“I took the photo of [Phan Thi] Kim Phuc,” Ut wrote in a statement Wednesday ... Nghe claims in the film that he actually took the famous image, which landed at the AP as a freelancer photo.

In 2022 both Kim Phúc and Ut, whom she affectionately calls ‘uncle’, presented the Pope with a copy of the image. The AP and Ut have long claimed that Ut, then 21, took the photo that earned ...

Kim was 9 years old when her photo was taken by Associated ... her Communist-occupied village. Kim Phuc Phan Thi, the “The Napalm Girl” in the famous 1972 Associated Press Vietnam photograph ...