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‘Napalm Girl’ may be work of different photographer, World Press Photo says ○
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Photo from Vietnam war is now at centre of controversy after documentary claimed it was taken by someone else
The World Press Photo group has suspended the attribution of authorship for one on the mos…
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‘Still an open wound’: damning docuseries revisits Vietnam war 50 years on ○
Netflix series Turning Point: The Vietnam War goes back to retrace a devastating history from multiple perspectives
This Wednesday, 30 April, marks a full half century since the fall of Saigon. The ta…
The US left Vietnam 50 years ago today. The media hasn’t learned its lesson | Norman Solomon ○
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The myth that news coverage turned Americans against the war persists. In fact, it was largely complicit in perpetuating the conflict
The last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy …
Vietnam celebrates 50 years since end of war with US ○
A military parade held in Ho Chi Minh City concludes celebration of 50th anniversary since the fall of Saigon.
Fall of Saigon: Children of Vietnam’s war refugees reconcile a painful past ○
Younger generation of Vietnamese make peace with history and identity on the 50th anniversary of war ending in Vietnam.
‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war ○
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Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent who is now 96, recalls the day she entered the city after South Vietnam’s surrender
The day that Saigon fell, Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent, could only hear shoutin…
With American credibility in doubt, minds go back to Saigon in 1975 ○
A look at the way The Economist covered the end of the Vietnam war
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Lifesavers who swooped down from Saigon's wartorn skies: 50 years ago, the Mail launched an audacious rescue mission to save 100 children from a Vietnamese orphanage. ROBERT HARDMAN tracked them down and heard their humbling and poignant stories ○
They were the most innocent, most vulnerable victims of a conflict every bit as savage as the Second World War - but lasted three times longer.
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