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Vu, Chieu-Anh
Chieu Anh Vu is a fashion designer and 1.5 generation Vietnamese with Dutch, Canadian and American identities. She describes her birth at sea after her parents escaped the Fall of Saigon on a ship. She expresses her passion for her career and…
Nguyễn, Thị Hạnh Nhơn
Nguyen Thi Hanh Nhon was born in 1927 in Hue, Vietnam. Her father was a high-ranking official under Emperor Bao Dai. Under the French regime, she served in the corps of females assistants, which later became the corps of female soldiers under the…
Bui, Diem
Bui Diem was born in 1923 in Ha Nam. Along with many friends and family members, Bui Diem joined the Greater Vietnam Nationalist Party (GVNP) from a young age to fight the French for independence. At the beginning of the First Indochina War, VNP…
Lu, Anh Thu
Lu Anh Thu has been an active board member since 2003 for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington D.C. The foundation was established in 1993 through a congressional act signed by President Clinton. The mission is to educate this…
Nguyen, Nam Loc
Nam Loc Nguyen discusses his involvement as director for the Immigration and Refugee department for Catholic Charities, in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He begins with the story of how he, himself, was a refugee that fled from Saigon on April 27,…
Tran, Tuyet
Tuyet Tran describes the hectic last days before the Fall of Saigon, her escape by airplane to the refugee camp of Guam, and her life adjusting in the United States. She recounts her struggles raising three children in a new country, learning a new…
Turner, Robert Foster
University of Virginia School of Law professor, Dr. Robert Turner, discusses the United States involvement in Vietnam in the geopolitical context of international communist movements, Vietnamese nationalism, French colonialism in Indochina and…
Parker, James E.
James E. Parker, ex-CIA agent and author of 'Last Man Out: A Personal Account of the Vietnam War' (2008) and 'The Vietnam War: Its Ownself' (2015) discusses his perspectives on the Vietnam War based on his personal experience.
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Tang, Can
Can Tang worked with the United States CIA during the Vietnam War. Postwar, he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp by the new communist government until his family bribed an official to release him in 1983. He escaped Vietnam in a small boat from…
Woo, Christina J.
Christina J. Woo, research librarian for the Southeast Asian Archive at the UCI Libraries shows and discusses refugee artworks in the collection by Paul Tran, a journalist who visited refugee camps in Southeast Asia. There are between 400-500…