On Friday, the World Press Photo Foundation, a prominent international non-profit, weighed in. It said that a months-long investigation had found that two other photojournalists “may have been better positioned to take the photograph than Nick Ut”, and it was suspending his credit for the image. That means the credit and caption in its online archives will be updated to include the doubts raised by its investigation. Ut’s lawyer, James Hornstein, has repeatedly disputed the film’s claims and called them “defamatory”. He said in a statement that the World Press Photo decision was “deplorable and unprofessional” and “reveals how low the organisation has fallen”. Hornstein declined to make Ut available for an interview. The AP, after spending nearly a year investigating, said this month that it would continue to credit the photo to Ut. A lengthy report from the investigation said he was in position to take the photo and cites evidence to support that position, but concluded that no proof had been found. It also says other photographers were in position to take the photo, but there’s no proof they did, either. “As our report explains in great detail, there’s simply not enough hard evidence or fact to remove the credit from Nick Ut, and it’s impossible for anyone to know with certainty how exactly things played out on the road in the space of a few minutes over half a century ago,” said Derl McCrudden, the AP’s vice president and head of global news production.