Article about American families in South Vietnam

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Article about American families in South Vietnam

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Original title: "dependent", Keever's title: "'Bring a Baseball' as US Saigon Families match up [?] another coup," Article for the New York Herald Tribune about the experience of American families during political instability and escalating violence in South Vietnam

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t/a press tribune newyork [deletion: 15] 16001 prowald dependent one [XXXX indicating deletion] suggested precede paren during [deletion: the] past six weeks american families in vietnam have experienced [deletion: the] gulfve tonkin crisis [deletion: comma] and american bombing novietnam comma countless student demonstrations comma [deletion: religious] buddhist catholic religious rioting [XXXX indicating deletion] and numerous grenadings stop this week they saw vietnamese paratroopers rangers and armored cars again buzz through the streets for vietnams socalled third coup detat stoppara [XXXX indicating deletion] during each crisis [deletion: comma] the first question asked by american [deletion: families] housewives was quote will we be evacuated query unquote stoppara despite [deletion: tensions and excitement] crises [illegible] atmosphere comma official [insertion: american embassy] figures indicate that the numberve dependents in vietnam has risen about ten percent stop [insertion: during] the first weekve august there were about onethousand ninehundred thirty dependents in vietnam dash roughly onefourth of them military families stop the latest figuresve [deletion: first] in september [deletion: wh] show twothousand onehundred thirty dependents [XXXX indicating deletion] stop this is story their life stopunparen moredeepe mots ajoutes: 16 mots [deletion: ajoutes] rayes: 11 beverly deepe carte 44 B Deepe t/a press tribune newyork 16o02 prowald dependent two [insertion: Saigon] quote oh this was just another crisis cmaunquote the young american [deletion: wiv] wife army captain said referring to vietnams third [deletion: bloo] socalled coup detat sunday [deletion: stoppara] stopquote we just stayed home like always stopunquote [insertion: para] quote everyone [XXXX indicating deletion: brings aye baseball bat when they come here and chips aye notch on it for each crisis stop mine is about full stopunquote para the motherve three small children comma she said [deletion: she] his family had been here quote three coups [deletion: un stopun stopdash] unquotedash [XXXX indicating deletion] [deletion: which has become] indicating she was an quote oldtimer unquote who has been here [insertion: illegible] since november last year when ngo dinh diem regime was toppled stoppara the numberve coups here has become aye standard unitve measure for the american families dash two coups means since january [XXXX indicating deletion] [illegible] two years stoppara moredeepe mots ajoutes: 5 mots [deletion: ajoutes] rayes: 11 beverly deepe carte 44 B Deepe t/a press tribune newyork [XXXX indicating deletion] 16003 prowald dependents three [deletion: for] for example mrs joe williams comma wifeve navy commander comma has learned vietnam quickly stop on august fifth dash during tonkin gulf crisis undash she and husband were playing golf in norfolk virginia when [deletion: learned would be] [XXXX indicating deletion] informed they were being rushed to vietnam [deletion: to] stoppara quote eye [deletion: neve] nearly fell off my golfcart cmaunquote she has gasped stop three weeks later she [XXXX indicating deletion] quote still in aye stateve shock unquote she arrived in vietnam just as student demonstrators forced prime minister majgen nguyen khanh stop stepdown from office stop undaunted she went shopping first day comma returning [insertion: [illegible] calm sunday morn] to find house had been on fire stoppara sweek on she et husband joe went to radio station to telephone their rele relatives in tennessee stoppara quote aye man came running up stairs and asked why all troops were outside gates cmaunquote husband explained in southern drawl stopquote the rebel troops had taken over and we did notrpnot [insertion: [illegible]] even know it stop the guard made us sneak out the back alley to avoid troops stopunquote para moredeepe mots ajoutes: 8 mots rayes: 14 beverly deepe carte no. 44 B Deepe t/a press tribune newyork 16004 prowald dependents four they taxied through calm sectionve city and quote mo unquotedash as mrs williams is called undash casually went shopping for earrings stoppara quote when we heard troops had surrounded airport comma we knew she could notrpnot get to our home nearby cmaunquote husband explained calmly stop quote [deletion: she took taxi to friend] she went to friends and as [insertion: she] got outve taxi the armored cars rolled by [deletion: by] stop thats when it really hit her cmaunquote [XXXX indicating deletion] moredeepe mots ajoutes: 1 mots rayes: 4 beverly deepe carte no. 44 B Deepe t/a press tribune newyork 16012 prowald dependents five though notrpnot aye shot was fired during bloodless revolt comma [deletion: some] many american housewives complained they had been kept in the dark about the developments stop with civlian telephones cutoff comma they were forced rely on american military radio station which warned americans keepoff streets and notrptnot to attempt [deletion: to break] breaking through any roadblocks stop even during late evening hours comma radio station repeated the first [XXXX indicating deletion] [illegible] rebel statements [XXXX indicating deletion] which wanted to [deletion: expel] arrest khanh [deletion: from government and arrest him] stop many [deletion: though] thought the coup against khanh had succeeded [XXXX indicating deletion] [insertion: [illegible]] though negotiations [deletion: had been] were later initiated stoppara moredeepe mots ajoutes: 9 mots rayes: 8 beverly deepe carte 44 B Deepe t/a press tribune newyork 16014 prowald dependents six but the quote oldtimers unquote took [deletion: this coup] the sunday troop movements casually stoppara quote eye [deletion: was] stopped at my jeweler to pick up [deletion: some] my dangly earrings and he was stuffing all his gold in the safe and screamed “its another coup cmaunquote wifeve navy lieutenant [deletion: laughed] said stopquote well give me my earrings cmaunquote she told him stopquote we might be evacuated stop quote he kept screaming its aye coup and who could think about earrings but eye got them anyway cmaunquote she said stoppara moredeepe mots ajoutes: 1 mots rayes: 5 beverly deepe carte 44 B Deepe t/a press tribune newyork 16020 prowald dependents seven but even [insertion: [illegible]] the teenagers [deletion: take the situation] view vietnam [deletion: from aye] with cloistered calmness stopparen [XXXX indicating deletion] most american families live behind barbedwire or bamboo fences [deletion: in the upperclass villas in] sprinkled throughout old french quarterve town [deletion: stopunquote] stopunparen [XXXX indicating deletion] when aye grenade exploded down the block from one american home twelve yearold son [deletion: quot] wrote his grandmother quote nothing much happens here stop they just bombed the bar across the street but only coupla people scratched stopunquote paren his mother censored the letter unparen stoppara despite casualness [deletion: though] american families have received evacuation instructions comma and have been told keep one evacuation kit packed stoppara one housewife has [deletion: in] packed her evacuation kit two silk brocade dresses stopquote the comies can have my washed out cottons cmaunquote she said stop nearby [insertion: door] [deletion: was] brown attache case with [deletion: all] quote every letter my husbands written me in ten yearsve marriage stop eyem notrptnot going to leave that behind stoppara she looked around airconditioned study and moaned quote but eyed have to leave my wedding pictures and my mothers sterling silver candelabra stopunquote enditdeepe mots ajoutes: 6 mots rayes: 12 beverly deepe carte 44 B Deepe

Date

1964, Aug. 16

Subject

Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Civilians in war; Military dependents; Diplomats' spouses; Vietnam (Republic)

Location

Saigon, South Vietnam

Coordinates

10.8231; 106.6311

Size

20 x 26 cm

Container

B187, F2

Format

dispatches

Collection Number

MS 363

Collection Title

Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers

Creator

Keever, Beverly Deepe

Collector

Keever, Beverly Deepe

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Publisher

Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Language

English