'd never heard of
before or since.

1208
00:54:40,819 --> 00:54:42,196
That's just the way it goes.

1209
00:54:42,279 --> 00:54:43,280
[Woman] Have fun!

1210
00:54:49,703 --> 00:54:53,207
Today is my last day.
Tomorrow I'll be very sad.

1211
00:54:53,290 --> 00:54:55,709
I will miss
all the local assignments.

1212
00:54:55,793 --> 00:54:57,353
I worked for 40 years.
I know everybody.

1213
00:54:57,419 --> 00:55:00,297
Every time I see them they say,
"oh, Nicky, Nicky!" You know?

1214
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:02,090
I'll be sad.
I'll miss everybody.

1215
00:55:10,974 --> 00:55:13,894
My last day, I wanted my
picture more like an earthquake,

1216
00:55:13,977 --> 00:55:16,688
fire, something more,
a big story.

1217
00:55:16,772 --> 00:55:19,191
I wanted more action
on my last day.

1218
00:55:19,274 --> 00:55:23,070
Big story, you can see your name
in every paper everywhere.

1219
00:55:23,153 --> 00:55:24,506
[Andrew] In a way
he is getting out

1220
00:55:24,530 --> 00:55:25,610
at the right time, I think.

1221
00:55:25,656 --> 00:55:27,056
When you look at, kind of,
the world

1222
00:55:27,115 --> 00:55:29,910
that he entered
versus the one he's leaving,

1223
00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:32,621
it is very hard
to value information

1224
00:55:32,704 --> 00:55:34,414
when there's so much of it.

1225
00:55:34,498 --> 00:55:38,293
And there's different levels
of quality to it.

1226
00:55:38,377 --> 00:55:41,505
And when you're somebody
who's shot things carefully,

1227
00:55:41,588 --> 00:55:43,942
you've been a professional,
and you've done all these things

1228
00:55:43,966 --> 00:55:46,635
and then you see somebody
who just pulls out an iPhone.

1229
00:55:46,718 --> 00:55:48,029
And they might get
a heck of a shot,

1230
00:55:48,053 --> 00:55:49,972
but he came from a time

1231
00:55:50,055 --> 00:55:53,058
where there was less of it
and you could really see, wow,

1232
00:55:53,141 --> 00:55:55,060
this was amazing,
this was impactful.

1233
00:55:56,019 --> 00:55:58,438
[Crowd cheering]

1234
00:56:05,445 --> 00:56:08,866
[Asif] Friends,
family, colleagues.

1235
00:56:08,949 --> 00:56:10,951
I'm here to announce
my candidacy

1236
00:56:11,034 --> 00:56:13,412
for lieutenant governor
of California.

1237
00:56:13,495 --> 00:56:16,832
[Crowd chants] Asif! Asif! Asif!

1238
00:56:21,378 --> 00:56:23,839
[Nick] This picture
was for the ap, for the story.

1239
00:56:23,922 --> 00:56:26,592
Not very exciting, but a lot
of my journalist friends

1240
00:56:26,675 --> 00:56:28,302
found out it was my last day.

1241
00:56:28,385 --> 00:56:31,013
Congratulations. I just wanted
to thank you for all your work.

1242
00:56:31,096 --> 00:56:33,265
They all said, "oh, Nicky,
so sad, we love you."

1243
00:56:33,348 --> 00:56:35,243
- "We'll miss you."
- You're such an inspiration.

1244
00:56:35,267 --> 00:56:36,810
Thank you
for everything you've done.

1245
00:56:36,894 --> 00:56:39,146
- Let me get a picture with you.
- Yeah, yeah.

1246
00:56:39,229 --> 00:56:40,564
It was more fun for me

1247
00:56:40,647 --> 00:56:42,274
to say goodbye
to all my friends.

1248
00:56:42,357 --> 00:56:45,068
I don't think I see them
after I retire,

1249
00:56:45,152 --> 00:56:46,945
but I enjoyed so much that day.

1250
00:56:47,029 --> 00:56:48,739
Okay, that one, right here.
On this side.

1251
00:56:48,822 --> 00:56:49,656
I know, the light is better.

1252
00:56:49,740 --> 00:56:50,908
Ready? One, two, three.

1253
00:56:52,576 --> 00:56:53,911
That's it. Bye-bye.

1254
00:56:55,537 --> 00:56:57,539
You know, they gave me
another assignment,

1255
00:56:57,623 --> 00:56:58,665
I said, "no, thank you."

1256
00:57:00,959 --> 00:57:02,645
The ap president said, "Nick,
take a long vacation,

1257
00:57:02,669 --> 00:57:03,837
come back any time you want."

1258
00:57:04,838 --> 00:57:06,214
I think that's it.

1259
00:57:06,298 --> 00:57:08,592
Fifty-one years. My god.

1260
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,391
When I got back to the office
I returned all my camera gear.

1261
00:57:16,475 --> 00:57:17,643
I'll miss all my gear too

1262
00:57:17,726 --> 00:57:19,311
because I use it
almost every day.

1263
00:57:19,394 --> 00:57:21,980
I treat all the camera
and lens like my family.

1264
00:57:22,064 --> 00:57:24,024
Sometimes I slept with it
next to me.

1265
00:57:24,107 --> 00:57:26,443
If something happened,
I had the gear right away.

1266
00:57:27,402 --> 00:57:28,402
Two body.

1267
00:57:29,821 --> 00:57:32,950
- How many cameras?
- Two.

1268
00:57:33,033 --> 00:57:34,451
I have one more to, yeah.

1269
00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:36,328
- Five, six, seven lenses.
- Hm-mm.

1270
00:57:36,411 --> 00:57:38,163
- Okay.
- Thank you, my friend.

1271
00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,207
So happy to work with you
for so many years, Dave.

1272
00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:41,583
- Okay, good luck.
- All right.

1273
00:57:42,417 --> 00:57:43,460
Thank you.

1274
00:57:54,137 --> 00:57:57,057
[Upbeat jazz music playing]

1275
00:58:15,659 --> 00:58:18,161
[Michael] He's had
a long career.

1276
00:58:18,245 --> 00:58:20,414
We knew it would
probably be a big celebration.

1277
00:58:20,497 --> 00:58:21,665
I wanted to make sure it was.

1278
00:58:21,748 --> 00:58:24,084
We knew people
would want to come out

1279
00:58:24,167 --> 00:58:25,961
and be able to honor him
and see him

1280
00:58:26,044 --> 00:58:28,338
and talk to him
and just hang out with him.

1281
00:58:28,422 --> 00:58:31,258
I think that he's going to
be going all over the world.

1282
00:58:31,341 --> 00:58:34,553
Being honored, giving speeches,
showing his pictures.

1283
00:58:34,636 --> 00:58:38,348
I don't think he's going to just
sit back and do nothing.

1284
00:58:38,432 --> 00:58:41,768
Those of us who have
lived our lives with the ap,

1285
00:58:41,852 --> 00:58:45,272
are used to the adrenalin rush.

1286
00:58:45,355 --> 00:58:47,232
And we're always ready to go.

1287
00:58:49,317 --> 00:58:52,029
[Arlette] I don't think anything
is gonna change.

1288
00:58:52,112 --> 00:58:55,365
Retired, not retired,
it doesn't matter with him.

1289
00:58:55,449 --> 00:58:57,659
He's so happy with the camera.

1290
00:58:57,743 --> 00:59:01,705
He would take the camera
and go all over the world.

1291
00:59:01,788 --> 00:59:03,373
Doesn't matter
if people invite him

1292
00:59:03,457 --> 00:59:04,624
people don't invite him,

1293
00:59:04,708 --> 00:59:06,960
he would go on his own
with his camera.

1294
00:59:14,843 --> 00:59:17,763
[Gloria] How often
is a pulitzer prize winner

1295
00:59:17,846 --> 00:59:19,973
going to invite me
to his retirement party?

