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Adams, Alyssa
Alyssa Adams is the second wife of the late Eddie Adams, the combat photographer that won a Pulitzer prize for the image of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He later regretted the damage the…
Armitage, Richard L.
Richard L. Armitage is a former American naval officer and Vietnamese language speaker who served three combat tours of duty during the Vietnam War. In this interview, he discusses one of his missions, which was to deny the enemy the use of important…
Arnett, Peter
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Peter Arnett discusses the debates on policy and strategy relating to the Vietnam War and his experiences reporting for the Associated Press in Saigon beginning in 1966. Arnett was one of the last western reporters in…
Buell, Hal
Hal Buell was in charge of AP Photos during the Vietnam War from 1967 until the end of the war out of the AP office in New York. He describes how photographs were transferred out of Vietnam via radio beams and the political impact of certain images,…
Dang, Vo Thuy and Linda Trinh Vo
Linda Trinh Vo, (professor of Asian American Studies) and Thuy Vo Dang (project director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project) describe the UC Irvine Southeast Asian Archive, that focuses on collecting materials about Cambodian, Laos and…
Denney, Stephen
Stephen Denney, from the UC Berkeley Library, Main Library, discusses human rights issues in Vietnam, an interest that he cultivated from his fourteen-year tenure working in the Indochina Archives with Douglas Pike. He co-authored a book along with…
Harper, Randall and Shirley
Dr. Randall Harper and Shirely Harper recall fond memories of their relationship with Dr. Duc Tran and pharmacist Tuyet Tran. They helped in the resettlement process for the Tran family, including gifting a used car to them so that the couple would…
Hsu, Madeline
Dr. Madeline Hsu served as the director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She details her research interests and her editorial work and speaks about the importance of Asian American studies as a field of…
Kumar, T
T Kumar work as Director for International Advocacy for Amnesty International USA. Investigations into human rights abuses in Vietnam have been difficult given the limited access in an official capacity to the country, so the organization has…
Kumin, Judith
Judith Kumin retired from a 32 year career working for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. She discusses the UNHCR response to the postwar Indochinese refugee crisis, including the Orderly Departure Program (1979 -1994) that helped to…