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- Birth nameEdward Thomas Adams
- Eddie Adams was born on June 12, 1933 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Caligula (1979), First Kill (2001) and An Unlikely Weapon (2008). He was married to Alyssa Adkins and Ann Fedorchak. He died on September 19, 2004 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesAlyssa Adkins(1989 - September 19, 2004) (his death, 1 child)Ann Fedorchak (divorced, 3 children)
- Photojournalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for a photograph taken on a street in Saigon during Vietnam War on 1 February 1968. It shows a South Vietnamese general using a pistol to execute a suspected Viet Cong leader.
- His photograph of South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, shooting a prisoner in the head on Feb. 1, 1968, was one of the Vietnam War's most indelible images.
- In addition to photographing 13 wars, his images of politics, fashion and show business appeared on countless magazine covers and newspapers around the world. His portraits of presidents ranged from Nixon to Bush, and those of world figures included Pope John Paul II, Deng Xiaoping, Anwar Sadat, Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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