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Looking Back on the Fall of Saigon

By Loren Jenkins
Published April 29, 2005 at 9:00 PM PDT
This story was published more than 20 years ago.

Thirty years after flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy, on one of the last helicopters out, NPR's Loren Jenkins recalls the last day of the Vietnam War from downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.

Copyright 2005 NPR

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Loren Jenkins brings over 30 years of experience to his post as the senior editor of NPR's foreign desk.
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