1296
00:59:20,057 --> 00:59:23,268
Especially someone
who has covered

1297
00:59:23,351 --> 00:59:24,853
stories that we have done
in the past,

1298
00:59:24,936 --> 00:59:26,480
which are important
to women's rights

1299
00:59:26,563 --> 00:59:27,564
and minority rights.

1300
00:59:27,647 --> 00:59:29,524
And covered them
with such heart.

1301
00:59:30,233 --> 00:59:32,694
He should be honored.
He should be remembered.

1302
00:59:32,778 --> 00:59:34,362
He should be celebrated.

1303
00:59:37,282 --> 00:59:39,242
[David] I think Nick ut
and retirement

1304
00:59:39,326 --> 00:59:40,911
will be like Nick ut

1305
00:59:40,994 --> 00:59:44,122
as a full-on ap photographer.

1306
00:59:44,206 --> 00:59:47,709
Nick ut will be
relentlessly pushing

1307
00:59:47,793 --> 00:59:51,046
his optimistic point of view

1308
00:59:51,129 --> 00:59:53,340
to anybody who will listen.

1309
00:59:53,423 --> 00:59:57,010
He will be giving talks
and making appearances.

1310
00:59:57,094 --> 01:00:01,056
And he will never
not be Nick ut.

1311
01:00:04,184 --> 01:00:06,269
[Michael] He definitely enjoys
the company

1312
01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:08,480
of other photographers
and journalists.

1313
01:00:08,563 --> 01:00:11,233
Especially the ones that,
obviously, he's worked with

1314
01:00:11,316 --> 01:00:12,818
for a very long time.

1315
01:00:12,901 --> 01:00:14,778
He's lived this his whole life.

1316
01:00:14,861 --> 01:00:18,115
He has friends that he knows
that are pulitzer prize winners

1317
01:00:18,198 --> 01:00:20,784
or award-winning journalists,
but I've seen him hang out

1318
01:00:20,867 --> 01:00:22,994
with folks who are,
you know, up-and-coming

1319
01:00:23,078 --> 01:00:26,706
journalists or photographers
that see him as a mentor.

1320
01:00:26,790 --> 01:00:28,375
[Christina] Nick
is the gold standard

1321
01:00:28,458 --> 01:00:30,001
when it comes to journalism.

1322
01:00:30,085 --> 01:00:32,754
And as a young journalist,
especially when I met him

1323
01:00:32,838 --> 01:00:34,131
I was in my mid-20s.

1324
01:00:34,214 --> 01:00:36,842
And he just inspired me

1325
01:00:36,925 --> 01:00:40,387
to an extraordinary level
to set the bar higher.

1326
01:00:40,470 --> 01:00:42,681
He's just this big personality

1327
01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:46,059
in this [laughs]
this shorter body.

1328
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:50,522
[Michael] What I hope for him
is to continue

1329
01:00:50,605 --> 01:00:54,860
to do what he loves, which is,
you know, being a photographer.

1330
01:00:54,943 --> 01:00:58,572
My sister obviously wants my dad
to take care of the grandkids,

1331
01:00:58,655 --> 01:01:02,534
so she can go off
and do other things.

1332
01:01:02,617 --> 01:01:04,411
He'll do it, you know,
to be honest.

1333
01:01:04,494 --> 01:01:05,662
He loves the grandkids.

1334
01:01:05,745 --> 01:01:07,622
He'll definitely be wanting
to help out

1335
01:01:07,706 --> 01:01:08,706
and watch the kids.

1336
01:01:27,684 --> 01:01:29,811
[Nick] I have a freelance
assignment to take a picture

1337
01:01:29,895 --> 01:01:32,856
of wildflower superbloom
and a model.

1338
01:01:32,939 --> 01:01:35,233
Very exciting for me,
I never do that.

1339
01:01:35,317 --> 01:01:36,484
It was the first time.

1340
01:01:36,568 --> 01:01:39,362
[Woman] So, they said
that there was, um,

1341
01:01:39,446 --> 01:01:40,655
some rattlesnake here?

1342
01:01:40,739 --> 01:01:43,033
- They're everywhere here.
- Oh, my god!

1343
01:01:43,116 --> 01:01:45,535
[Nick] Ap, they kept me busy,
running around everywhere

1344
01:01:45,619 --> 01:01:48,705
covering a press conference,
a news story, action.

1345
01:01:48,788 --> 01:01:51,708
This being by myself? More free.

1346
01:01:51,791 --> 01:01:54,294
Right there.
Right. Looks good. Yeah.

1347
01:01:54,377 --> 01:01:56,046
- Can you reflect the light?
- Yes.

1348
01:01:56,129 --> 01:01:57,797
Because her face
is too dark now.

1349
01:01:57,881 --> 01:01:59,257
Which side do you want?

1350
01:01:59,341 --> 01:02:02,010
Any side so we can take a look.

1351
01:02:02,093 --> 01:02:04,971
Still hot here on her nose.
It's better right there, yeah.

1352
01:02:05,055 --> 01:02:06,556
Oh, that's beautiful.

1353
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:08,725
- Thank you.
- Yeah, yeah. Look at that.

1354
01:02:08,808 --> 01:02:10,477
The light's beautiful, right?

1355
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,188
I want to check one, check one
how they came out first.

1356
01:02:17,525 --> 01:02:20,737
Most of the models
that ap covered were fashion.

1357
01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:22,697
They walk around
and show all the clothes.

1358
01:02:22,781 --> 01:02:25,867
But I've never shot with
one girl like this, myself.

1359
01:02:25,951 --> 01:02:29,120
Look at the light first.
How did that come out?

1360
01:02:29,204 --> 01:02:31,623
Beautiful. Okay, that there.
Right there. Yeah.

1361
01:02:31,706 --> 01:02:34,709
You put your hair,
move your hair.

1362
01:02:34,793 --> 01:02:36,127
Don't look at the camera.

1363
01:02:38,004 --> 01:02:39,965
Okay, ready.
One, two, three, four.

1364
01:02:41,174 --> 01:02:43,677
- Wow.
- I've done so much modeling,

1365
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:45,529
I mean, I've been modeling
since I was 13 years old.

1366
01:02:45,553 --> 01:02:47,555
But it was just really
an honor for me

1367
01:02:47,639 --> 01:02:50,100
to think that someone
that has document history

1368
01:02:50,183 --> 01:02:52,102
is shooting me,
it's unbelievable.

1369
01:02:52,185 --> 01:02:54,187
And it's something
that I will tell my children

1370
01:02:54,271 --> 01:02:56,273
and grandchildren.
It's really amazing.

1371
01:02:56,356 --> 01:02:59,150
Yeah, like that. Good.
You got the wind, that's good.

1372
01:02:59,234 --> 01:03:00,819
Yeah, that's good.

1373
01:03:00,902 --> 01:03:02,279
The model is very beautiful

1374
01:03:02,362 --> 01:03:04,239
and the pictures of her
are amazing.

1375
01:03:04,322 --> 01:03:05,824
You tell her,
she listens to you.

1376
01:03:05,907 --> 01:03:07,826
She knows how to move
for the camera.

1377
01:03:07,909 --> 01:03:09,189
Yeah, you can hold it.
Like this.

1378
01:03:09,244 --> 01:03:10,745
[Ivette] I honestly
didn't notice

1379
01:03:10,829 --> 01:03:12,509
any difference
from any other photographer.

1380
01:03:12,580 --> 01:03:15,250
I know he hasn't
really shot models

1381
01:03:15,333 --> 01:03:18,420
and he's done
a little more news shooting.

1382
01:03:18,503 --> 01:03:19,897
So it was
a little bit different for him,

1383
01:03:19,921 --> 01:03:22,132
but, I mean, he made me feel
very comfortable

1384
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:24,175
and he gave me
all the right directions,

1385
01:03:24,259 --> 01:03:25,885
so it was just... it was easy.

1386
01:03:25,969 --> 01:03:27,762
Okay, one more.

1387
01:03:27,846 --> 01:03:30,098
That's nice like that.
Now you go to lunch.

