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Võ, Văn Bằng
Vo Van Bang was born in the city of Hue, Thua Thien, Vietnam, where he later served as council member. He was present during the early stages of the Tet Offensive of 1968. He recalls hearing gun shots from the North Vietnamese Army and fleeing to…
Nguyen, Thanh Chieu
Nguyen Thanh Chieu also known by his pen name, Thanh Thuong Hoang, was a journalist, novelist, and war correspondent in Vietnam between 1953 and 1975. His grandfather and father were both part of the anti-colonial resistance. He recounts what he…
Meadows, Charles
Chuck Meadows is a retired American Marine who was first deployed to Vietnam back in 1965. He details his training and his assignments while he was in Vietnam during the war and the multiple tours he participated in. He also describes what he saw and…
Yablonka, Marc Phillip
Marc Yablonka holds a Master's of Professional Writing degree earned from the University of Southern California and has worked as a military journalist and as an adjunct professor of English. He has written the book Distant War: Recollections of…
Pyle, Richard
Richard Pyle, a retired correspondent for the Associated Press, discusses his coverage of the Vietnam War between 1968 and 1973. He reflects on the potential power of images to influence public perceptions of war and what role journalists and…
Ut, Huynh Cong (Nick)
Huỳnh Công Út, known as Nick Ut, recounts his experiences as a photojournalist and his Pulitzer-prize-winning photo, that of the napalm bombing of the village of Trang Bang, where he photographed a nine-year-old unclothed and badly burned Kim Phuc…
Dinh, Quang Thai
Vietnamese language interview with Thai Quang Dinh about his experiences as a journalist and as a boat person looking for refuge after the Vietnam War.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
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…
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,…
North, Don
Don North was a photojournalist and radio reporter during the Vietnam War beginning in 1964. In 1968, he reported on the attack of the US Embassy by Viet Cong guerrillas during the Tet Offensive.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the…