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Welsh photojournalist

Philip Jones Griffiths (18 February 1936 – 19 March 2008) was a Welshphotojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.

Biography

Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan in Denbighshire, North Wales, to Joseph Griffiths, who supervised the local trucking service of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and Catherine Jones, Rhuddlan's district nurse, who ran a small maternity clinic at home.^[1] The couple had three sons, of whom Philip was the eldest.

On leaving St Asaph's Grammar School at age 18, Philip, a pacifist and member of the Peace Pledge Union, was registered by the North Western Tribunal as a conscientious objector, obviating conscription to military service.^{[2][better source needed]}

He studied pharmacy in Liverpool and worked in London as the night manager at the Piccadilly branch of Boots, while also working as a part-time photographer for the Manchester Guardia