1388
01:03:30,181 --> 01:03:32,809
- Thank you, Nick, that was fun.
- You're amazing in the photos.

1389
01:03:32,892 --> 01:03:34,662
- Oh, thank you so much.
- Oh, my god, beautiful.

1390
01:03:34,686 --> 01:03:35,854
Thank you, thank you.

1391
01:03:35,937 --> 01:03:37,817
[Ivette] I'll treat you
to lunch then, let's go.

1392
01:03:37,856 --> 01:03:38,982
[Nick] Let's go.

1393
01:03:49,701 --> 01:03:51,012
[Narrator] While Nick
is no longer

1394
01:03:51,036 --> 01:03:52,287
headed into the office,

1395
01:03:52,370 --> 01:03:54,581
he still has other commitments.

1396
01:03:54,664 --> 01:03:57,167
Such as the monthly gathering
of a group

1397
01:03:57,250 --> 01:04:00,295
appropriately known as
the lunartics.

1398
01:04:00,378 --> 01:04:03,089
[Nick] Every month
me and a group of photographers

1399
01:04:03,173 --> 01:04:05,467
take a picture of airplanes
across the full moon.

1400
01:04:05,550 --> 01:04:07,344
We want a picture
of the airplane

1401
01:04:07,427 --> 01:04:09,304
exactly inside of the moon.

1402
01:04:09,387 --> 01:04:10,805
Fun, not easy.

1403
01:04:10,889 --> 01:04:12,450
Some photographers say,
"oh, that picture is easy."

1404
01:04:12,474 --> 01:04:13,308
But it's not easy.

1405
01:04:13,391 --> 01:04:14,642
At what shutter speed?

1406
01:04:14,726 --> 01:04:16,353
About 12151600.

1407
01:04:16,436 --> 01:04:18,355
I shoot only 400.

1408
01:04:18,438 --> 01:04:19,564
All the time.

1409
01:04:21,733 --> 01:04:23,485
No, no, the shutter speed too.

1410
01:04:23,568 --> 01:04:25,195
- Really?
- Yeah, you'll see.

1411
01:04:25,278 --> 01:04:26,196
You test it out.

1412
01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:28,031
You can shoot at 800 too.

1413
01:04:28,114 --> 01:04:29,699
- Yeah, 800.
- 400 or 800.

1414
01:04:29,783 --> 01:04:32,452
What's interesting to me
about the lunartics,

1415
01:04:32,535 --> 01:04:34,746
for one thing,
they're very obsessive.

1416
01:04:34,829 --> 01:04:36,623
[Man] Ah, it's gonna be
a little high.

1417
01:04:36,706 --> 01:04:37,892
[Nick] The plane
will hit like that.

1418
01:04:37,916 --> 01:04:39,084
It'll go like this way.

1419
01:04:39,167 --> 01:04:40,668
It's like watching
a tennis match

1420
01:04:40,752 --> 01:04:42,295
'cause you've got to move
your camera

1421
01:04:42,379 --> 01:04:44,589
way over here
because it's the wrong angle,

1422
01:04:44,672 --> 01:04:45,590
or way over there.

1423
01:04:45,673 --> 01:04:48,218
[Disappointed groans]

1424
01:04:50,095 --> 01:04:51,805
And way over there
could be a block or two

1425
01:04:51,888 --> 01:04:53,348
orjump in your car

1426
01:04:53,431 --> 01:04:56,309
in order to get the plane
coming right through the moon.

1427
01:04:56,393 --> 01:04:58,103
Oh! Goddamned pilot!

1428
01:04:58,186 --> 01:05:00,522
[David] I must say
it was great fun.

1429
01:05:00,605 --> 01:05:02,524
And there's a certain
amount of satisfaction

1430
01:05:02,607 --> 01:05:04,234
you get at nailing that shot

1431
01:05:04,317 --> 01:05:06,653
when the plane
comes right across the moon.

1432
01:05:06,736 --> 01:05:08,822
Wow, look at that.

1433
01:05:08,905 --> 01:05:11,324
Yeah, look at the details,
unbelievable.

1434
01:05:11,408 --> 01:05:12,992
The only thing
I don't quite understand

1435
01:05:13,076 --> 01:05:14,786
is why they keep doing it
every month.

1436
01:05:14,869 --> 01:05:16,413
We are getting close, though.

1437
01:05:16,496 --> 01:05:17,956
Getting close, very close.

1438
01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:20,119
I'm one of those people
that when I've done something

1439
01:05:20,166 --> 01:05:23,128
one time, I'm pretty well happy
with the results

1440
01:05:23,211 --> 01:05:26,005
and I'm moving on
to the next stop.

1441
01:05:26,089 --> 01:05:28,800
Watch out for this guy
right here. This one maybe hit.

1442
01:05:28,883 --> 01:05:30,593
That is not true with them.

1443
01:05:30,677 --> 01:05:32,137
Oh, that's going to hit.
Big hit.

1444
01:05:33,930 --> 01:05:35,682
Oh! Good picture.

1445
01:05:37,809 --> 01:05:39,811
It's contagious,
being around them.

1446
01:05:39,894 --> 01:05:42,647
- Beautiful.
- This should be enlarged.

1447
01:05:42,730 --> 01:05:44,816
- Nicky, you nailed it, man.
- Good job. Nailed it.

1448
01:05:44,899 --> 01:05:46,693
- One more?
- Look at this one right here.

1449
01:05:46,776 --> 01:05:48,403
It's too easy
just to stick the moon

1450
01:05:48,486 --> 01:05:49,988
in the middle
like Nicky, you know.

1451
01:05:50,071 --> 01:05:52,031
Come one, Nick.
Try to do what we did.

1452
01:05:52,115 --> 01:05:54,075
[Nick] I like this one too.

1453
01:05:54,159 --> 01:05:56,035
No, that's what we got.
Yours is much...

1454
01:05:56,119 --> 01:05:59,122
No, the middle one's better.
Yeah, right there. Right there.

1455
01:05:59,205 --> 01:06:01,458
That's amazing.

1456
01:06:01,541 --> 01:06:03,918
- Nicky, you nailed it, man.
- Yeah, right?

1457
01:06:05,128 --> 01:06:07,046
You know, I think
Nicky cheated, actually.

1458
01:06:07,130 --> 01:06:08,631
I just haven't figured out how.

1459
01:06:08,715 --> 01:06:10,884
- [Nick] Fucking Photoshop.
- [Laughing]

1460
01:06:15,722 --> 01:06:18,141
[Narrator] Of course Nick
and fellow lunartic,

1461
01:06:18,224 --> 01:06:20,351
raoul goa, are not about to miss

1462
01:06:20,435 --> 01:06:24,063
one of the biggest lunar events
in nearly 40 years.

1463
01:06:24,147 --> 01:06:25,565
Nicky, where are we going?

1464
01:06:25,648 --> 01:06:28,193
We're going to Oregon.

1465
01:06:28,276 --> 01:06:29,903
- For the eclipse?
- The eclipse.

1466
01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:32,030
Look at the sunrise, Nicky,
the sunrise.

1467
01:06:32,113 --> 01:06:34,991
We drove all the way
from la to Oregon.

1468
01:06:35,074 --> 01:06:37,076
I don't think we'll get a hotel.
Sleep in the car

1469
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,429
a couple of hours,
then drive back.

1470
01:06:38,453 --> 01:06:40,121
We're in fallon, Nevada,
right now.

1471
01:06:40,205 --> 01:06:42,332
- It's five in the morning.
- I'm sleepy.

1472
01:06:42,415 --> 01:06:45,919
Maybe when we come back
we'll book one hotel.

1473
01:06:46,002 --> 01:06:48,421
Go take a shower,
feel better, and go home.

1474
01:06:48,505 --> 01:06:51,174
We still have 417 miles to go.

1475
01:06:51,257 --> 01:06:52,634
- You ready?
- Yeah.

