International 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 19 years ago. Facebook WhatsApp Email Listen • 0:00 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