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Journalists recall AP Vietnam coverage and fall of Saigon
Veterans of the AP Saigon bureau recount the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured the city. They detail the helicopter evacuation, the end of a 20 year war, and the bureau's shutdown and later revival in 1993.
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Bangkok
U.S
Saigon
Associated Press Office
Peter Arnett
George Esper
Matt Franjola
Sarah Errington
Arnett
New York
Vietnam
Fransola
Esper
Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
French Indochina
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Malcolm Browne
Horst Faas
Browne
Faas
Washington
Ngo Dinh Diem
U.S. State Department
Pentagon
White House
California
Wes Gallagher
Gallagher
Paris
Richard Nixon
Frankola
Associated Press