Neil Davis was one of the world’s greatest cinecameramen and journalists from the early 1960s until he was killed in September 1985, bringing images of war on three continents to the world’s television screens. But it is for his coverage of the conflict in Indo-China that he is best remembered. He went into the field with the Viet Cong as well as American Forces in Vietnam and filmed the war in Cambodia and Laos. And he scooped the world with his film of the taking of Saigon’s Presidential Palace in 1975 - the symbol of American defeat.
