Calendar – Past Event

The Quad Theatre
34 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011

April 10th - 16th, 2009

http://www.quadcinema.com/

Produced and directed by Susan Morgan Cooper and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, An Unlikely Weapon is the chilling story behind a photograph that some say ended the Vietnam War. In 1968, while covering the war for the Associated Press, Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nguyen Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. Ironically, it was Adams' shot that was heard around the world, taken at 1/500th of a second! The photo brought Adams' fame and a Pulitzer, but the man he had vilified haunted him. Adams would later say, "Two lives were destroyed that day - the victim's and the general." Yet others would say, three lives were destroyed. The film will be opening in New York on April 10th, 2009 at The Quad.