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my mind as the perfect war. oh, tell me i i awe in the whole team in the city and vietnam once so i got the old capital of south vietnam. at its heart is lamb sewing, square, ware, journalist, diplomat, military staff, and spies, rub shoulders in its famous hotels during the vietnam war. the

area around la solve square. you've got the caravel on one side, the continental on the other, the old passage, a den where the a p office was in my office, the nbc office, and the vis news office. all of these agencies were there and then down the other end of the square, the wreck. so tell, this was the nucleus of the life that we led as war correspondence at that time, is the saigon that we knew a very small but very pivotal area of saigon, where we sort of made our home for a number of years. 2 the caravan was billed shortly after the 1st in the china war in 1954. at 10 stories. it was the tallest building in the city. and it became a significant base for reporters who arrived in saigon and the early 1900 sixty's to cover the vietnam war. john gardner, once a general manager of the caravel,

remembers those war reporters from his childhood. the famous journalist for that i recall were david hel, bostrom peter arnett, niel. she in molly cypher. tim page. they were names that i grew up with as a teenager watching the vietnam ward in on tv every night. fellow new zealander peter arnett, is credited as being the only western journalist to covered a 20 year war from start to finish. i was assigned to vietnam by the associated press as a correspondent with their saigon bureau and i arrived there in saigon and june of 962 at that time, saigon still had the atmosphere of a french colonial city. when i arrived in saigon,

i checked and at the caravel hotel, that was a residence where a p star, those who were in and out of the country, always stayed the war, then was between north and south vietnam. but as it intensified, american presence in saigon grew. the 1st 400 u. s. military advisors checked into the rex hotel. but some stayed at the caravel enough to interest the journalists there. what was interesting to me as a journalist, that in the hotel the caravel were staying there were crow cut, young americans in the bar, and walking around in the restaurant of it. it turned out that they were american soldiers on leave, from the, from being military advisors in the country side. clearly things were moving along

to me as a journalist to indicate that there was a real story. at that time and side on our nets, journalistic intuition was spot on in 1963 south vietnam was in disarray. the unpopular and autocratic president was deposed in a qu, backed by the us, and the caravel was at the center of the war reporting action. the caravel hotel proved its usefulness and burst under the headlines. november 1 of 963. that was when those a military coud a tar against the calvin to president node and c m, which led to the assassination of the president. and his brother. in the course of that action of our 24 hour period, the center of saigon was,

was zone. the press retreated in effect to the caravel hotel, and that was when many of the stories were basically of not date one the caravel. we certainly mention that a lot of the, what we were saying was from the caravel, the u. s. military officially joined the war in 1964 and hundreds of reporters, camera crews and photographers descended on saigon. hotels quickly filled up the passage in building the hotel continental, the majestic and of course, the count rebel. it became a desirable location for journalists, particularly the american networks, c, b, s and a b, c. not only did they have correspondence like dan, rather, molly,

safer and others out in the field covering the actual war. but they had an administrative staff that occupied the sweets on the corners of the building lodge sweets and also where it was meant dozens of rooms they rented permanently, ah, for locals, these press hotels was something of a spectacle. as a boy hung van cold lived in a small traditional house behind the caravel. from where he watched the news crews come and go, hung will become a war photographer, himself. cash i got, i ran our talk on the man that the one going she's going to be on a jumped or like on your name, give your name to it. the matter that they shouldn't show me going to see more go

bad and yeah, i will go back my mouth and those get all my nice show around the boat, the co and to cut her in shall know, need lamarche to me thought, who lives, who and got of and you, me, but soon the hotels themselves became targets. a huge explosion shook the caravel in 1900. 64 after a bomb was planted on the 5th floor, where many journalists state. it's all. yeah, not a good day in my yet in the old acting latin, you know, call kind all though down law law known pay last, boeing, acting one. no one got new guy nor been told rocks. all that he whom mom note like and what looked long,

the thing mom not only wow you go back now guys watch like linda song t king my we really didn't want cold. now in rooms were damaged. the windows of several cars in to door street were blown out, and some passes by were injured. most of the journalists were out in the assignment, so there were no casualties amongst them that day. the caravel was not a safe haven. in the sense that there was no protective environment around it though or no security people were no bunkers in front of that. it was just open. it was an open hotel just for civilian hotel. no place in saigon was say, the, the war escalated and by 1965, there were around 200000 american soldiers in the region. when the 1st marines

