Article about a Saigon Christmas Eve bombing

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Title
Article about a Saigon Christmas Eve bombing
Description
Original title: "blast", Keever's title: "Terrorist Attack on U.S. Billet makes a black Christmas", article about a Saigon Christmas Eve terrorist bombing, published by the New York Herald Tribune
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onocapte
press
tribune newyork
24230 prorosenfeld blast one saigon for aye cecond at sunset comme
at exactly eis oclock comma saigon stood still stop all know twas eye
bleak n christmas stoppara
four american nurses in silken cocktail dresses waited for
the elevator in the lobby of the american officers club where they would
eat christmas eve dinner dash stopped undash turned around and began
to treat the dead atop their brocades became bloody semicolon they
never ate dinner stoppera moredeepe
mots ajoutes:
mots rayes*
beverly deepe car to no. 1
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encompte
press
tribuno newyorkc
24233 prorosenfold blast two this correspondent was untying the
pink colo collophane bow on a christmas gift from vietnamese friend
dash stopped and called police officials stop the package was ineft
unopened for sim
stoppara
eye regnffin vietnamoso nowaboy chased an american eggiii
down tudo dash freedom street undash shouting quote you buy unquote
but did notrpnot finish the sentence stoppare
eye vietnamose secretary in white flowing comm rushod
into novelty store to buy lastminute christmas gift dash but stopped
in doorweg and lined the street amongst the mobs to watch the
firetrucks and amba ambulences stoppare morodcepe
mote ajoutess
mote reyess / /
beverly deope carte no. 197
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enoompte
press
tribuno newyorkc
24235 proroconfeld blast three quote twas just six oolock: amaunquote
an american sorgeant expeline explained stopquote eye was in eye
printors shop stop just as the foreman pushod button for workers to
go homo no hoard this oracking explosion stoppara
requote eye rushed onto the street and saw this mushroom
cloud stop tea o twes pink stopunquote para
he laughed in bo at the incongruity stoppara
quote twas the same color as the sunset onnunquote ho
continued lighting menthol cigarette stopquote then the h pink could
cloud became nyo black cloud stoppara morodeepe
moto a joutoss
mots rayost
beverly doope carte no. 197
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encompte
prese
tribune nowyork
24235 prozosonfold blast four
when the bleak cloud had cleared
two americans wore killed and fifty seven wounded dash the most clos
costly notve terrorism yet inal inflicted upon american gogliis
serving ax in vietnam stoppara sye powerful chargeve tttnanttt
had been planted in the parking lot under the american officer
quarters in downtown saigon stoppare
ironically the officer quarters axaro nemod quote the brink
unquote dash about the positionve vietnam in the political and military
war against communist vietcong guerrillas stoppara moredeepe
mote ajoutos!
nots reyes:
beverly doope oasto no. 197
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encompte
picad
tribuno nonpost:
24235 proronenfold blast five estimated fifty percent quote the brink
unquote received heavy damage semicolon somove zoom rooms completely
demolished stop onginove car pasted in lot thrown thrity thrity
thirty foot anta soroos street stop impnotre bloat hoovily
damaged omerigen ormod forgen radio station comma tooking name
equipment otomashing steakve christmas carol records stoppaza
windows in one blook radiou radiun downtown saigon rippled
ante Freedom atreet eto to bloats army mindor onekod in
mistetes information pervice midst routine prese briefing
offension correspondents sourried away stoppere
Parocs place in mank caravelle hotel windows comma
aily painted with christmas chocr comma tumbled onto street stop the
mistletoe arnolrod sont colon the snow it in alabovo glass and
ialeles of orgatal stop avalancheve class toppled the real pino troots
txeen on the sidewalk comma breaking gey bulbs and branches stoppara
noredoope
mote ajoutons mote rayons
boverly doopo cartonc. 197
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prea
tribune nowyozis
24235 prorononfold blast six nye little vietnamese flower gir
comme in tattered clothes comme picked up christmas tree brachos
twigs and placed them in her basket of Jasmine stoppera
three american celiis watched the ambulances and firetrucks
pazade by stoppere
quote you know eye live in the brit brink oneunquote the
lioutenant explained stop eyed have been eating dinner there but eye
went to the onlisted mons mess for a drink instead stoppara stopunquote para
quote eye saved your life cmaunquote his sergeant friend
laughed mom slapping him on the back stopunquote stopquote you
can buy the next fifteen roundve drinks stopunquote para moredeepe
mots ajoutes*
mote anyon3
beverly deepe carte no. 197
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press
tribune newyork
24245 prorogenfold blast six seven
major robert schweitzer of ohdnung
ohioagoximy sauntered across the plaza in sweatyxings fatigues
and combat boots stop he carried his carbine in one hand semicolon the
other was bandaged stoppara
quote this is oneve my botter daye in vietnam ome unquote
he explained calmly as sooty smoat streamod down his face stopquote eye
came in from the street to help the a wounded and got caught in the
second explosions stop there were about twenty wounded inside and we
vere trying to get the people out from under the dobre dib debris
when a slob of concrete demo down on my hand stoppare
roquote alotve people ware under the masove debris but not
nobody got excited stop nobody people were calling for help just to let
us know where they were stop then a slabve concreto come down on my
hand came the secondary explosions and a slabve concrete came down on
my hand stoppars moredeepe
mote ajoutens
mote rayon$
beverly deepe carte no. 197
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tribuno newyork
25001 prozosenfeld blast eight leaning on fenderve ambulance
he explained quote all day eye helicoptered around binh long
provinco stop thats near the pau oanbodian border where the war
is more honest stop oyed like to go back there stopunquote para
he slide into ambulance stoppara
quote oge was going to go to mass tonight and eyem still
going stogunquote onditioope
mote ajoutent
nots rayons
beverly deepe oar to no. 197
Date
1964, Dec. 24
Subject
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Atrocities; Terrorism; Christmas--Vietnam (Republic); Bombings; Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Size
20 x 26 cm
Container
B187, F1
Format
dispatches
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English