1476
01:06:54,385 --> 01:06:55,845
We planned it last-minute,

1477
01:06:55,929 --> 01:06:57,972
that's why
we don't have a hotel.

1478
01:06:58,056 --> 01:07:00,725
I have a hammock
so I sleep under the trees.

1479
01:07:00,808 --> 01:07:03,269
But when I was sleeping,
I was worried about the bears.

1480
01:07:03,353 --> 01:07:05,146
So, I go back in the car
right away.

1481
01:07:09,067 --> 01:07:11,319
Quarter to six in the morning,
50 degrees.

1482
01:07:11,402 --> 01:07:13,821
Too cold for a Vietnamese guy.

1483
01:07:13,905 --> 01:07:16,699
- Too cold for a Vietnamese guy?
- I've got the filter ready here.

1484
01:07:20,662 --> 01:07:22,330
Nick, are you ready
for the eclipse?

1485
01:07:22,413 --> 01:07:25,041
- I'm ready, my friend.
- Okay.

1486
01:07:25,124 --> 01:07:26,852
- Ready for the eclipse, huh?
- Yeah. I'm ready.

1487
01:07:26,876 --> 01:07:27,895
In less than five minutes,

1488
01:07:27,919 --> 01:07:28,920
- it starts.
- Yeah.

1489
01:07:29,003 --> 01:07:30,588
[Woman] You got
two minutes, guys.

1490
01:07:34,676 --> 01:07:35,676
Beautiful.

1491
01:07:40,014 --> 01:07:41,057
Wow.

1492
01:07:42,809 --> 01:07:45,186
That's a beautiful shot
of the eclipse.

1493
01:07:45,270 --> 01:07:47,021
Oh, my god,
that's an amazing picture.

1494
01:07:47,105 --> 01:07:49,023
[Raoul] The complete totality.

1495
01:07:49,107 --> 01:07:50,567
[Nick] Wonderful trip.

1496
01:07:50,650 --> 01:07:53,361
[Upbeat guitar music playing]

1497
01:07:56,364 --> 01:08:00,201
[Narrator] Once back in la,
Nick barely has time to unpack

1498
01:08:00,285 --> 01:08:02,579
before he gets
another invitation.

1499
01:08:02,662 --> 01:08:04,163
Me and my friend, Mark Harris,

1500
01:08:04,247 --> 01:08:05,873
he says, "Nicky,
we're going to Mexico

1501
01:08:05,957 --> 01:08:08,126
and go diving and swimming
with a whale shark."

1502
01:08:08,209 --> 01:08:10,712
But for me, I'm nervous,
I've never done that before.

1503
01:08:28,521 --> 01:08:30,523
[Guide] Okay, buddy, go now.

1504
01:08:32,900 --> 01:08:34,485
Two, three.

1505
01:08:49,876 --> 01:08:50,793
Oh, no. I go back.

1506
01:08:50,877 --> 01:08:52,545
I think he wants to get out.

1507
01:08:52,629 --> 01:08:55,173
I went in the water
for, like, five minutes.

1508
01:08:55,256 --> 01:08:57,550
I saw a lot of sharks there.

1509
01:08:57,634 --> 01:08:59,302
I said I'm worried they bite me.

1510
01:08:59,385 --> 01:09:01,614
That's why I grabbed the guy,
and said I wanted to go up.

1511
01:09:01,638 --> 01:09:02,805
And got out right away.

1512
01:09:06,059 --> 01:09:07,226
You see, buddy?

1513
01:09:07,310 --> 01:09:09,062
- Yeah, saw a big one out there.
- Nice.

1514
01:09:10,313 --> 01:09:11,856
[Indistinct]

1515
01:09:11,939 --> 01:09:13,107
Very big.

1516
01:09:13,191 --> 01:09:14,400
The shark was bigger than me.

1517
01:09:14,484 --> 01:09:16,152
Will you go next time?

1518
01:09:16,235 --> 01:09:17,320
Let's practice first.

1519
01:09:17,403 --> 01:09:18,881
- No next time.
- I'll show you how to do it.

1520
01:09:18,905 --> 01:09:21,199
No, I don't do it, you do it.

1521
01:09:21,282 --> 01:09:22,282
- Right.
- No more.

1522
01:09:22,325 --> 01:09:24,327
- You gonna try again?
- No, no.

1523
01:09:26,663 --> 01:09:27,848
He said, "why are you going up?"

1524
01:09:27,872 --> 01:09:29,624
I said, "I don't want them
to bite me

1525
01:09:29,707 --> 01:09:31,417
like they eat
the Vietnamese egg roll."

1526
01:09:31,501 --> 01:09:32,835
I said, "eek, I'm going up."

1527
01:09:34,504 --> 01:09:35,963
I didn't want to stay there.

1528
01:09:48,393 --> 01:09:50,645
[Narrator] And Mexico
is just the beginning.

1529
01:09:50,728 --> 01:09:54,649
The Nick ut world tour
continues in Asia.

1530
01:09:54,732 --> 01:09:57,777
[Nick] I went to Shanghai
and Taipei.

1531
01:09:57,860 --> 01:10:00,571
They invited me to talk about
my pictures from Vietnam.

1532
01:10:00,655 --> 01:10:03,366
And sometimes teaching
photo journalists there.

1533
01:10:03,449 --> 01:10:04,909
That was a lot of fun for me.

1534
01:10:04,992 --> 01:10:06,744
You don't want to stay home
and watch TV.

1535
01:10:08,037 --> 01:10:09,539
[David] Well, Nick ut retired,

1536
01:10:09,622 --> 01:10:12,208
but I've seen
no evidence of that.

1537
01:10:12,291 --> 01:10:15,002
Usually you think of retirement
as when you kind of

1538
01:10:15,086 --> 01:10:17,714
take your foot off
the accelerator a little bit.

1539
01:10:17,797 --> 01:10:21,175
He's not done that.
He travels all over the world.

1540
01:10:21,259 --> 01:10:23,886
I mean, if you want
to get Nick ut to show up

1541
01:10:23,970 --> 01:10:27,348
in Shanghai, just give him
an award and he'll be there.

1542
01:10:27,432 --> 01:10:29,392
[Nick] They took care of me
very well.

1543
01:10:29,475 --> 01:10:31,394
They treat me like a king.

1544
01:10:31,477 --> 01:10:34,397
[Upbeat music playing]

1545
01:10:38,276 --> 01:10:40,945
[Rhythmic drums playing]

1546
01:10:44,490 --> 01:10:47,160
When I was in India
I had 100 photographers

1547
01:10:47,243 --> 01:10:48,578
covering my story.

1548
01:10:48,661 --> 01:10:51,038
You can see pictures of me
in the paper every day.

1549
01:10:53,666 --> 01:10:55,668
Even the number one
movie star in India

1550
01:10:55,752 --> 01:10:56,753
wanted to come see me.

1551
01:11:02,925 --> 01:11:06,220
[Laid-back jazz music playing]

1552
01:11:08,181 --> 01:11:11,017
[Narrator] Nick returns to la
just in time for the opening

1553
01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:13,144
of a very special exhibit

1554
01:11:13,227 --> 01:11:15,938
at the Japanese American
national museum.

1555
01:11:16,022 --> 01:11:20,109
And as a vip,
he gets a private tour

1556
01:11:20,193 --> 01:11:24,572
by the most handsome
of the museum's board members.

1557
01:11:24,655 --> 01:11:26,157
Nick ut.

1558
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:28,534
[Nick] When first I saw him,
I said, "I know him."

1559
01:11:28,618 --> 01:11:29,702
"He's George takei."

1560
01:11:29,786 --> 01:11:31,954
I'm so glad
that you're visiting us

1561
01:11:32,038 --> 01:11:33,581
at this occasion.

1562
01:11:33,664 --> 01:11:37,627
When an exhibit on me is on.

1563
01:11:37,710 --> 01:11:40,838
I knew him
through his photographic work.

1564
01:11:40,922 --> 01:11:44,467
And I knew of the important
contribution he made

1565
01:11:44,550 --> 01:11:46,469
to changing our society.

