in march 1968, he was killed in southern vietnam. learned of his brother's death four years later while fighting in the mekong delta. >> translator: i was saddened, but i had my duty to fulfill. i come from a family of patriots, so i didn't have the luxury of grieving. >> in 2008, minh learned where sung was buried, information passed on by his brother's old friend from the war. three years later, minh's sister went to find the grave, joined by sung's friend. >> translator: we spent three days looking for my brother's grave. my brother's friend cried out sung's name in tears, asking for divine help. maybe that helped. we found sung's remains at a cemetery. it was like a dream come true. i was so happy i cried out, my brother, he's here, as a clutched his remains. ♪ ♪ >> april 2011, sung's remains return home. the village holds a grand funeral. but not everyone is here to receive the ashes. his parents have passed away. now, three years later, it's the 40th anniversary of the end of the war. minh is visiting the village cemetery, the

morning with a desperate search at sea after a jet carrying 239 people vanished off the southern coast of vietnamery quickly, overnight, very quickly, there's no debris. they can't find anything from the actor. and that's unusual. >> even more unusual, searchers also start looking in the opposite direction. hundreds of miles to the west. >> i sat in the studio, covering this, and we would look at each other, and he'd say, hang on, did he simply say, we're looking to the west? >> yes. that's because newly discovered military radar reveals the plane may have turned back to the west. at the same time, new leads are coming in. >> late today, chinese authorities released satellite photos of what they call a suspected crash site. >> an international fleet of aircraft and boats are now searching in two different areas. >> they had to look in the east, because that's where debris was allegedly being reported. they had to look in the west, because that's where their radar data had told them the plane had gone. >> but searchers still find nothing. days turn into weeks and the search area expands even farth

vietnam with writers. this is part of the college series and took place at the university of southern california in los angeles. it's 20 minutes. >>> joining on booktv c-span2 professor frank mcadams was written this book vietnam rough riders by commanders then why are. what is a rough rider in the vietnam era? it's from the first marine division and south of and why are in the notorious and treacherous path anybody that went on the convoys. it was sometime before they told me i was going to the transport battalion. highway one was the main highway in vietnam that stretched from the d-delta through the central highlands and then where i was also a north. and i believe it's still called highway one. my job was to convoy commander who is responsible for everything the convoy does and if there's an ambush they get through the ambush with minimum trouble as possible. >> it was made up from anywhere of six to seven trucks. the biggest one i was on muslim hundred 40 trucks. = all places in the service, south vietnamese. we tried to get them to break it up going over the three or four day period they turned us down a

vietnam rough riders". this interview as part of book tvs college series and took place at the university of southern california in los angeles. it is 20 minutes. >> are now joining us on bic to be on c-span2 is u.s. professor frank mcadams who has written vietnam rough riders, a, commanders memoir. what is a rough rider in the vietnam era question that. >> a rough rider in the vietnam era and the first marine division, and we ran the trucks up and down highway one, right out of the neighing and north through the notorious. anybody who want on those convoys one of the dangerous pass in vietnam, they just nicknamed up the rough riders. sometime before i got there in 66 or 67 when i got there they told me is going to be 11th motor transport those are the ref writers. >> what is highway one. >> that's the main highway in vietnam that stretched from the delta, through the central highlands, into three core and then into ichor which is where i was from the neighing. all the way north to the dmz. it was the main highway. it was just called highway one. i believe it so-called highway one. >> and what was your job. >>

vietnam is infested with vietcong. from the north they stream down the ho chi minh stral and like a disease spread throughout the southernublic. into this setting come the first of the screaming eagles, the aviation crews of company a forerunners to stop the communist enemy. for the republic, this is a time of desperation. here at the airfield, 40 miles southeast of saigon, the job begins for these airmen. along with helicopter crews from other aviation companies, the men of the 101st are to be processed for movement to their new homes in the forward areas of vietnam. their mission now is to create the helicopter bases from which u.s. army forces can be flown into combat against the vietcong. quickly now they make ready. in the next 90 days before the airborne infantry arrives, these men will do a man-sized job. on the 29th of july, 1965, the first brigade of the 101st airborne division arrives at cameron bay. the brigade with its supporting elements is commanded by colonel james timothy who is welcomed by vietnam by ambassador maxwell taylor. and by general william westmoreland. in the ceremonies which followed, colonel

, french indochina, also known as french vietnam, a civil war began between the communists in the northern part of the country and anti-communist in the southern part of the country. a truce was declared, an uneasy peace was established, and the french withdrew, leaving two countries behind them. communist north vietnam and anti-communist south vietnam. two new countries, like the old west germany and east germany. this, like the two germany's, became a focal point in the cold war, a competition between united states on one side and the soviet union on the other. the soviet union was helping the north vietnamese and we increasingly were helping the south vietnamese. that is how it was portrayed in the u.s. and the west, a cold war battle between the americans and the soviets and the regimes they were backing. we realized with more time what was really going on in vietnam was a civil war among competing peoples there. and this is the great difficulty that we encountered in vietnam, when he tried to intervene in a civil war that we did not recognize as such. so, david halberstam and a number of other young correspondents began to write about wha

he was the founding president of the southern poverty law center and the chairman of the naacp for 11 years. he also was a staunch opponent of the vietnam war. so he was very well known for that as well. the southern poverty law center confirmed his death this morning releasing a statement saying the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice. bond died last night in florida. he died of what the southern poverty law center is only describing as a brief illness. he was 75. we're live in midtown this morning, i'm kristin thorne, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> big loss. thank you. >>> more breaking news this morning. this time out of france where a police officer has been shot outside of a government security building. investigators say two people attacked that officer while he was simply doing rounds early this morning at the interior ministry complex grabbing his gun and then shooting him. the officer, though, is expected to survive. special security forces searched the building but could not find the suspects. >>> police are investigating a crash that killed three people on the taconic state