mts johnny thomas heard daniel radio call and raced to the embassy, dying in a hail of bullets when theyasifed. four colleagues were already dead when a 26-year-old frank griffith is awakened after 3:00 a.m. >> someone came into the hotel and said alert, alert. i got to the second floor. the commander told me i want you to go to the embassy. find out what is going on down there. we're armed with m 16s and 45s. we started to approach the embassy i'm still not sure what is going on. >> and 90 mps and a group of marines surrounded outside and began battling inside. >> from behind the concrete pole and light pole base. i'm looking at the main gate and waiting for them to come out. i lay there i see a black citron coming down the boulevard. i didn't know if he was a civilian. i instrulted him to halt in vietnamese. i could see he was not going to halt. i sent a burst of fire across his windshield. he didn't stop. at which point i took him under. >> no one knew the fate of the 11 people inside of the embassy. the marines had to fight their way in. >> they ended up ramming the front gate with a

mts johnny thomas heard daniel radio call and raced to the embassy, dying in a hail of bullets when theyasifed. four colleagues were already dead when a 26-year-old frank griffith is awakened after 3:00 a.m. >> someone came into the hotel and said alert, alert. i got to the second floor. the commander told me i want you to go to the embassy. find out what is going on down there. we're armed with m 16s and 45s. we started to approach the embassy i'm still not sure what is going on. >> and 90 mps and a group of marines surrounded outside and began battling inside. >> from behind the concrete pole and light pole base. i'm looking at the main gate and waiting for them to come out. i lay there i see a black citron coming down the boulevard. i didn't know if he was a civilian. i instrulted him to halt in vietnamese. i could see he was not going to halt. i sent a burst of fire across his windshield. he didn't stop. at which point i took him under. >> no one knew the fate of the 11 people inside of the embassy. the marines had to fight their way in. >> they ended up ramming the front gate with a