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Rosenblatt, Lionel
Lionel Rosenblatt discusses his experiences as a former foreign service officer with the CORDS program in Vietnam, whose goal was to gain support from the rural population for the government of South Vietnam. He organized a way to evacuate by air…
Moorefield, Kenneth P.
Kenneth Moorefield, Deputy Inspector General for the Department of Defense, discusses his deployment to Vietnam as an adviser in the lower Mekong Delta providing training and weapons to the South Vietnamese from 1967 until he was wounded in April of…
Nguyen, Phuoc Khoa
Vietnamese language interview with Phuoc Khoa Nguyen, a former senator of South Vietnam and refugee. He discusses his brother General Nguyen Khoa Nam, who along with General Le Van Hung, shot and killed themselves rather than surrendering or fleeing…
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…
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…
Tran, Dinh Tru
Tru Dinh Tran was a Navy commander for the Republic of Vietnam. He recalls his experiences as an officer, taking refuge in Guam after the Fall of Saigon, and deciding to return to his family in Vietnam where he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp…