New documentary about HLM CC and Pulitzer Prize winner Eddie Adams

Photographer and Honorary Life Member of the CCs, Eddie Adams (1933-2004) took pictures of hundreds of celebrities and politicians — everyone from Fidel Castro to Mother Teresa to Arnold Schwarzenegger (whom he posed in a bathtub with a little yellow rubber duck–for the cover of Parade magazine) — but some of his best-known images come from his work during the Vietnam War.

Filmmaker Susan Morgan Cooper has made a film about Eddie’s life, An Unlikely Weapon (narrated by Kiefer Sutherland). Cooper interviewed Adams, as well as his friends and colleagues–Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Gordon Parks, Rod Steiger, Eric Baldwin, Mark Anthony and lots of others.

One photo is so iconic that it is the picture most people think of when they think of Vietnam: a Vietnamese general in Saigon executing a Viet Cong suspect. But the Pulitzer Prize Adams won for this photograph left him pained and conflicted for the rest of his life.

No war was ever photographed the way Vietnam was, and no war will ever be photographed again that way again. There was no censorship. All a photographer had to do was to convince a helicopter pilot to let him get on board a chopper going out to a battle zone.

 To hear Irene Rawlings from radio station KBCO, 97.3, interview filmmaker Susan Morgan Cooper about her new film, An Unlikely Weapon please click here.