1566
01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:50,139
Making people think,
galvanizing people into action

1567
01:11:50,223 --> 01:11:53,684
for peace and an end
to the Vietnam war.

1568
01:11:53,768 --> 01:11:57,355
It was a photo that moved,

1569
01:11:57,438 --> 01:11:59,774
not only this country,
but moved the world.

1570
01:11:59,857 --> 01:12:03,152
I'm able to communicate
with language.

1571
01:12:03,236 --> 01:12:06,447
He uses the visual language

1572
01:12:06,531 --> 01:12:08,825
to communicate and move people.

1573
01:12:08,908 --> 01:12:12,036
So, each in our own way,
had been contributing

1574
01:12:12,119 --> 01:12:15,164
to making our society
a better society.

1575
01:12:15,248 --> 01:12:17,917
And a more just society.

1576
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,545
I was involved
in the peace movement here

1577
01:12:20,628 --> 01:12:22,255
during the Vietnam war.

1578
01:12:22,338 --> 01:12:23,881
And I'm curious,

1579
01:12:23,965 --> 01:12:26,175
what was
Vietnamese people's attitude

1580
01:12:26,259 --> 01:12:28,719
toward what was going on
in this country?

1581
01:12:28,803 --> 01:12:31,013
This country was torn apart.

1582
01:12:31,097 --> 01:12:34,642
Those that supported the war
and those of us who fiercely

1583
01:12:34,725 --> 01:12:35,768
opposed the war.

1584
01:12:35,852 --> 01:12:38,104
The war in Vietnam was too long.

1585
01:12:38,187 --> 01:12:40,898
After the fall of Saigon,
we were so angry

1586
01:12:40,982 --> 01:12:42,942
that we lost the country.

1587
01:12:43,025 --> 01:12:46,612
George takei, he's so nice.
We talked for two hours.

1588
01:12:46,696 --> 01:12:48,155
He showed a lot of pictures

1589
01:12:48,239 --> 01:12:49,949
and he talked about his family

1590
01:12:50,032 --> 01:12:52,326
when he was a kid
in the Japanese camp.

1591
01:12:52,410 --> 01:12:55,746
[George] When I was a child,
Pearl harbor was bombed.

1592
01:12:55,830 --> 01:12:58,165
My grandparents were the people
that came here.

1593
01:12:58,249 --> 01:13:00,835
My mother was born
in Sacramento.

1594
01:13:00,918 --> 01:13:02,920
My father was a San franciscan.

1595
01:13:03,004 --> 01:13:05,715
They met and married
in Los Angeles.

1596
01:13:05,798 --> 01:13:09,260
So you know, we were Americans
of Japanese ancestry.

1597
01:13:09,343 --> 01:13:11,429
But after Pearl harbor,

1598
01:13:11,512 --> 01:13:15,266
this country was swept up
in war hysteria.

1599
01:13:15,349 --> 01:13:16,851
And racism.

1600
01:13:17,894 --> 01:13:19,478
And we happened to look

1601
01:13:19,562 --> 01:13:21,480
like the people
that bombed Pearl harbor.

1602
01:13:21,564 --> 01:13:25,860
So we Americans who had
nothing to do with Pearl harbor

1603
01:13:25,943 --> 01:13:28,029
were summarily rounded up

1604
01:13:28,112 --> 01:13:31,032
and put into ten
Barb-wire prison camps

1605
01:13:31,115 --> 01:13:34,035
in some of the most
hellish places in this country.

1606
01:13:34,118 --> 01:13:37,830
And we were sent
to the swamps of Arkansas.

1607
01:13:37,914 --> 01:13:39,081
Can you imagine?

1608
01:13:39,165 --> 01:13:41,667
I stayed only three weeks
in the camp.

1609
01:13:41,751 --> 01:13:43,836
Refugee camp,
after the fall of Saigon.

1610
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,714
But we were so lucky,
not like you.

1611
01:13:46,797 --> 01:13:48,883
World war two was different
than the Vietnam war.

1612
01:13:48,966 --> 01:13:51,177
When the Vietnamese came here
we didn't have any trouble

1613
01:13:51,260 --> 01:13:54,096
because the south Vietnam
fought communists.

1614
01:13:54,180 --> 01:13:56,641
And america took care
of the Vietnamese refugees

1615
01:13:56,724 --> 01:13:57,808
very well.

1616
01:13:57,892 --> 01:13:59,977
[George] I also wanted
to share with Nick

1617
01:14:00,061 --> 01:14:02,688
some of my more recent
political activism.

1618
01:14:02,772 --> 01:14:05,232
[George] I have been an activist

1619
01:14:05,316 --> 01:14:07,735
in the political arena
and social justice arena

1620
01:14:07,818 --> 01:14:09,987
- throughout my career.
- Yeah.

1621
01:14:10,071 --> 01:14:12,448
But I was silent
on the one issue

1622
01:14:12,531 --> 01:14:14,533
that was closest to me.

1623
01:14:14,617 --> 01:14:17,995
I'm gay, but I could not

1624
01:14:18,079 --> 01:14:21,165
work in Hollywood
if it was known that I was gay.

1625
01:14:21,248 --> 01:14:23,376
- Yeah.
- And so I was silent about it.

1626
01:14:23,459 --> 01:14:26,712
- Hm-mm.
- But in 2005,

1627
01:14:26,796 --> 01:14:29,590
something extraordinary
happened in California.

1628
01:14:29,674 --> 01:14:33,177
Our legislature, the California
state legislature,

1629
01:14:33,260 --> 01:14:35,805
passed
the marriage equality bill.

1630
01:14:35,888 --> 01:14:38,224
Gay people could be married.

1631
01:14:38,307 --> 01:14:43,437
[Nick] I covered a lot of gay
marriage protests everywhere.

1632
01:14:43,521 --> 01:14:46,524
[George] Nick is part
of the environment.

1633
01:14:46,607 --> 01:14:49,318
Whereas when we arrived
at an airport,

1634
01:14:49,402 --> 01:14:51,612
wherever in the United States,

1635
01:14:51,696 --> 01:14:54,448
there are these people
that shoved their cameras

1636
01:14:54,532 --> 01:14:57,118
and shout questions at you.

1637
01:14:57,201 --> 01:14:59,620
And that's not the way
to get a story.

1638
01:14:59,704 --> 01:15:02,373
Nick covers a story
as it's happening

1639
01:15:02,456 --> 01:15:07,211
without inserting himself
into what's happening.

1640
01:15:07,294 --> 01:15:09,630
One day I'll invite you
to a Vietnamese lunch.

1641
01:15:09,714 --> 01:15:11,632
All right, we have a date.

1642
01:15:11,716 --> 01:15:13,175
- Thank you.
- And thank you

1643
01:15:13,259 --> 01:15:15,011
- for visiting me.
- Thank you, George.

1644
01:15:15,094 --> 01:15:18,014
[Emotional music playing]

1645
01:15:24,145 --> 01:15:27,064
[Harp music playing]

1646
01:15:42,079 --> 01:15:43,789
[Narrator] Despite
narrowly escaping

1647
01:15:43,873 --> 01:15:46,751
during the fall of Saigon
in 1975,

1648
01:15:46,834 --> 01:15:49,712
Nick has maintained
a connection to Vietnam,

1649
01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:52,339
returning annually
for the past 30 years.

1650
01:15:54,258 --> 01:15:56,385
[Nick] I've always
loved Vietnam.

1651
01:15:56,469 --> 01:15:58,012
Because it's my country.

1652
01:15:58,095 --> 01:16:00,097
I want to stay here longer.

1653
01:16:00,181 --> 01:16:01,891
I never stay there one week.

1654
01:16:01,974 --> 01:16:04,310
I always stay at least
two, three weeks.

1655
01:16:04,393 --> 01:16:06,604
Because I love Vietnam.
I have so many friends.

1656
01:16:22,161 --> 01:16:24,622
This is the best
in the mekong delta. The best.

