Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. Photojournalism allows for a moment in time to be instantaneously captured. What is the photograph of, or what is its title? How might it have impacted Americans after looking at this image?

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This photograph is known as “Saigon Execution,” taken by Eddie Adams in 1968. It shows South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong prisoner, in Saigon. Seeing the execution could have shocked Americans and made the violence of the Vietnam War feel immediate and real. The image may have strengthened antiwar sentiment and increased public opposition to U.S. involvement.