Nick ut napalm girl paris hilton

Nick Ut will commemorate a pair of anniversaries today — both stemming from iconic photographs he snapped of two tearful girls in the throes of terror.

On June 8, 2007, he took a rare picture of Paris Hilton, crying, mouth agape, wily bangs tumbling across her forehead, in the rear of a Los Angeles police car hauling her off to jail.

On June 8, 1972, he pressed the shutter button of his Leica M2 and captured 9-year-old Kim Phúc, her clothes burned off from napalm, running for her life against the backdrop of her smoldering South Vietnamese village.

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“Same day, almost same hour.

Hilton and Kim Phúc have same hair, both crying. Everything same,” Ut told the Daily News.

But, he added, there is one major difference.

“Nobody cried for Paris Hilton, but everybody cried for Kim Phúc,” he said.

The two images, separated by 35 years, quickly circled the globe, stirring