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Same Enemy with Different Blindfolds: South Vietnamese Rangers covered the eyes of these Vietcong guerrillas with different types of blindfolds after capturing them on a sweep through swampy paddies about 50 miles southwest of Saigon. Enemy at left has a white undershirt around his eyes, the one in center a checkered bandana with white sun helmet while man at right has a black shirt worn like a turban with only his nostrils exposed, May 29, 1967
Same Enemy with Different Blindfolds: South Vietnamese Rangers covered the eyes of these Vietcong guerrillas with different types of blindfolds after capturing them on a sweep through swampy paddies about 50 miles southwest of Saigon. Enemy at left has a white undershirt around his eyes, the one in center a checkered bandana with white sun helmet while man at right has a black shirt worn like a turban with only his nostrils exposed, May 29, 1967

Same Enemy with Different Blindfolds: South Vietnamese Rangers covered the eyes of these Vietcong guerrillas with different types of blindfolds after capturing them on a sweep through swampy paddies about 50 miles southwest of Saigon. Enemy at left has a white undershirt around his eyes, the one in center a checkered bandana with white sun helmet while man at right has a black shirt worn like a turban with only his nostrils exposed, May 29, 1967

Maker
Date5/29/1967
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions4 /4 x 7(?) inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2025.315
Status
Not on view
Watching for South Vietnam Reds: An armed South Vietnam marine sits by a tree in jungle area at Ap Tan Long, his eyes sharpened for the sign of Communist Viet Cong guerillas. He and fellow marines searched in the jungles for the Viet Cong who has death a blow against government defense forces in the Ap Tan Long area recently. The reds had ambushed the defenders, killing 24 and capturing 40 others, including the wounded district chief, March 12, 1962
Watching for South Vietnam Reds: An armed South Vietnam marine sits by a tree in jungle area at Ap Tan Long, his eyes sharpened for the sign of Communist Viet Cong guerillas. He and fellow marines searched in the jungles for the Viet Cong who has death a blow against government defense forces in the Ap Tan Long area recently. The reds had ambushed the defenders, killing 24 and capturing 40 others, including the wounded district chief, March 12, 1962
Unidentified Artist
3/12/1962
President for Life: President "Papa Doc" Duvalier of Haiti sits on top steps of Palace in Port au Prince, surrounded by his guards. Occasion was his third anniversary as president for life of the Caribbean negro nation. Duvalier has just emerged from another Haitian crisis and observers see no end soon to his despotic rule, June 1967
President for Life: President "Papa Doc" Duvalier of Haiti sits on top steps of Palace in Port au Prince, surrounded by his guards. Occasion was his third anniversary as president for life of the Caribbean negro nation. Duvalier has just emerged from another Haitian crisis and observers see no end soon to his despotic rule, June 1967
Eddie Adams
6/1/1967
Says His Brother Is The Boss: Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, is pictured today during news interview in Saigon. Nhu said he has no political ambitions and that his brother is boss of his country. Nhu and the president both expressed hope for a quick return to normalcy from South Vietnam’s political-religious crisis. Both forecast an improvement in strained relations with the U.S., September 5, 1963
Says His Brother Is The Boss: Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, is pictured today during news interview in Saigon. Nhu said he has no political ambitions and that his brother is boss of his country. Nhu and the president both expressed hope for a quick return to normalcy from South Vietnam’s political-religious crisis. Both forecast an improvement in strained relations with the U.S., September 5, 1963
Horst Faas
9/5/1963
He Has A Stake: Albro Gregory expounds on his favorite subject— Alaska— during a stop for refreshment in Nome. "The point," he says is that "we Alaskans who do live here do have a stake in the land. That’s why we resent all interference from outside," October 29, 1970
He Has A Stake: Albro Gregory expounds on his favorite subject— Alaska— during a stop for refreshment in Nome. "The point," he says is that "we Alaskans who do live here do have a stake in the land. That’s why we resent all interference from outside," October 29, 1970
Eddie Adams
10/29/1970
Declares Candidacy: This is the Coconut Monk, who has declared his candidacy for president in this fall’s Vietnam elections. He heads a peace commune of several thousand followers on Phuong Hoang Island in the Mekong Delta, April 1971
Declares Candidacy: This is the Coconut Monk, who has declared his candidacy for president in this fall’s Vietnam elections. He heads a peace commune of several thousand followers on Phuong Hoang Island in the Mekong Delta, April 1971
Unidentified Artist
4/1/1971
On The Road Again: A Vietnamese youngster flees renewed fighting on the two wooden legs he has used since he lost his limbs in a mine explosion some years ago. The boy and thousands of civilians were fleeing fighting between government forces and North Vietnamese troops recently in the Duc Duc district, south of Da Nang, South Vietnam
On The Road Again: A Vietnamese youngster flees renewed fighting on the two wooden legs he has used since he lost his limbs in a mine explosion some years ago. The boy and thousands of civilians were fleeing fighting between government forces and North Vietnamese troops recently in the Duc Duc district, south of Da Nang, South Vietnam
Unidentified Artist
1974
Congressional Cameraman: Senator Allen J. Ellender Jr., Democrat from Louisiana, shoots some movies "for the folks back home" during his recent tour of refugee resettlement villages in South Vietnam. Ellender, who has voiced criticism of certain aspects of the U.S. Foreign Aid Program, praised the U.S.-financed program to find new homes for the estimated 600,000 Vietnamese who left the Communist North after the 1954 Geneva Truce. He contends that the U.S. is spending too much money for military aid and on its information program, October 1965
Congressional Cameraman: Senator Allen J. Ellender Jr., Democrat from Louisiana, shoots some movies "for the folks back home" during his recent tour of refugee resettlement villages in South Vietnam. Ellender, who has voiced criticism of certain aspects of the U.S. Foreign Aid Program, praised the U.S.-financed program to find new homes for the estimated 600,000 Vietnamese who left the Communist North after the 1954 Geneva Truce. He contends that the U.S. is spending too much money for military aid and on its information program, October 1965
Unidentified Artist
10/1/1965
Ky Still Holds Key of Government: Nguyen Cao Ky, above, became premier of South Vietnam a year ago Sunday. The 35-year-old Air Force General is slowly emerging as an astute politician. He takes things in stride A favorite expression is "I am a fatalist." So far he has, against heavy odds, brushed aside all attempts to overthrow his regime, June 14, 1966
Ky Still Holds Key of Government: Nguyen Cao Ky, above, became premier of South Vietnam a year ago Sunday. The 35-year-old Air Force General is slowly emerging as an astute politician. He takes things in stride A favorite expression is "I am a fatalist." So far he has, against heavy odds, brushed aside all attempts to overthrow his regime, June 14, 1966
Unidentified Artist
6/14/1966
Image Not Available for Armed Bust: Two Eyes
Armed Bust: Two Eyes
Bernard Meadows
1965
A Stout Beggar with Cast-down Eyes (Le mendiant obèse aux yeux baissés)
A Stout Beggar with Cast-down Eyes (Le mendiant obèse aux yeux baissés)
Jacques Callot
n.d.
Untitled (close-up of man with cloudy eyes)
Untitled (close-up of man with cloudy eyes)
Robert Natkin
1952 - 53
Covering the Approaches: American Marines with automatic weapons keep their eyes on street in Hue, the ancient capital of Vietnam, during the street fighting between themselves and combined Vietcong-North Vietnamese forces, February 1968
Covering the Approaches: American Marines with automatic weapons keep their eyes on street in Hue, the ancient capital of Vietnam, during the street fighting between themselves and combined Vietcong-North Vietnamese forces, February 1968
Unidentified Artist
2/1/1968