the evacuation of americans and south vietnamese allies saigon. the national world war i museum and memorial provided this january 2020 video. >> i would like to introduce retired marine colonel colonel holden. he was a second lieutenant during his college graduation and proceeded directly to pensacola where he was trained as a marine pilot. he was designated a naval aviator in december 1968 and received further training in the at the marineer base in california. he was deployed to vietnam in april 1969 and on his second southeast asia tour he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the american embassy on the morning of april 30, 1979 which this evening we will hear more about. he is a graduate of the army war college in carlisle, pennsylvania. he later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the naval war college teaching national military strategy. he moved to kansas city in 1993 and was assigned as the commanding officer and later ps in 1996.m the cor please join me in welcoming colonel thom

we headed down the saigon river. that day was a beautiful, sunny day. everybody was along the river banks, waving like this to us. we waved back at them. i got to thinking, this is a real. this cannot be happening. seemed to be so call. no one shouted us. they could have. when we landed, the embassy was surrounded by t 72 tanks. aaaas surrounded by anti-air force guns. they tracked us in and out. i told the gunner, don't think about shooting at them. we don't want to make them mad. i knew there was something strange going on about the rules of engagement. we flew back to the ship. we got to the uss okinowa. got there at 8:20, refueled. i made sure that i went to bed this time. i did not hang around. everybody, get out of here and hide someplace. we did. night, a thousand 54 hours were flown by the aircrews. 682 in and out. compound,tion of the they took out 395 americans, 4475 vietnamese. , 978 americans came out of the embassy. another 1120 vietnamese. there was a total of 1300 plus americans evacuated on that mission. 5595 vietnamese. statesup in the

. >> this neighborhood is called -- >> saigon airport. >> heavy casualties in hue, south vietnam. >>erhead. >> the tet offensive, simultaneous attacks on every city in town in south vietnam, shocked the american people. >> the enemy very deceitfully has taken advantage of the tet truce in order to create maximum consternation within south vietnam, particularly within the populated areas. >> every year there was a ceasefire, on the lunar new year's holiday known as tet. they believed that year would be the same thing, but that wasn't what happened. >> these are american combat military police and troops from the 101st airborne division. half a block to the u.s. embassy, vietcong snipers and suicide commandos were holed up inside the embassy compound and firing from surrounding buildings. now cia men and mps have gone into the embassy and are trying to get the snipers out. by themselves. >> military police got back into the compound of the $2.5 million embassy complex at dawn. the fighting went on for a total of six hours before the last known vietcong raider was killed. in a small res

. >> a member of nixon's campaign is telling saigon, stay away from the peace talks, and you'll get ais elected. >> as a presidential candidate and my vice presidential running mate joins me in this, neither he or i will say anything that might destroy the chance to have peace. we want peace above politics in america. >> i really think it's a little dirty pool for dick's people to be messing with the south vietnamese ambassador and carrying messages around to both of them. and i don't think the people would approve of it if it were known. and he better keep mrs. chinault and all this crowd tied up. >> he feel confident, that the condition that north vietnam had always asked for has been met and four-party peace talks are imminent. they will happen. well, in saigon, on november 1st, the president stands up on the dais and drops the bombshell, they cannot participate in the negotiations. >> i have nothing to tell with you. >> embarrassment is common among americans in vietnam, particularly those of us who have acquaintances among the vietnamese. we find ourselves apologizing, apologizin

1975 evacuation of americans and south vietnamese allies from saigon after it fell to north vietnamese. 7:00:00 p.m. eastern and pacific, we feature some films profiling industries that have been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. prof. little: this is our final presentation. it is titled shifting horizons. familiartle should be in one sense, because we have discussed the ways in which that engagement between american forces and residents of pine ridge indian reservation were engaged in events specific to the age that resonates far of thein the spirit oppression of certain peoples by federal troops. wounded knee occurred in 1890, and the trueblue saloon we will encounter today, it is the name whicharticular bar at american soldiers were assaulted hile, at antry of c major port along the coast. i want us to consider the ways in which the u.s. army and navy were envisioning their future. considering the past presentations the ways in which the armed forces, especially certain elements of the officer corps, were anticipating great power conflict. infusedegree of anxiety thei

. >> this is a rubber plantation north of saigon in vietnam. thirty-five years ago members of the army's 20th infantry regiment known as the black lines were ambushed here in the battle, 61 were killed, many were injured. this is the university of wisconsin and madison 35 years ago antiwar students tried to keep dow chemical from recruiting on campus. they held a demonstration, the demonstration turned violent. these two stories from different parts of the world come together at a new book titled they marched into sunlight, the authors david maraniss. hello david maraniss. your epilogue you write that connections fascinate you more than ideology. what is that mean? and how was it reflected in this book? >> i guess it means i am a journalist and historian. i am not trying to make a specific theological point when i do my reporting. i believe over the course of years our history is looked at different ways. i want to present 1967 and that point in time as actively and deeply as i could and stripped away some of the stereotypes of the 60s that sor

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. >> this is a rubber plantation north of saigon in vietnam. thirty-five years ago members of the army's 20th infantry regiment known as the black lines were ambushed here in the battle, 61 were killed, many were injured. this is the university of wisconsin and madison 35 years ago antiwar students tried to keep

the evacuation of americans and south vietnamese allies saigon. the national world war i museum and memorial provided this january 2020 video. >> i would like to introduce retired marine colonel colonel holden. he was a second lieutenant during his college graduation and proceeded directly to pensacola where he was trained as a marine pilot. he was designated a naval aviator in december 1968 and received further training in the at the marineer base in california. he was deployed to vietnam in april 1969 and on his second southeast asia

participation in operation frequent wind, the 1975 evacuation of americans and south vietnamese allies from saigon after it fell to north vietnamese. 7:00:00 p.m. eastern and pacific, we feature some films profiling industries that have been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. prof. little: this is our final presentation. it is titled shifting horizons. familiartle should be in one sense, because we have discussed the ways in which that engagement between american forces and residents of pine ridge indian reservation were engaged in events specific to the age that resonates far beyond

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 di

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