Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl': 'There was fire everywhere around me.'
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is in conversation with Kim Phuc, who shares her story about that photo, the war, and her work since then.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews Producer: Alys Bowen
Podcast Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:01.0 | I'm looking at an old, grainy, black and white photograph. |
| 1:06.0 | Five young children are in the front of frame |
| 1:09.0 | on a park-marked highway moving with a group of soldiers. |
| 1:13.6 | Your eyes go first to the boy closest to the camera, simply dressed in shorts and shirt. |
| 1:21.6 | He appears to be crying, his eyes closed and mouth open. |
| 1:25.6 | Behind him, another boy, surely no more than three looks |
| 1:29.9 | fearfully over his shoulder at an out-of-focus grey mass where the horizon should be. |
| 1:37.1 | Another pair of children, hand in hand on the right, a boy and maybe his older sister, that |
| 1:42.5 | you realise are running towards the photographer. |
| 1:46.0 | And in almost the exact centre of the shot, a nine-year-old girl, arms outstretched as if seeking a hug. |
| 1:54.0 | She is completely naked. It is not her nakedness that is shocking, however. It's her face. |
| 2:01.8 | She looks straight at you down the barrel of the lens, |
| 2:05.3 | screaming in pain and in terror. |
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