Looking Back on the Fall of Saigon

NPR | By Loren Jenkins

Published April 30, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

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.

Loren Jenkins

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

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