:File:Waterboarding a captured North Vietnamese soldier near Da Nang.jpeg

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| description = This image depicts a North Vietnamese POW being waterboarded by two U.S soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier. Although the Washington Post described waterboarding as common, the publicity led to one of the U.S. soldiers being court-martialed for his role in the torture.

| source = The immediate source for the image is [https://aeon.co/essays/an-ordinary-person-becomes-a-torturer-with-surprising-ease "The interrogator’s soul"] by Shane O'Mara (neuroscientist).

The image was published on 21 January 1968 on the cover of the Washington Post, without a copyright notice for UPI, the image's copyright holder. It was also published in the following newspapers that had no copyright notice:

:*[https://www.newspapers.com/image/404629295/ Dayton Daily News]

:*[https://www.newspapers.com/image/112117840/ The Tennessean]

:*[https://www.newspapers.com/image/377029334/ The Baltimore Sun]

:*[https://www.newspapers.com/image/592500617/ Kingsport Time-News]

:*[https://www.newspapers.com/image/295201350/ The Press Democrat]

:*[https://www.newspapers.com/image/227878948/ Daily World]

(All credit goes to User:Toohool for discovering these uses!)

| date = Taken 17 January 1968 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html]. Published 21 January 1968.

| author = Uncredited photographer. Distributed by United Press International.

| permission = PD-US-no-notice

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| additional_information = Based on the precedent of :File:Execution of Nguyen Van Lem.jpg, which was kept at FFD, "Copyright was therefore forfeited per section 9 of the Copyright Act of 1909, which required that notice of copyright be affixed to every published copy."

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