Saigon Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan tells reports "These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive me" and walks up to a captive Vietcong guerrilla and shots him in the head at point blank range. This image, and the footage captured by an NBC News team, is published around the world. America was stunned and the world gasped at the brutality. Loan was never prosecuted. He narrowly escaped South Vietnam in the closing days of the war in 1975, and eventually resettled in Virginia where he opened a pizzeria. He lived there quietly until 1991 when he identity was discovered and he closed the pizzeria. He died of cancer in 1998.