1657
01:16:36,801 --> 01:16:39,136
Smell. Ah.

1658
01:16:39,220 --> 01:16:40,221
I love this smell.

1659
01:16:55,486 --> 01:16:57,363
[Narrator] Nick will spend
the next few weeks

1660
01:16:57,446 --> 01:16:59,073
in and around Saigon,

1661
01:16:59,156 --> 01:17:01,200
now known as Ho Chi Minh City,

1662
01:17:01,283 --> 01:17:03,494
visiting friends and family.

1663
01:17:03,577 --> 01:17:04,912
Today, he is stopping

1664
01:17:04,995 --> 01:17:07,206
by his home village of khe sanh

1665
01:17:07,289 --> 01:17:09,917
to see his last
surviving brother,

1666
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:13,671
who still lives in the house
where they grew up.

1667
01:17:13,754 --> 01:17:16,048
While there, he'll light incense

1668
01:17:16,132 --> 01:17:17,758
at his family altar

1669
01:17:17,842 --> 01:17:20,177
to honor and remember
his loved ones.

1670
01:17:55,254 --> 01:17:58,215
[Somber music playing]

1671
01:18:06,098 --> 01:18:07,600
Nick's next stop

1672
01:18:07,683 --> 01:18:10,769
is an important but painful one.

1673
01:18:10,853 --> 01:18:14,356
In 1963 his ap colleague,
Malcolm brown,

1674
01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:16,692
documented the self-immolation

1675
01:18:16,775 --> 01:18:19,153
of Buddhist monk, thich qung c,

1676
01:18:19,236 --> 01:18:21,697
in this unforgettable photo

1677
01:18:21,780 --> 01:18:24,909
which brought global attention
to the escalating war.

1678
01:18:26,577 --> 01:18:28,495
The memorial to this monk

1679
01:18:28,579 --> 01:18:31,207
is one of the most
revered places in the city

1680
01:18:31,290 --> 01:18:33,417
for any survivor of the war.

1681
01:18:33,500 --> 01:18:37,880
In many ways brown's photo
is the bookend to Nick's.

1682
01:18:37,963 --> 01:18:39,840
One opened the eyes of the world

1683
01:18:39,924 --> 01:18:41,592
to the horrors of war,

1684
01:18:41,675 --> 01:18:44,094
while the other
turned public sentiment

1685
01:18:44,178 --> 01:18:46,013
against it for good.

1686
01:18:46,096 --> 01:18:48,307
The picture of the monk on fire

1687
01:18:48,390 --> 01:18:50,893
during a protest in 1963.

1688
01:18:51,810 --> 01:18:52,810
Right there.

1689
01:19:06,992 --> 01:19:09,286
[Narrator] The next day
Nick has a reunion

1690
01:19:09,370 --> 01:19:12,164
with two other veteran
photographers of the war.

1691
01:19:12,248 --> 01:19:14,833
Former ap colleague, [unclear]

1692
01:19:14,917 --> 01:19:18,254
And a newer friend,
doan cong tinh,

1693
01:19:18,337 --> 01:19:21,465
who covered the conflict
for the north.

1694
01:19:21,548 --> 01:19:23,926
While they shot for two
different sides of the war,

1695
01:19:24,009 --> 01:19:25,469
the three veteran journalists

1696
01:19:25,552 --> 01:19:28,597
share a bond
that transcends politics.

1697
01:19:28,681 --> 01:19:31,058
[Nick] Doan cong tinh
very good photographer.

1698
01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:32,810
Amazing photographer.

1699
01:19:32,893 --> 01:19:35,980
He's become a very good friend.

1700
01:19:36,063 --> 01:19:39,525
We didn't meet when the war
was raging on and both sides

1701
01:19:39,608 --> 01:19:41,902
were trading bullets constantly.

1702
01:19:41,986 --> 01:19:44,488
Not until very recently that
we got to know each other

1703
01:19:44,571 --> 01:19:46,824
during the times Nick ut
comes back to Vietnam.

1704
01:19:46,907 --> 01:19:50,869
Even though it was
our first meeting,

1705
01:19:50,953 --> 01:19:53,664
and even considering the fact

1706
01:19:53,747 --> 01:19:56,000
that we were enemies
in the past,

1707
01:19:56,083 --> 01:19:59,169
we connected instantly
as fellow reporters.

1708
01:19:59,253 --> 01:20:03,048
We have mutual respect
for each other.

1709
01:20:03,132 --> 01:20:05,843
I told them they had
a photocopy of my photo.

1710
01:20:05,926 --> 01:20:09,388
I told them I would get
them a better copy.

1711
01:20:09,471 --> 01:20:11,849
[Narrator] Not surprisingly,
Nick's famous photo

1712
01:20:11,932 --> 01:20:15,436
was prominently displayed
at the war museum.

1713
01:20:15,519 --> 01:20:18,147
His former co-worker [unclear]

1714
01:20:18,230 --> 01:20:22,067
Plays a rather notorious role
in the picture.

1715
01:20:22,151 --> 01:20:23,795
You can see him
in the picture of napalm girl.

1716
01:20:23,819 --> 01:20:25,154
He was rewinding the film.

1717
01:20:26,613 --> 01:20:27,990
That's me.

1718
01:20:28,073 --> 01:20:30,367
After I take a picture,
I rolled my camera out,

1719
01:20:30,451 --> 01:20:33,954
take the film out and I send
back to Saigon for upi.

1720
01:20:34,038 --> 01:20:37,207
I change a new roll film
so I can take pictures more.

1721
01:20:37,291 --> 01:20:40,210
[Somber music playing]

1722
01:20:56,935 --> 01:20:58,812
My brother.

1723
01:20:58,896 --> 01:21:00,540
I'm so happy to see a picture
of my brother

1724
01:21:00,564 --> 01:21:02,066
in the museum right here.

1725
01:21:02,149 --> 01:21:03,442
The picture very sad.

1726
01:21:03,525 --> 01:21:04,735
He died so young too.

1727
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:07,946
He wanted to become
a photographer.

1728
01:21:09,865 --> 01:21:13,952
After my brother died I said,
"I hope I get a job one day."

1729
01:21:14,036 --> 01:21:15,371
I love my brother so much.

1730
01:21:19,458 --> 01:21:21,627
- Good bye.
- Okay, goodbye.

1731
01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:24,004
Okay.

1732
01:21:24,088 --> 01:21:26,548
- A big hug.
- Okay.

1733
01:21:26,632 --> 01:21:27,716
All right.

1734
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:30,636
[Upbeat music playing]

1735
01:21:35,265 --> 01:21:36,545
[Nick] We're going
to trang bang.

1736
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:38,685
Every time I come to Vietnam

1737
01:21:38,769 --> 01:21:42,648
I always visit Kim phuc's family
in trang bang.

1738
01:21:42,731 --> 01:21:45,526
Kim's cousin
opened a coffee shop there.

1739
01:21:45,609 --> 01:21:47,209
Same place
where they dropped the napalm.

1740
01:21:53,492 --> 01:21:54,785
Right here. Right here.

1741
01:21:54,868 --> 01:21:56,995
You can stop here.
There's pagoda right here.

1742
01:22:03,794 --> 01:22:05,712
Where have you been
since you came back here?

1743
01:22:05,796 --> 01:22:07,214
Took you long enough
to come see me.

1744
01:22:07,297 --> 01:22:08,757
How are you?

1745
01:22:08,841 --> 01:22:09,967
Where is your brother?

1746
01:22:10,050 --> 01:22:11,427
I am doing great here.

1747
01:22:11,510 --> 01:22:13,345
Where is your little brother?

1748
01:22:13,429 --> 01:22:14,805
He went home.

1749
01:22:14,888 --> 01:22:17,558
Right here. June 8th, 1972.

1750
01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:20,060
Four napalm come down
and hit right outside pagoda.

1751
01:22:20,144 --> 01:22:22,020
This is a new highway.

