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Witnesses in Nick Ut's Defamation Trial Against Netflix Include 'Napalm Girl' Herself

PetaPixel·Matt Growcoot·4 days ago
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The two surviving negatives of ‘Napalm Girl’ held by the AP. | Associated Press Lawyers for Nick Ut have filed a detailed legal submission to a court in France, which will hear a criminal defamation case brought against Netflix and the VII Foundation over claims made in The Stringer documentary . The submissions to the court, viewed by PetaPixel , include testimony by many key witnesses who were present on the day the famous Napalm Girl photo was taken. Photographer David Burnett , who was on the road in Trang Bang on June 8, 1972, says he witnessed Ut racing toward the village that had just been hit by a napalm strike. Burnett says he doesn’t believe that Nguyen Thanh Nghe — the person The Stringer names as the real author of Napalm Girl — was ever in a position to capture the iconic photo. Burnett missed the moment because he was swapping the film in his camera.…

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