landed in south vietnam, they were accompanied by more news cruise. this 967 photograph of the a b c. news crew in the care of our rooftop restaurant has become an icon of vietnam's news coverage. caravel hotel was built with bulletproof glass. it also had a backup generator for in those days, there were many blackouts of electricity's. it was also the only building in the city that had air conditioning. and the communication was one of the few buildings in the, in the city that had a fax machine. so the journalists considered it a good communication center. first of all, it was a well run, modern residency. excellent stop. it had

a very supportive management that catered to the needs of the journalists, keeping the bar open most of the night. for example, making show of communications systems existed. so the caravel became no one as the price. so towel in 1967, half a 1000000 us troops were in vietnam, and side guns. hotels were again packed the western media presence, w that year, including bbc cameras on eric data. my 1st trip to vietnam was with a real wonderful veteran correspondence with ddc, anthony lawrence, and the counter man who subsequently taught me everything. i know modest man bill baghlan. we were sent off, seemed a long way away. we had now. i know i'd never been to asia. and there we were in

a country with a war. $968.00 was the bloodiest year of the war. and the extensive coverage of the infamous chet offensive rock to the us and started turning american public opinion against the war. again, the war came to the count of al, from the evening of january, 31 through several months. the saigon itself was subject to frequent battles. the american embassy was, was attacked the palace. again, the caravel was a, a refuge for journalists. so figured it was too dangerous to live in houses and would check into the care of l. and again, from the roof top, you could get

a sense of the mayhem and difficulties being faced by the by the american vietnamese military and by the civilian population. he now morgan in time show me that molten though, dot and the low down warm. none it always got. we got mountain man, we are doing whitening, catching all the t la fung. you didn't, you eat my them from being you doing new or way feed by new a new men. me. both sides suffered heavy losses. but the offensive heralded shifts in the war. richard nixon became us president in 1969 and began withdrawing troops and started secretly go she, asians with hon. but then in 1970,

he bombed neighboring cambodia. a new wave of correspondence had to shuttle between vietnam and come bonia to cover the spreading story. jim laurie was one of them. i arrived and shy gun in april of 1970 age 22. not knowing very much about vietnam, nor about the war. i was a back packer turned freelancer, and in those days, the places to stay where the caravel, the continental, maybe the majestic on the waterfront. but i didn't have the money for that. so i stayed at basically a $5.00 a night run down hotel. it was called the royal hotel. there was nothing royal about it at all. but i simply, you know, given the money that i had, that was the place that i 1st stayed in 1970 the last war years were intense on all sides. for those fighting it,

and those reporting it in 19731 year after americas most brutal bombing of north vietnam. the paris peace accords ended us direct involvement in vietnam. but the war was not over in 1975 events in cambodia shook the us on the 17th of april, the cambodian capital town pen fell to the communist. come out roofs and the americans had to walk straight, a sudden evacuation. it was clear, the united states was about to lose sophia now to so the war, reporters shuttled back to side guns hotels. when cambodia fell to the combat rouge i came over to vietnam. i arrived with a brilliant and very experienced australian camera man named niel davis. we arrived in saigon and we're trying to decide where to stay. we thought about the

continental, we thought about the majestic, we thought about other hotels. and we felt that maybe the caravel might afford a bit more security. it was a sturdier hotel. we felt than the older continental. so on the 26th of april, we checked in to the caravel hotel. i was in the car of was a handful of other journalists who had decided to stay behind to see what happened when the communists took over. the city me on the 29th of april, while the communist closed in on so i go. the americans ordered their 2nd regional evacuation in 2 weeks. most of the dramatic footage and photographs of the withdrawal were taken from the caravel hotel. for many of the reporters that were here in saigon from april 29,

april 30th of 975. this was sort of the front row seat, if you will, on the top of the caravel to the final stages of the war. me from the roof of the caravel hotel, we could see very clearly the evacuation at the american embassy. a bas, just 2 or 3 blocks away. so all of the network cameraman set up. so a lot of people were fighting to get into the embassy over the war, whatever. ah, nearly a 100 journalist chose to stay inside on the carnival was a frenzy of activity in the last hours before the city finally fell. nearly as of april 30, i was awakened in my room with thundering s strikes

