you were 10 when your family fled saigon. member anything what happened in saigon was how was your life that when i left i was old enough to remember and then all that not all the enough to. everything so when you sit down to write you can you have the freedom to reinvent you know the stories between the little dots that you have of the memories but this saw visit images and as children i think you have a very tunnel vision of things right and so i remember the smell of the kitchen the room and how they would dress have they moved around and then i also have images of those tanks coming into town we only feel the fear of everybody and the worries and and on the day that we thread of course my parents couldn't tell us that we were fleeing right but the tension was so dance that you can you know you know without anybody say anything and to have certainly all of the at the hopes in the house to be warmer you know to whisper they never talk anymore. came to his childhood in saigon ended in 1975 when south viet nam fell to the com

merritt morning, major and two white officers called saigon. they were not conducting an official investigation, but they did collect witness testimony. one captain complained, during my assignment to team five, major merritt has continually cajoled and harassed officers about racial problems in the states and the fact that he is a negro league officer. -- he is a negro officer. men to learn of their prejudices and get them to admit they are prejudiced against negroes. major merritt, in the meantime, knows nothing about this investigation, and the senior officer that came from saigon told everybody there to keep mum. the officer also decided he would replace major merritt as senior advisor, and he did not keep that decision to himself. so when merritt returned, major irving let slip the news of the pending replacement. wasther words, merritt informed by a subordinate that he was losing his position of command. within days, merritt gets an official notice from saigon that he's being transferred. the notification said now we have sufficient offic

and the senior officer that came up from saigon told everybody there to keep mum. the officer, while he was there, also decided he was going to replace major merritt as senior adviser and he didn't keep that decision to himself. so when merritt returned, major irving let slip the news, not about the investigation but of the pending replacement. so in other words, merritt was informed by a subordinate that he was losing his position of command. within days, merritt gets an official notice from saigon that he's being transferred. notification said we have officers of appropriate rank and assured merritt the saigon office was going to benefit from his considerable experience. merritt reported to saigon as on ordered and the first day he got there he was summoned to the office of the investigator general and told he was being investigated. feeling bitter and betrayed he sat down at a typewriter and started to compose an eight-page statement that was going to demand the attention of the command and the american public as well. the investigation found that major merritt

guy for saigon, vietnam, at the time. this is what i would call a cushy assignment, i'm directing, and that's my butt you can see in the photo. the next photo is the opposite, where, this was not so cushy. this is the first movie we made for lieutenant general kinard, father of helicopter warfare. i went to d.c. , the pentagon and met him. i went back and did a complete series on the division. we were not allowed to shoot. officers were not allowed. these guys were the pros. why should we be screwing that up? so the next photo shows me out making that film, and i was shooting, we were on an air assault, and i couldn't resist taking this shot, so i did. and there are some other shots that go along with that that we're still trying to find. in that particular film, i had three motion picture cameras shooting at one time. three different choppers. it was a big production, and that was because lieutenant general kinard said, you want helicopters in the air? whatever you want, you got. i think at one time we had 15 helicopters

within days, merritt gets an official notice from saigon that he's being transferred and now we have sufficient officers of appropriate rank and it assured merit that the saigon office was going to benefit from his considerable experience. merritt reported to saigon and the first day he got there he was summons to the office of the investigator general, read his rights and told that he was being investigated. the next day, merritt receives a poor efficiency report and, feeling bitter and betrayed, he sedan a typewriter and started to compose a statement, an eight-page statement that was going to guarantee not only the attention of the of the command, but a lot of the american public as well. the investigator general investigation found that major merit was obsessed with race. it ignored the failures of leadership on the part of those people who found themselves uncomfortable talking about race and contributed to the problem, major irving. it equated his discussions of racial discrimination with militancy and potential violence. it failed to follow up on alleged threats against major

