"The goal of The Associated Press as a global news organization is to report the facts," the AP said in a statement to TheWrap. "When we became aware of this film and its allegations broadly, we took them very seriously and began investigating.

After a half-century of public silence, a freelance photographer from Vietnam has asserted he took one of the most renowned and impactful photos of the 20th century — the image of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack in South Vietnam that has long been credited to a staff photographer from The Associated Press.