c-span: rory kennedy can you remember when your you were first to where there was a vietnam war? >> guest: well i was seven when the events took place that we document in the sound the last days of the war which was 1975. you know there's not a moment where i remember vietnam but i feel like it was kind of in the ethos of my childhood. it was in my consciousness. i have always felt it's a event in our nations history and i was happy to have the opportunity to revisit yet mom and to this particular story of the final days of the war. c-span: did you go there at all? >> guest: i never went to vietnam. my tent -- intention was to go there but you know the story that i wanted to tell from the vietnamese perspective is about the vietnamese who were left behind and what happened to them. but we were told that and i did extensive research that nobody in vietnam would talk to us about this time in history particularly who had been imprisoned or tortured where you know they kind of struggled in the aftermath of the war. there is still fear in concerns of government retaliation and repercu

i sat down with filmmaker rory kennedy recently about her film which shows harrowing evacuations, theity under assault, and efforts to save americans and south vietnamese. we began with an excerpt about those final hours. >> that morning c.i.a. choppers began picking up evacuators off the roofs of buildings and bringing them to the embassy. he was an old pilot he was blind in one eye and lame in one leg, and i said harnage we've got people. you got to go pick them up. it was the deputy c.i.a. station chief's apartment building. there were a number of very high-risk vietnamese, including the defense minister of south vietnam, all waiting to be rescued. as they climbed up the ladder to the roof, the photographer took that famous photograph, many people thought that was the u.s. embassy. it wasn't. but it indicated to what extent chaos had descended on this entire operation. >> inside the embassy, everywhere we looked was teeming with vietnamese. we counted. the total number was about 2,800. there was no hiding it that somehow people had to have let these people into the embassy. was it,

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