1752
01:22:22,104 --> 01:22:23,623
During the Vietnam war,
there was no highway.

1753
01:22:23,647 --> 01:22:25,607
That's why when they opened
the highway

1754
01:22:25,691 --> 01:22:26,817
the pagoda had to move.

1755
01:22:28,944 --> 01:22:31,363
When you were in Saigon
and riding to trang bang,

1756
01:22:31,447 --> 01:22:33,991
you could see pagoda
right on the highway.

1757
01:22:34,074 --> 01:22:36,410
Today you don't see
the pagoda anywhere.

1758
01:22:36,493 --> 01:22:38,579
How many kids were playing?

1759
01:22:38,662 --> 01:22:41,790
Kim phuc, the children
in the neighborhood, and me.

1760
01:22:41,874 --> 01:22:45,127
We took turns

1761
01:22:45,210 --> 01:22:48,255
playing skipping rope.

1762
01:22:48,338 --> 01:22:51,383
Kim phuc and I swung the rope
for the others to jump.

1763
01:22:51,467 --> 01:22:53,927
- For the kids to jump?
- For the kids to jump.

1764
01:22:54,011 --> 01:22:56,346
That was when I was about ten.

1765
01:22:56,430 --> 01:22:58,682
My mom went to work
and left three of us at home.

1766
01:22:58,765 --> 01:23:01,935
We were aware
of the bombing at the time

1767
01:23:02,019 --> 01:23:05,022
so we followed Kim phuc
to hide in this very temple.

1768
01:23:05,105 --> 01:23:08,692
The 25th infantry division
was present here as well.

1769
01:23:08,775 --> 01:23:10,694
The civilians hid
inside the temple

1770
01:23:10,777 --> 01:23:13,405
while the 25th infantry division
stayed outside.

1771
01:23:13,489 --> 01:23:15,616
Then they told us
that the temple

1772
01:23:15,699 --> 01:23:18,410
was going to be bombarded.
That was why Kim phuc,

1773
01:23:18,494 --> 01:23:21,121
along with many of
our relatives, began to run out.

1774
01:23:21,205 --> 01:23:23,207
When the bombs dropped,
we were scattered around,

1775
01:23:23,290 --> 01:23:24,541
hoping to save ourselves.

1776
01:23:24,625 --> 01:23:27,544
I was lucky as I took a turn
that led to here.

1777
01:23:27,628 --> 01:23:29,988
Kim phuc was running straight
this way with nowhere to hide.

1778
01:23:30,047 --> 01:23:33,008
That was why she took the hit.

1779
01:23:33,091 --> 01:23:37,721
There were other casualties
as well.

1780
01:23:37,804 --> 01:23:39,284
[Narrator] Several
of those casualties

1781
01:23:39,348 --> 01:23:41,517
were also family members.

1782
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:45,062
Kim phijc's brother eye
was injured by the napalm.

1783
01:23:45,145 --> 01:23:48,607
And three young cousins
lost their lives.

1784
01:23:48,690 --> 01:23:52,903
Let's go to the spot.

1785
01:23:52,986 --> 01:23:55,155
Just about a hundred
meters from here.

1786
01:23:56,406 --> 01:23:57,950
Let's go to the spot.

1787
01:23:58,033 --> 01:23:59,385
I'm fine.
Just scared of the traffic.

1788
01:23:59,409 --> 01:24:01,078
Yeah, right there.

1789
01:24:01,161 --> 01:24:02,347
About 100 yards as I remember.

1790
01:24:02,371 --> 01:24:04,790
Trang bang changed a lot.
During 1972

1791
01:24:04,873 --> 01:24:07,501
you never see
people walk along the highway.

1792
01:24:07,584 --> 01:24:10,629
Because viet cong sniper
can shoot you. Kill you.

1793
01:24:10,712 --> 01:24:12,506
Today there's a hundred thousand
motorbikes

1794
01:24:12,589 --> 01:24:14,341
riding traffic everywhere.

1795
01:24:14,424 --> 01:24:17,010
And outside the pagoda,
now they have a stop sign.

1796
01:24:17,094 --> 01:24:21,014
The red line. During the war
you didn't have the red line.

1797
01:24:21,098 --> 01:24:23,058
I remember you ran
about 100 yards.

1798
01:24:23,141 --> 01:24:24,309
About 100 yards.

1799
01:24:25,852 --> 01:24:27,604
We're on highway 1 right now.

1800
01:24:27,688 --> 01:24:29,064
After the bomb,

1801
01:24:29,147 --> 01:24:30,983
the grandmother holding the baby

1802
01:24:31,066 --> 01:24:33,026
and calling, "help me!
Help my grandchild!"

1803
01:24:33,110 --> 01:24:34,319
She stopped right here.

1804
01:24:37,573 --> 01:24:38,782
Then I start a running

1805
01:24:38,865 --> 01:24:40,951
and shot the picture
of Kim phuc over there.

1806
01:24:43,954 --> 01:24:46,873
I stand right there
on highway 1.

1807
01:24:46,957 --> 01:24:48,917
When the... after the bomb,

1808
01:24:49,001 --> 01:24:50,419
then they all run together

1809
01:24:50,502 --> 01:24:52,796
and stop right here.
Couple shots.

1810
01:24:52,879 --> 01:24:55,549
And she and her brother
ran this way.

1811
01:24:55,632 --> 01:24:58,135
And Kim phuc ran
where I put the water on her.

1812
01:25:02,222 --> 01:25:03,932
Nobody believes
she's still alive.

1813
01:25:04,016 --> 01:25:07,019
I say, "she's married now.
Still alive. Lives in Canada."

1814
01:25:30,542 --> 01:25:32,669
[Narrator] Back home in la,
Nick is breaking in

1815
01:25:32,753 --> 01:25:34,296
a new Leica.

1816
01:25:34,379 --> 01:25:36,465
The iconic brand
has been synonymous

1817
01:25:36,548 --> 01:25:37,924
with his story career

1818
01:25:38,008 --> 01:25:40,385
and he's just the third person
to be inducted

1819
01:25:40,469 --> 01:25:42,095
into the Leica hall-of-fame

1820
01:25:42,179 --> 01:25:44,514
for his contributions
to photojournalism.

1821
01:25:46,141 --> 01:25:48,393
So it's no surprise
that the Leica gallery

1822
01:25:48,477 --> 01:25:52,314
in Los Angeles has asked him
to put on an exhibition

1823
01:25:52,397 --> 01:25:55,359
to showcase the amazing range
of his work.

1824
01:25:55,442 --> 01:25:58,070
Both during and after the war.

1825
01:25:59,946 --> 01:26:01,990
I love that because then
you can see it. Right?

1826
01:26:02,074 --> 01:26:03,617
That's why I was like, use that.

1827
01:26:03,700 --> 01:26:06,286
Uh, she liked this one, right?

1828
01:26:06,370 --> 01:26:08,163
- Yes. Yeah.
- Yeah, okay.

1829
01:26:08,246 --> 01:26:10,248
[Mark] So you could
drag it from here.

1830
01:26:10,332 --> 01:26:11,458
[Nick] That is better.

1831
01:26:11,541 --> 01:26:13,251
I better do like this.

1832
01:26:13,335 --> 01:26:14,503
Okay.

1833
01:26:14,586 --> 01:26:16,588
- And Michael Jackson.
- Yeah.

1834
01:26:20,092 --> 01:26:22,344
- The duck one.
- The duck one.

1835
01:26:25,347 --> 01:26:26,765
But let's get Dolly Parton.

1836
01:26:26,848 --> 01:26:29,601
- She included that.
- I don't see that.

1837
01:26:29,685 --> 01:26:31,228
- Yeah.
- Look. Look.

1838
01:26:31,311 --> 01:26:32,813
No, she loved that shot.
Right here.

1839
01:26:32,896 --> 01:26:33,896
Yeah, okay.

1840
01:26:33,939 --> 01:26:35,148
Dolly Parton there.

