The photojournalism of Eddie Adams – in pictures
He was best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning photo, Saigon Execution, but Eddie Adams won over 500 awards for his work, throughout a 50-year career. Starting as a photographer in the marines, he covered war zones, refugees, riots and celebrities. Eddie Adams: Bigger Than The Frame is published by the University of Texas Press
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A soldier gets his boots shined during riots in Detroit, July 1967
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Malcom X, New York, 1964
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Marilyn Monroe visits troops in Korea during a USO tour, 1954
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South Vietnamese national police chief Brig General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, February 1968
Photograph: AP
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Louis Armstrong in his dressing room at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1970
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Marine Corps recruit depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, 1970
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Servicemen lift President John F Kennedy’s casket off a caisson in front of the Capitol, 24 November 1963
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A Viet Cong soldier killed during the Tet Offensive, Cholon, Saigon, Vietnam, 1968
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Leila Khaled, who hijacked a TWA airliner to Damascus in 1969, at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon 1970
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Zora Folley and Muhammad Ali during the WBA World Heavyweight fight in March 1967
