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1977 Spot News: Brutality in Bangkok:
October 1976: Thailand's third government in two years was teetering. Late one night, right-wing vocational students lynched two left-wing university students.
AP photographer Neal Ulevich had covered the Vietnam War. Yet he was "very scared" the morning on Oct. 6, when paramilitary troops fired every which way at the battling students. "Tremendous volleys" flew across soccer fields and into the classrooms. "There were bodies all over... no place to take cover."
When the left-wing students gave up, Ulevich headed for the gates. He saw a body hanging, a crowd so enraged "that a man was hitting the body on the head with a folding chair." Ulevich took a few frames. He walked away. No one noticed. When he won the Pulitzer, Bangkok newspapers reported the local photographer's feat on Page One. They did not print the photos. |