1841
01:26:36,191 --> 01:26:37,484
- I think the oj shot.
- Him?

1842
01:26:39,986 --> 01:26:40,986
[Nick] This one.

1843
01:26:42,989 --> 01:26:43,989
This one right here.

1844
01:26:44,032 --> 01:26:45,325
I think this is a better one.

1845
01:26:45,409 --> 01:26:48,120
I mean, you can almost
actually hear the helicopters.

1846
01:26:49,496 --> 01:26:52,457
And this one with the, uh,
the girl in the helicopter?

1847
01:26:52,541 --> 01:26:53,750
Where was this?

1848
01:26:53,834 --> 01:26:55,794
In central Vietnam.

1849
01:26:55,877 --> 01:26:57,462
So what year was that?

1850
01:26:57,546 --> 01:27:00,215
April, uh, February, uh,

1851
01:27:00,298 --> 01:27:02,300
1975, before the fall of Saigon.

1852
01:27:02,384 --> 01:27:03,760
Okay, let's go down.

1853
01:27:03,844 --> 01:27:04,844
That's a great shot.

1854
01:27:04,886 --> 01:27:06,406
After the bomb
she cannot find the house.

1855
01:27:06,430 --> 01:27:07,305
Isn't that terrible?

1856
01:27:07,389 --> 01:27:08,549
She says, "where's my house?"

1857
01:27:08,598 --> 01:27:10,118
- And where is this?
- A lot of houses.

1858
01:27:10,142 --> 01:27:11,435
Very close to trang bang too.

1859
01:27:11,518 --> 01:27:12,728
Oh, really?

1860
01:27:13,311 --> 01:27:15,230
Oh, and Bette Davis,
you have already?

1861
01:27:15,313 --> 01:27:16,481
Not yet.

1862
01:27:17,566 --> 01:27:20,193
That's an amazing shot.
I haven't seen this before.

1863
01:27:20,277 --> 01:27:21,069
Where is that?

1864
01:27:21,153 --> 01:27:23,238
[Nick] Monterey park.
That's my son.

1865
01:27:23,321 --> 01:27:24,364
Wow.

1866
01:27:24,448 --> 01:27:26,324
You know, I've never
seen that before.

1867
01:27:26,992 --> 01:27:29,870
We have the woman. We have this.
We have this, this, this.

1868
01:27:29,953 --> 01:27:31,621
I think that's good, you know.

1869
01:27:31,705 --> 01:27:34,666
So let's get this
on to my hard drive.

1870
01:27:52,559 --> 01:27:54,686
[Nick] Very excited
for Leica show.

1871
01:27:54,770 --> 01:27:57,147
They told me over four
or five hundred people

1872
01:27:57,230 --> 01:27:58,230
come here tonight.

1873
01:28:01,735 --> 01:28:03,735
[Paris] I have been trying
to get Nick to show here

1874
01:28:03,779 --> 01:28:05,155
since I met him
when I started here

1875
01:28:05,238 --> 01:28:07,115
five years ago at Leica.

1876
01:28:07,199 --> 01:28:09,618
He's been so busy,
so I finally had to wait

1877
01:28:09,701 --> 01:28:11,870
till he "retired", you know,
to get him here.

1878
01:28:11,953 --> 01:28:13,705
So I'm really happy
to have him here.

1879
01:28:18,126 --> 01:28:21,338
I think the world knows him
as a famous documentary

1880
01:28:21,421 --> 01:28:23,340
pulitzer prize winning
photographer.

1881
01:28:24,049 --> 01:28:26,384
And we see him as

1882
01:28:26,468 --> 01:28:28,428
a fine arts photographer
as well.

1883
01:28:28,512 --> 01:28:30,806
And I don't think enough people
know that about him.

1884
01:28:30,889 --> 01:28:32,849
As you can see,
some of his current work

1885
01:28:32,933 --> 01:28:35,185
is very impressive and relevant.

1886
01:28:36,269 --> 01:28:38,897
[Mark] If there's hot news
that happens anywhere Nick is,

1887
01:28:38,980 --> 01:28:40,524
he's gonna be the first one in.

1888
01:28:40,607 --> 01:28:42,943
That will always
be part of Nick.

1889
01:28:43,026 --> 01:28:45,529
But I think the subject matter
is gonna change

1890
01:28:45,612 --> 01:28:48,698
in terms of really
seeking out beauty.

1891
01:28:48,782 --> 01:28:51,701
[Paris] My favorite photograph
in this show tonight

1892
01:28:51,785 --> 01:28:53,119
is the snow monkey.

1893
01:28:53,203 --> 01:28:55,121
I don't know,
it's just so different

1894
01:28:55,205 --> 01:28:56,748
than what you're used to
seeing him do.

1895
01:28:56,832 --> 01:28:58,834
And the monkey's so passionate

1896
01:28:58,917 --> 01:29:00,335
and loving and sweet.

1897
01:29:00,418 --> 01:29:03,588
And I just love it.
I think it's really cool.

1898
01:29:03,672 --> 01:29:05,757
And I think I'm gonna have to
try to get that

1899
01:29:05,841 --> 01:29:07,592
into my collection somehow.

1900
01:29:10,887 --> 01:29:12,973
[Peter] What you see,
almost routine

1901
01:29:13,056 --> 01:29:14,683
in social media today,

1902
01:29:14,766 --> 01:29:17,519
the impact of a photograph

1903
01:29:17,602 --> 01:29:21,356
that stirs the interest
and sympathy

1904
01:29:22,357 --> 01:29:25,527
of thousands, maybe millions,
of viewers,

1905
01:29:25,610 --> 01:29:28,446
and they're all responding
and talking about

1906
01:29:28,530 --> 01:29:29,614
what's going on.

1907
01:29:30,323 --> 01:29:34,619
So Nick ut and Kim phuc
were way ahead of that curve.

1908
01:29:34,703 --> 01:29:38,331
[Kim] I wish uncle ut continued
to do with his gift.

1909
01:29:38,415 --> 01:29:40,125
Loudly, I want to say,

1910
01:29:40,208 --> 01:29:42,711
"uncle ut, continue
to take a picture.

1911
01:29:43,378 --> 01:29:44,754
Wherever you want.

1912
01:29:44,838 --> 01:29:46,423
Because you did a good job."

1913
01:29:51,386 --> 01:29:52,929
[Nick] I had an amazing life.

1914
01:29:53,013 --> 01:29:55,390
I'm retired from ap,
but I'm not done yet.

1915
01:29:55,473 --> 01:29:56,850
Still more coming.

1916
01:29:57,601 --> 01:30:00,186
[David] It's a tribute to Nick
that we're friends.

1917
01:30:00,270 --> 01:30:02,147
And good ones, at that.

1918
01:30:02,856 --> 01:30:06,109
He won't ever
let you off the hook.

1919
01:30:06,192 --> 01:30:08,862
He calls, he stays in touch.

1920
01:30:08,945 --> 01:30:11,448
He insists on friendship.

1921
01:30:11,531 --> 01:30:14,075
We have a whole
shared background.

1922
01:30:14,159 --> 01:30:17,495
We share the Vietnam war.
We share the pulitzer prize.

1923
01:30:17,579 --> 01:30:21,458
We share a lot of experiences
that other people haven't.

1924
01:30:21,541 --> 01:30:25,337
But I think what we really share
is a faith in humanity

1925
01:30:25,420 --> 01:30:29,299
than transcends
all the things we've seen.

1926
01:30:29,382 --> 01:30:30,842
Because we shouldn't have that.

1927
01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:32,969
[Kim] I want to say,

1928
01:30:33,053 --> 01:30:34,053
"thank you,

1929
01:30:34,554 --> 01:30:35,805
uncle ut.

1930
01:30:35,889 --> 01:30:38,183
You are my hero.

1931
01:30:39,225 --> 01:30:40,644
And I'll never forget.

1932
01:30:41,394 --> 01:30:43,271
And I love you, uncle ut."

1933
01:30:49,569 --> 01:30:52,447
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