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Did Horst Faas Really Switch the Credit on ‘Napalm Girl’? His Archivist Says Not

Did Horst Faas Really Switch the Credit on ‘Napalm Girl’? His Archivist Says Not

A war photographer with cameras around his neck stands in front of a blurred background showing children and soldiers running on a road, overlaid with a film strip.

If there is a villain in The Stringer documentary, then it is not so much Nick Ut, the AP photographer who has long been credited with taking the famous Napalm Girl photograph, but Horst Faas, the Chief of Photos in Saigon who allegedly swapped the credit on Napalm Girl.

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