issue her a weapon, however, it was just after the tet offensive, and she was living in a hotel in saigon. that's, you know, where they used as some barracks, i guess, were in civilian facilities, and the woman she was replacing in the room kind of gave her a little tour, and then she opened up the bureau drawer and there was an ak-47 and ammunition just in case she needed it. so when she finished her year of tour of duty, and went to the mps and said, how do you turn in a weapon that you were never issued. so one of the beloved female general officers, general pat foot, and she says when she went to vietnam, they issued her a hang bag so she could swing it and protect herself, so this is how the women, this is how they dressed. they, you know, there were very few. i guess there were some occasions where they ended up in fatigues, so to speak, and so the nurses certainly did, but the women the line women were primarily in their dress uniforms on a daily basis because they were there kind of as clerks and things of that sort, but nevertheless, they were there. an important thing to point o

and barry zorthian who was the pr guy for saigon and vietnam at the time. this is what i call a cushy assignment. that's my butt you can see in that know toe. the next photo is the opposite where it was not so cushy the father of helicopter warfare, flew me to d.c., he went to the pentagon. i met him. he told me what he wanted so i went back and did a complete series on the first tier cav division. so the next photo shows me out making that film, the first air cav story. we were shooting -- i was on an air assault. i had -- i couldn't resist taking a shot, so i did, and there's some other shots that go along with that that we're still trying to find. so in that particular film, i had three motion picture cameras shooting at one time. three different choppers. it was a big production. that was because lieutenant general kanard, you want helicopter in the air? whatever you want, you got. i want this filmed, though. at one time we had 15 helicopters up there going to war doing their thing. we shot every conceivable subject in vietnam and the networks bought ou

. >> the evacuation of saigon, 1975. it is really depressing to watc it. thank you. >> thank you. >> to wrap up tonight, we will speak to heather mcdonald the author of the book war on cops, she joins us tonight. there are so many questions, but once again as i watch these videos coming into us live from around the country, it minneapolis, atlanta, washington , new york, the question that never leaves my mind, is why is nobody protecting the weak, protecting our society itself. where our leaders? how can they tolerate this? >> they have bought into the narrative that america is fundamentally racist. that is how their power is solidified. they don't understand, tucker, that civilization is fragile. this poison is spreading fast. we have to condemn this awful police action, the next breath has to be we are condemning the violence in our cities as well. they are both unacceptable. we cannot justify this violence in the name of racial justice o rage.

it's only 33 miles from saigon. as now faced with these three options, this is the decision i have made. in co-operation with the armed forces of south vietnam, attacks are being launched this week to clean out major enemy sanctuaries on the cambodian-vietnam border. a major responsibility for the ground operations is being long assumed by south vietnamese forces. for example, the attacks in several areas, including the parrot's beak that i referred to a moment ago, are exclusively south vietnamese ground operations, under south on vietnamese command, with the united states providing air and eye logistical support. there is one area however, immediately above the parrot's beak where i have concluded that a combined american and south vietnamese operation is necessary. tonight, american and south vietnamese units will attack the headquarters for the entire communist military operation in south vietnam. you mary this key control center has been occupied by the north vietnamese and vietcong for five years in blatant vi

on a hot afternoon in march of 1968, 35 miles northwest of saigon, i photographed m 60 tanks, infantryear entrenched units from one of the vc base camps. and i couldn't believe how loud it was. the roar of the tank engines, the boom of their big guns, the rat-tat-tat of the machine guns, it was disorienting as i was darting from tree to tree. i was so focussed on photographs i didn't think about the danger until the guy to my left got hit. that afternoon there was one kia and four wounded. well, buddies were there for the wounded and that made all the difference. that day, as it does every day in combat. but i recently learned there could have been two kia that day. not long ago a vet, who was also there that day, a guy name robert sidarko contacted me after seeing a picture from this fire fight i posted on erik's vietnam war history facebook page and he told a chilling story. at one point during the fighting all of the units had been ordered to pull back to bring in an air strike. since i was on foot and operating as we did, alone, basically, i had no idea that an air strike was heade

