Saigon Execution – Eddie Adams, 1st of February 1968. Published by Associated Press in the New York Times on the 2nd of February 1968 When the New York Times published Eddie Adams photograph “Saigon Exection”[1] it was in the wake of one of the most devastating losses that the United States had felt during the war to date, the Tet Offensive[2]. The protest movement was growing as transformation of the United States public opinion on Vietnam grew with increased media coverage