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Donald Kirk

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War Story

Vietnam TV, press room, Hanoi summit
Wartime American journalists return to Hanoi

 

Suckhoedoisong.vn - Mr. Donald Kirk was a reporter on the Vietnam War in the period before 1975. Now he comes back to Vietnam to report on the US-Korea Summit, in which he is again moving. offering feelings about a country for peace and towards peace, common prosperity of the world.

"How the Tet Offensive Broke America"

Reflections in The New York Times on Tet 1968 and its aftermath

Tet, 50 Years Later
Memories of the Tet 1968 offensive
Sorting out the Green Beret Case

Moderating panel at Texas Tech Vietnam Center conference on the famous case of Colonel Rheault, charged with "terminating with extreme prejudice" the life of a Vietnamese

U.S Downplays War Games in South Korea
Was Iraq War Worth It?
Looking back a decade later
"Let Them Fight It Out" — Growing GI Disillusion Casts Doubt on Morale Claims (29.9 KB)

Report for the Washington Evening Star, November 9, 1969

United States Army in Vietnam : "Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973"
Definitive study by William M. Hammond of Vietnam War reporting, including numerous references to Donald Kirk articles
Miss Saigon: Looking Back

A mini-review of the musical

"Miss Saigon" Lea Salonga interviewed
Home in Manila after playing the role on the West End and Broadway
Where rescue helicopter landed atop a building in downtown Saigon, as immortalized in Hugh Van Ness's iconic photo showing people clambering up the ladder to make their great escape on "the last day," April 30, 1975
Looking up Le Loi toward Opera House, new Eden Bldg on left, Caravelle far right, sign advertizing subway construction in center
Abba and the Beatles top May Day program 40 years after "the fall"

©DON KIRK PHOTOS

The way it was: covering our longest war
Looking back on the old days in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
In Vietnam, War History Through a Fractured Lens
How the victors have altered the past
Saigon Revisited
A Brutal Past and a Fresh Start
40 Years after the Fall
Views from the tunnels to the port
Who Wants to be the Last American Killed in Vietnam?

As in The New York Times Magazine

Vietnam and Cambodia war photogs David Terry, left, and Al Rockoff with Vietnam journos in coffee shop, formerly Brodard's, now an Aussie Gloria Jean's franchise, on Dong Khoi Street, formerly Tu Do, Saigon. Don Kirk snapped the shot after war hacks' reunion, May 2010

Donald Kirk and photographer David Terry spent the summer of 1971 visiting bases in Vietnam, interviewing and photographing GIs for this piece on attitudes of U.S. troops, the cover article of The New York Times Magazine, September 19, 1971.

This article appears in Library of America's Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969-1975: Volume One (hardcover) and in the single-volume paperback.
Who Wants to be the Last American Killed in Vietnam?
As in Library of America anthology of Vietnam reporting
A different, expanded, version appears in Don's Tell it to the Dead: Stories of a War
Terry shot this cover along with all the other photos here. He snapped two pictures of the large peace sign, the lead photograph in the article below, carved in the earth outside the 101st Airborne Division headquarters at Camp Eagle near the ancient imperial capital of Hue, selling one negative to the AP for $15, standard AP payment, and retaining the other. The "peace sign picture," shot from a chopper returning from the Ashau Valley, also ran in Stars & Stripes, major dailies, then Life, Mad and in the 1990 film "Jacob's Ladder." Terry takes full credit for this classic image, so far credited only to AP.
Troops await medevac from Khesanh, early 1971. That's the 101st Airborne Division's Screaming Eagle patch on shoulder of the trooper at right. DAVID TERRY PHOTO
Jim Okuley, younger brother of the late Bert Okuley, one-time UPI Saigon bureau chief, outside the Majestic Hotel. Don Kirk snapped the shot, and Jim snapped shot of Don, below.
Don outside Majestic, where he lived and worked, writing stories and book, for much of the Vietnam War
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