the war in the coronavirus is exacting a heavy toll on people across saigon. i . life sure turnings the streets of cape town more than this permissive that countrywide lockdown began in late march restrictions have been minimally east since then exercise a doors is now a light again only between 6 and 9 in the morning the sale of cigarettes and alcohol was still bad people we go back to work tension and i'm here are rising. this is a self-help group for women who face gender based violence under lock their immediate kind of life futures backyard. she was the victim of a gang rape when she was young. she now helps other women abused by men in particular by their male partners who feel the misty 19 teens who consume this new member may not last for they could be nothing i mean the homes they are going to take to everyone on this and you think you can leave thailand means he's able to move in on 2 means that the violence has moved back into her own. rates of gender based violence against women in south africa are among the highest in the world on average more than 10

$100.00 people have been killed there and in neighboring bangladesh modi survey the damage done by saigon from the air roads have been washed away electricity to millions of homes caught raw concerns corona virus could spread among people in emergency shelters in indonesia some people preparing for the eve holiday are ignoring restrictions and curbing the spread of the virus market trade of disobeying police orders and risking their business licenses to stay open just to washington reports in the capital jakarta. tama bang in the center of jakarta is southeast asia's biggest textile market the lead up to the muslim holiday of eden is usually the busiest time for traders as customers come to buy new clothes before the celebration this year is different place have come to shop the market down to enforce virus restrictions than ever they keep opening day shops and so the buyers keep coming it's not right we will continue to enforce the social restrictions and we will take actions it's really tiring it's now a daily ritual there are thousands of traders here and forcing all of them to follow

watched as north yemenis tanks rolled into saigon and as american helicopters evacuated americans from the united states embassy in south vietnam. if you have seen those images, again, they are really wrenching because they have people getting on to the helicopters and other people desperately trying to get on also. they were not able to get on. they were left instead. people who aided the americans there. the final cost of the war in vietnam can be measured and lots of ways as everywhere that we've talked about. it can be measured in money, it can be measured in the end of the great society. whatever lyndon johnson had hoped for and his social programs. were swallowed up by the war in vietnam as he himself recognized what happened and predicted that. he knew it. 58,000 americans died in vietnam. three to 4 million vietnamese died in that war. 300,000 americans are wounded, countless vietnamese are also wounded in that war. it has 100 billion dollar price tag which does not sound like much today. but it was a whole lot back then. it was a laugh to bankrupt all the social services, basi

the experience ultimately inspired one of saigon his most seminal projects exodus. a searing account of exiles migrants and refugees. the photographer journeyed the world to document in the desperate forced mass movement of people around the globe. women in afghanistan. migration to cities in india. and this man from former yugoslavia. as an exile from his own country so i gotto why dunder files with their plight. what does your biography mean for your photography. is it important that you come from brazil is it to have experience as a refugee live in far way from home i was an activist to politics lefties to young bad octavius to i made the many graves they stopped. the student in economy social science and that when they came out the closer. they that the become a photographer obese was inside the being obese is my head it tapes and i mean could my photography we feast is not that them of activists that they must social football for that they have. a fault to recall just nothing this is because i love photography because i photographed it what that goal did that w

and he condemned that the attacks on the protesters seem more appropriate to saigon in south korea in war time than in washington, d.c. president nixon was unperturbed. a few days later he told his aide, charles colton -- this is a nixon quote that can be read. it's clean. he says, one day we'll get them. we'll get them on the ground, where we want them. and we will stick our heels in, step on them hard, and twist. right, chuck? right? that's our president. somewhere between 1967 and 1971, the war that we were fitting had ceased to be a war between the united states and vietnam and had become a vicious battle among americans. president nixon finally achieved a negotiated settlement in vietnam in january of 1973. you see how long this is dragging out. this is in his second term he finally' chiefed the negotiating settlement. the bombing ended, as did the draft. ever since then we have had an all volunteer draft, since 1972. in november 1973 congress passed something called the war powers act, which spelled out the procedures to be followed when the introduction of american forces could

