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363-08350 to 363-08351
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Title
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Article about the size of the foreign press corps in Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: N/A, Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about the size of the foreign press corps in Vietnam, for the Overseas Press Club of America
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AI Usage Disclosure
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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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Transcript
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TO:
SIBBY CHRISTENSEN
FROM: BEV DEEPE, SAIGON
DATE;
MAY 10,
1966
SAIGON.
The numerical strength of the foreign press corps
has risen to more than 350---an all-tine high for war coverage
since World War II. (Note to editor: Please check how many
correspondents covered World War II.) During a typical
ending April 15, aye total of 374 repeat 374 news media
were accredited by the Vietnanese government and the U.S.
Military Assistance Command in Saigon. Of these 374, 147
were American oitizens, 70 were Vietnamese assigned to
foreign news media and 157 were of nationalities neither
American nor Vietnamese, according to official sources.
Official military sources here the high-water mark
of Korean war coverage reached 235 at the time President-
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the country before his
first-term inauguration in 1952.
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To; Sibby Christensen
From: Bev Deepe
As Vietnam's political crisis eased slightly during
early May, the work loads of the Western press permitted some
The Associated Press sponsored aye press-
time for joviality.
wide congratulatory buffet dinner for Peter Arnett,
winner
of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize, and his charming wife, Nina,
before their departure for New York.
The
("Nina deserves congratulations as much as I do,"
Peter remarked during the course of the party. "She had to
get up at 4 in the morning as many times as I did.")
thirty-one year old Peter claims he's the southernmost
recepient of the Pulitzer. Born in Bluff, New Zealand,
(pop. 2000), Poter says all points south lead to Antarctica.
Among the one-inch high stack of congratulatory cables,
Peter's proudest was from the "mayor, councillors and citizens
of Bluff."
Mr. and Mrs. Mert Perry of Newsweek also hosted aye
small informal farewell for the Arnett's.
ABC bureau chief Charles Klensch held a jubilant
celebration following his narriage to Elsa Aeschbacher.
The Saigon staff of Time-Life held at farewell party
for Janes Wilde before his transfer to Paris.
Jin Pickerell of Black Star was rushed out of country
for hospitalization with pneumonia and malaria. His wife
Mary accompanied him.
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Date
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1966, May 10
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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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, F7
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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
