Editing Nick Ut (section)

===Nick Ut's story===
Before delivering his film with photographs, Ut set his camera aside to rush 9-year-old Kim Phuc to a hospital, where doctors saved her life. He said: "I cried when I saw her running... If I don’t help her, if something happened and she died, I think I’d kill myself after that".<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-nick-ut-retirement-20170313-story.html |title= 'Napalm Girl' photographer Nick Ut looks back at a career that included war's carnage and Hollywood's red carpets |author= [[Associated Press]] |work= [[Los Angeles Times]] |date= March 13, 2017 |access-date= March 19, 2024 |archive-date= March 19, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240319111032/https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-nick-ut-retirement-20170313-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

{{blockquote|... an editor at the AP rejected the photo of Kim Phuc running down the road without clothing because it showed frontal nudity. Pictures of nudes of all ages and sexes, and especially frontal views were an absolute no-no at the Associated Press in 1972&nbsp;... [[Horst Faas|Horst]] argued by [[telex]] with the New York head-office that an exception must be made, with the compromise that no close-up of the girl Kim Phuc alone would be transmitted. The New York photo editor, [[Hal Buell]], agreed that the news value of the photograph overrode any reservations about nudity.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Faas |first1=Horst |author1-link=Horst Faas |last2=Fulton |first2=Marianne |title=How the Picture Reached the World |url= https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/ng4.htm |issue=8 |work=[[The Digital Journalist]] |access-date= March 19, 2024 |archive-date= March 19, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240319141921/https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/ng4.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>|Nick Ut}}

In 2022, he gave a copy of the photograph to [[Pope Francis]].<ref>{{cite news|title= Fotograaf geeft wereldberoemde foto van 'napalmmeisje' aan paus |work= [[Nederlandse Omroep Stichting|NOS]]  |language= nl |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2428429-fotograaf-geeft-wereldberoemde-foto-van-napalmmeisje-aan-paus |date=May 11, 2022|access-date= May 16, 2025  }}</ref>