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being in vietnam was that general west wanted some clerical support to support the senior staff in saigon. that is from 1965, that broke the logjam. women wanted to serve. they were aa expecting to go to these areas just as they had in previous. wars so, they were the first one to get on the ground in vietnam it was interesting when you hear the stories of the women that served, there i love talking with them. because what they tell me is they so, are you going to train us on a weapon? no you don't need a weapon. think about that, sending a person to a war zone and you don't prepare to even protect yourself. one woman said when she got orders to go to vietnam she asked if she could go to the firing range to qualify. she got a little bit of training from her brother in law. she went to the firing range. she qualified. she gets to vietnam. it was just after the defensive, and she was living in a hotel inside gone. they used it as barracks for civilian facilities. the woman she was replacing in the room kind of gave her a little tour and she opened up the bureau and she saw an ak-47 ammuniti

in saigon and indonesia.e, which i think is perhaps not quite does make it is quite forgotten about. we are going to have to leave it there, so thank you very much. while many people think of conscription in terms of armed forces being sent abroad, many were conscripted to help the war effort on home soil. men enlisted to work in the mines — or bevin boys as they became known — faced jail if they didn't accept the call up, but despite risking their lives, they were considered civilians and are sometimes considered "the forgotten conscripts". i'm joined now by a former bevin boy — les raymond. also on the line is barbara mcelroy, archivist for the bevin boys association who is also les' daughter. thank you both very much indeed for joining us here at bbc news. if i can joining us here at bbc news. if i ca n start joining us here at bbc news. if i can start with you, layers, tell us more about becoming a bevin boy. when did you become one and what was your feeling about it? my feelings we re your feeling about

its course lying posing a challenge to the authorities here to evacuate coastal areas even if the saigon hits off their wakeling it could cause significant damage to the farmlands and ruined homes. i'll just dhaka bangladesh there are 10000 residents in the u.s. state of michigan have been forced to leave their homes because of heavy flooding the governor issued an emergency declaration after days of heavy rains caused a damned collapse there's concern the flooding will cause a 2nd dam to fail in a nearby county the national weather service says it's a life threatening situation and has been calling on people to get to higher ground as fast as they can the u.s. mexico and canada are extending a ban on nonessential travel across their borders by another 30 days to help contain the coronavirus the land border restrictions imposed in march were due to expire on whedon's state not be extended until june 22nd the rules do not apply to trade across the canada u.s. border in the u.s. many cities are entering the 3rd month of being a lockdown with most businesses closed it's had all sectors but

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these scenes are from a play called saigon. a woman is suffering from a terminal illness so her father buys a robot to keep her company. an updated version of the play takes place after the fukushima nuclear disaster. the play explores the topics of life and death and the characteristics that separate humans from robots. justice or guns and how the crucial difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence is a human beings are so to speak the personification of a struggle for existence. or leaves machine they have been optimized over millions of years to survive or to maintain their existence fest you may consider the motion has a kind of you find it rife in them and in water but actually it is not true the machine may have a longer drive with than the humans fear it's also. you know the design of this are yours you put my c want to start by we in this war you know the in my scene you do have a dark and there were feeling to protect itself you know. he she grows robots have not yet been able to develop intellige

what het, right there, particularly talked about, a part of cambodia that he said is closer to saigon than baltimore is to washington. a very strange talk, actually. there is a second demonstration about two hours later. both of them look fairly tame, so the president robert white decides to honor a previous commitment and go to mason city, iowa. that night, things fall apart. here's what it looked like in the streets at kent about 11:30 at night. let's set the stage. the first warm day of spring. campus day. you told me that earlier, campus day. for those of you who were there, remember, they sold beers in kent. 3-2 beers,lot of and it was a bar owner's dream because you had to drink twice as much beer as if it was 6.4% beer and you felt bloated and nasty. . there were a lot of factors involved. a little before midnight, some kids come out and light a fire cars, street, stopping talking about vietnam. they eventually race down, throw some rocks and other things through windows. timeayor about this declared bars have to be closed. so now you have all these kids coming out of bars. the

challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to d