Vietnam War correspondents reunite to honour the fall of Saigon

Journalism , Vietnam , War May 04, 2015 No Comments

Correspondents who covered the fall of Saigon gathered on a rooftop bar in Ho Chi Minh City last Wednesday to honour the fortieth anniversary of the end of a war that made many of their names.

Numbers were down to about thirty from the eighty who attended the first reunion in the city in 1995. Many former colleagues have died and gone, in the words of former Newsweek reporter and Melburnian Tony Clifton, to “the big FCC [Foreign Correspondents’ Club] in the sky”.

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Read the full article in The Australian.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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