and attacks. i quickly got dressed and went to the roof. i can see a bit amaze, transport plane take off from the airport and start climbing into the sky. it exploded in flames as breached just a few 1000 feet. and it was clearly indicated that just a matter of time before they communist forces, barinello vicinity deal davis and i on the morning of the 30th, had a very nice breakfast. and then we went to the embassy itself. we happened to get there around 7 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of april, 75, and we watched the last helicopter leave the roof of the embassy. as a last american culture lifted off from the u. s. embassy, rooftop, hundreds of north vietnamese tanks, packed with soldiers,

advanced into sa gone plum. van comb was assigned to company advance name jacqueline guy bout bower now to take on when i knew defending my pay not make those those kind of those soon love heart a get a case hallowed off to. so you take a one re and one though mall. now shop tomorrow jacket though mark the guy bocce man hike in my hand going i don't l toma t shirts into bowie and i auto stop. thought all the san diego and panel. dante, all yo yo kate though? oh, from me and from my g. g la, you satellite homo, i walked up to the american embassy than it was being ransacked by vietnam ages.

many of them angry because they hadn't been able to leave in the, in the helicopter. l o, many of them taking the opportunity to grab anything, they could have a value roughly an hour or so after the chaos at the u. s. embassy and after we photograph that, we decided to split up. neil i went with neil initially over to the the palace. he felt as i did that soon, the north vietnamese force would be arriving. so i made my way back to the n b c. news office. and then we heard on saigon radio. the unconditional surrender of general min, who was the provisional leader of south vietnam at the time. around noon, the north vietnamese change reached the presidential palace gates. the 1st north vietnamese tag came through failed at 1st to break down the gate and then

backed up tried again and crashed through the gate of the palace and deal got that classic shot with the flag of the national liberation front, waving from the top, the tank board up to you know man come those english. come go. come to josh at the bank more a lot more and they towed up long it more. come go high. totally feel too loud, mockingly. oh, phone laugh and new navy. now, me, i came back to the caravel hotel and i was very much in this location, came out to the balcony and spotted in this direction, north vietnamese tanks. this area which is now a sub construction area, had a passable road. the road took the north vietnamese tanks out to the square. they

made a right turn, which in those days was freedom st. heading down towards the side, god driven me returning to the count of cameras on eric tighter and corresponded to brian baron filmed the rousing victory scenes. this photograph taken from the count of el hotel, shows eric on top of an american car advancing ahead of a communist tank. we found a convoy of tanks fight, heading towards the street where the caravel hotel in the continental palace hotel . ah, so we followed it and then one of them overtook us. and then another one came behind us and i said to brian, well why don't we just get out on the to take some great roads trying. we can head to a tracking shot. wonderful. and we got some great images of the welcoming crowds on

to the street. on one of the interesting moments for me, i looked over the caravel and there was a large con minutes flag hanging from the middle windows of the hotel. that full store 4 rooms wide and 3 or 4 deep, that the star for the hotel clearly had prepared written in advance. the caravan would be regarded favorably by the new communist occupiers, ah, in april 30th, 1975, marked to the official end of the vietnam war. with heavy loss of life on both sides, nearly a 100 journalists were killed. all went missing during that war.

on his roof overlooking the cover of l hotel, while van combe delta memorial, to the journalists killed in the 2 endo china wars. for some long look now though i'm hungry, i don't know who read. i didn't feel at all. my voice looked now she is a good i have been given a carnival hotel, continue to prosper and thrive. in the postwar years to day, it remains a landmark in the city and the repository of the treasured memories of those journalists who made this war hotel, their headquarters, their sanctuary, and their home in we're speaking about half

a century ago. in terms of being a war hotel for correspondence delivered, it was what the ward, in a sense, really never ended for me. ah. the 1st impressions that you have when you are a young person, are the deepest impressions you have when you show up at a war zone in a place. cambodia, vietnam at age 22. that sticks with you for the rest of your life. ah, when the war action ever came to saigon life, be overthrown, node and z, and the military code the tet offensive. and now the fall of saigon, the caravel was the great vantage point. and i and because the hotel continued to operate and provide food and lodgings,

it qualified in my mind as the perfect war. and does to this day when i think about it, ah ah, ah, across the world, young activists and organizers around them are motivated and politically and gauge . we were the one who had life on what was going on. and the way that means to me to do this, generation change is al jazeera, is me series, looking at the pressure ideas for the transformation of global politics. the day we do the work of making sure that our voices are heard coming soon. phone al jazeera history is forgotten. peril yet in spain state imposed them

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