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should be about raising prices and harley down to the government. we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world. we live in time in that says, i don't have the baby has the task of fixing a war torn economy. counting the cost on al jazeera ah, caravel, saigon was built during the time that the very turbulent era the caravel was the great vantage point. from the roof of the caravel hotel, we could see very clearly the evacuation. this was sort of the front row seat if you will, on the top of the caravel to the final stages of the war. qualified in my mind as the perfect war. oh, tell me i

awe in the whole team in the city and vietnam once so i got the old capital of south vietnam at its heart. his lamb sewing square were journalist diplomats, military staff and spies, rubbed shoulders in its famous hotels during the vietnam war. ah, the area around love san 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 visit 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 caravel was built 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 gardener, once a general manager of the caravel, remembers those war reporters from his childhood. the famous journalist said that i recall were david held mister him,

peter arnett niel. she in molly cypher. tim page. they were names that i grew up with as a teenager watching the vietnam ward on tv every night. fellow new zealander peter arnett, is credited as being the only western journalist to cover the 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 the french colonial city. when i arrived in saigon, i checked in at the caravel hotel that was a residence where a peas start,

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 us 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 bang military advisors in the countryside. clearly things were moving along for me as a journalist to indicate that there was a real story. at that time,

inside 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 u. s. 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, cood, 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 us 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 cat 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 many dozens of rooms. they rented permanently, ah, for locals, these press hotels was something of a spectacle. as a boy, one van comb, 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 a man that the one going she's going to be on a jumped or you like on your name, give your name to it. the matter that they shouldn't show me going to need 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 got her and shouting a needle. i'm out to me. thought who lives, who and got it 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 stay. yeah, not a good day in mind. yet in the old acting latin, you know, call kind all though down law law pay, laughing, acting, one. no one got new guy nor been told rocks. all that though, 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 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 those days. there were many blackouts of electricity's. it was also the only building in the city that had a 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. the 1st of all, it was a well run, modern residency. excellent stop. it had a very supportive management that catered to the needs of journalists,

keeping the bar open most of the night. for example, making sure 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 the i was with a real wonderful veteran correspondence, bbc, anthony lawrence, and the counter man who subsequently taught me everything. i know modest man bill bagley and 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 the country with a war. 900. 68 was the bloodiest year of the war. and

the extensive coverage of the infamous tet offensive rock to the us and started turning american public opinion against the war. again, the war came to the cow 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 ruth 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

milan kingdom show me that molten florida. ne, lowering it down. warm. none it always got we got mountain man, we were told to me wanting to catch and all the t la phung your la 10. you eat my them from be again doing new or way feed by new a new men me both sides suffered heavy losses. but the offensive heralded shifts and the war. richard nixon became us president in 969 and began withdrawing troops. i'm started secret negotiations with hanover. 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 1978, 22. not knowing very much about vietnam, nor about the war. i was a backpack or 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 u. s. on the 17th of april become bodie and capital town pen fell to the communist commerce 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 commander 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 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 sturdy or 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 settings. mm. on the 29th of april, the communists closed in and 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. in the early as of april 30, i was awakened and my room with the thundering air strikes and attacks. i quickly got dressed and went to the roof. i could see

a bit amazed 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 late 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 the last american had lifted off from the u. s. embassy, rooftop, hundreds of north vietnamese tanks, packed with soldiers, advanced into the gold plan. van comb was assigned to company advance

named jack boeing won't bout, not bow at all k to take on. i knew this bang, my pain. i met the wrong kind of those soon. love, heart a, get a kiss hallowed off to so you take a 113, and why? though mall no shot, though. mar jacket though. mark the guy, bocce man. hiking and going. i know the mac alto now t shirts into bowie. hello, auto stop thought. all this, and you get on panel dante hall, yo yo kato, oh, from in, from my g, my g la, your satellite home mode, i walked up to the american embassy and it was being ransacked by the amazed many of them angry because they hadn't been able to leave and the in the helicopter l. o . many of them taking the opportunity to grab anything they could have value

roughly an hour or so after the chaos at the u. s. embassy, and after we photograph that, we decided to split up deal. 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, try it again and crashed through the gate of the palace. and kneel. got that classic shot with the flag of the national liberation front,

waving from the top. the tag bowed up to view the monk. come those again. you can go the monk um to josh and the guy i need more a lot more in a lot. towed up knowing it more come go high. totally, quite feeble, mockingly. oh, fun 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 subway construction area, had a pass 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 river

me returning to the count of cameras on eric, tighter and corresponded brian baron films 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, fact 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, why do we just get out on the, to take some great leads track, we had to do a tracking shot. wonderful. and we got some great images of the welcoming crowds on 2 row street. 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 preparing in advance. the caravan would be regarded favorably by the new communist occupiers, ah, in april 30th, 1975, marked 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 caravel hotel, one van combe delta memorial,

to the journalists killed in the 2 endo china wars. for some long look now, the dog, whom they don't know who read didn't be laughed all my boys looked now sheeny good. i have been down in the 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 memory 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. oh tell and does to this day when i think about it,

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