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Photo Collections and Videos
AP interactive site on mass killings in South Korea, http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_international/korea_masskillings/index.html?SITE=AP.
Donald Nichols execution photos in Lieutenant Colonel Bob E. Edwards, “Photographs of Communist Execution at Seoul, Korea,” April 26, 1950. RG 319, entry (NM-3) 85A, Records of the Army Staff, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff (G-2), Intelligence, Collections and Dissemination Division, Document Library Branch, Army Intelligence Document File, 1950–55, container 4273A, ID #66337, National Archives, College Park, MD.
Taejon massacre photos in Lieutenant Colonel Bob E. Edwards, “Execution of Political Prisoners in Korea.” Report No. R-189-50, Records of the Army Staff, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff (G-2), Intelligence, Collections and Dissemination Division. Document Library Branch, Army Intelligence Document File, 1950–55, RG-319, box 4622, National Archives, College Park, MD.