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363-08270 to 363-08274
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Article for Dateline
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Description
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Original Title: "Le Eckles", Keever's title: "The Woman Correspondent", Article draft about women correspondents in the Vietnam War, for Dateline Magazine
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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(LI ACV PIO) SAIGON
Women
"I just wanted to help."
бе елсе
This was the answer given by Miss Le Eckles, of San Fernando, California,
when asked why she had left California and come to the Republic of Vietnam, at
her own expense and the aid of some friends.
Miss Eckles, daughter of Ifr. C. P. Eckles of 11505 Vimy Road, Granada Hills,
California, and Leora A. Eckles, of 851 N. Brand, San Fernando, California, was
employed as a telephone operator when considerable publicity was given to protests
against the U.S. Policy in the Republic of Vietnam.
Her reaction to these protests was a decision to come to Vietnam and assist
the people in their struggle for freedom and independence. She drew out her life
savings and with the assistance of friends, purchased a ticket to Saigon.
Arriving in a strange land, with no knowledge of its language or customs, the
pert 22 year-old Auburn haired volunteer was robbed of her clothing, money and
camera after just a few days. But this did not dampen her enthusiasm or determin-
ation to help.
After a short, but eventful stay in Saigon, Iiss Eckles became aquainted with
the Budduet Institute Orphanage an after a tour of its facilities and meeting
its many orphans, she decided that here was where she would devote her efforts.
Attired in the traditional Vietnamese dress, the Ao Dai, Liss Eckles can be
seen any time, at the Undduet Institute Orphanage, performing a miried of tasks,
in her position of Assistant Director of Orphans. It is not an easy life, but
then, few things that are really worth while are easy. She works and lives with
the mans, most of them the victoms of the years of conflict between the Viet
ag and the citizens of the free Republic of Vietnam. Her typical working day
lasts between 16 and 17 hours, with meals taken in, Vietnamese style, and her
room she shares with 67 of the orphans.
Miss Eckles plans to remain in Saigon for another six months, she has been
here approximately that long, and then return home for a short vac ation, to
return to Vietnam for what she calls "an extended tour."
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March 7, 1966
Mr. Ed Kiester
Parade Magazine
733 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Dear Mr. Kiester:
Please forgive the delay in answering your cable for
an add to the "Dateline" piece about other women in Vietnam.
Between Honolulu, Humphrey, visiting editor and more war newn,
life has been madness here.
I hope this add is satisfactory. If not, please don't
hesitate to ask for more detail.
Sincerely yours,
DEE
(Miss) Beverly Deepe
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Beverly Deepe
add to Dateline picce
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March 7, 1966
Another active won an correspondent is UPI's Betsy
Halstead, who is regularly seen at Special Forces camps
and field installations wearing the black and green camouflage
of the Vietnamese Marines. The wife of Dirck Halstead, also
with UPI, red-haired Betsy was the first correspondent to
ride in carrier-based jets from the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet and
the first to photograph the Guan-based B-52 SAO bomber
missions within south Vietnam.
Beveral other husband-wife teams have cropped up
in Vietnam. Mary Pickerell actively helps her husband Jim
with research for Black Star Publishing Company.
Susan Sheehan,
is free-lancing, but
wife of New York Times' Neil Shechen,
WROTE
officially accredited to the New Yorker for which she worked
Ruth alloy, wife of UPI's bureau
before becoming a wife.
chief Mike Malloy, is officially accredited as a free-lancer,
but has written a long serial on her trip to Communist China.
She has Canadian citizenship.
(More)
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Beverly Decpe
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has
Jill Krenentz, fiancee of NX's Dean Brealis,
surveyed and photographed Vietnamese orphanages, hospitals and
social institutions. A former photographer with the New York
Herald Tribune in New York, she has stacks of photos taken
in Vietnam She is officially accredited to BC. Brunette
Ann Bryan represents the overseas weekly. Photographer Rena
Briand, of French-German descent, is also currently free-
lancing in Vietnam. A recent arrival is blonde Frances
Fitzgerald, now accredited to Weekend polegraph of London
Daily telegraph.
Even after the withdrail of American dependents
in February, 1965, shortly after the initial American airstrikes
against North Vietnam, a number of other American women have
been filtering in to work for the government or government-
approved agoncies. The American military command in Vietnam
has assigned two WAC's to assist the Vietnamese Women's Armed
Forces Corps (called Waf-see); and a dozen others to serve
as typists and stenographers within the headquarters.
In addition, ten U.S. Hlavy nurses, 139 Army nurses and
16 Air Force nurses are assigned to hospitals within the
country.
(More)
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Beverly Deepe
add to Dateline piece
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Several American nures as also assigned by the
civilian U.S. Agency for International Development to
"advise" Vietnamese provincial and regional hospital staffs
the
in the countryside. One of these is blonde Ann Fry,
daughter of an American colonel, sho is now serving her
second 18-month tour in the Mekong Delta region south of
Saigon.
The latest female arrivals here have created bomb-
shell reactions--workers for the American Red Cross in the
Principally responsible for special
American base areas.
services and entertainment of the American troops,
a minimum
of four Rod Corps girls are based in the major areas protected
by U.S. troops, such as Danang and Bien Hoa.
BOCALC this is
a war without frontlines, their fent puptent existence can
often become the focal point of firece military action.
"I've never seen anything like it," one sergeant,
"In Korea, of course,
a
veteran of Korea explained to me.
we had nurses in the rear areas, but they were secure. I
remember I was blinded and in the hospital and when I heard
the click-click of an American nurses' shoes on the hospital
floor I was so happy. I knew I was safe. But, now we have
these Red Cross girls running around the base area--and we
can be attacked anytime. Whings are really changing."
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Date
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1966, Mar. 7
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B191, F2
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
