Paul Schutzer (1930 – 5 June 1967) was an American
photojournalist
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Life
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'' magazine, famous for his "The Blunt Reality of the War in Vietnam" cover photo. He died on assignment while embedded with
Israeli troops on the first day of the
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...
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1930 births
1967 deaths
20th-century American photographers
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