Le Minh Thai, Vietnam War photographer for US media, dies at 93 in California
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Le Minh Thai, a photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War for The Associated Press and Time Life, has died. He was 93.
His daughter, Quynh Thai, told the AP Press on Friday that her father died Oct. 10 at a nursing home in Encinitas, California.
His daughter says her father was a member of the Saigon press corps.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}She says Thai worked for the AP in the 1950s and later for Time Life, covering his country's civil war.
The family says Thai had strong contacts both in the government and the military brass of South Vietnam and was well-known for helping foreign journalists navigate their way through his homeland.
His family says the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, requested that Thai take his official portrait in 1967.