People try to scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters, as the last of the Americans depart from Vietnam. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the ...
50 years ago, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese troops leading to the end of the Vietnam War, and the reunification of Vietnam. Around 3 million Vietnamese lives and nearly 60,000 American lives were ...
WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — When the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces 50 years ago this week, it prompted a mass exodus of some 2 million people — hundreds of ...
Local Vietnamese-American leaders at City Council recognition (screenshot via City of Falls Church) The Falls Church City Council marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon last week with a ...
The helicopters had to go to make room for more helicopters carrying Americans and South Vietnamese to land aboard the ships of naval Task Force 76, which had been assembled off the coast to aid in ...
Pilot John Morgan flew one of the helicopters evacuating people out of Saigon. When Iowa native John Morgan received orders to assist with the Vietnam War, it was a “tremendous surprise.” President ...
In 1984, volunteers stood outside supermarkets in Orange County, clipboards in hand, helping fellow Vietnamese Americans register to vote. Van Tran, then a freshman at UC Irvine, was one of them. The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over his long and illustrious career as a CBS news correspondent and anchor, Bob Schieffer won awards and earned acclaim as one of ...
Editor's note: This story was clarified to make clear that Anita Emrich called senators and others to advocate for the evacuation of all children from An Lac orphanage, not just Adele Lamb. It was ...