AP – FILE- This Feb 18, 1969 file photo shows Dutch photographer Hugh Van Es in a Macao cafe. Van Es, a photojournalist …
Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 — a group of people scaling a ladder to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop — died Friday morning in Hong Kong, his wife said. He was 67 years old.
Van Es died in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, where he had lived for more than 35 years. He suffered a brain hemorrhage last week and never regained consciousness, his wife Annie said. Hospital officials declined to comment. >>>>>Rest Here
Vietnam photographer Van Es dies
The image came to be seen as a symbol of the failure of US policy in the war.
His wife of 39 years, Annie, said he had never regained consciousness after a brain haemorrhage last week.
Mr Van Es moved from the Netherlands to Hong Kong in 1967.
He covered the Vietnam War between 1969 and 1975, working first for the Associated Press new agency and then for United Press International.......
Another of 'Nam's photo journalist passes, Hugh dies shortly after Eddie Adams. I have a post up placed shortly after his passing: You can view here
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