Article about the number of reporters in South Vietnam

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Title: Article about the number of reporters in South Vietnam
Description: Article by Beverly Keever for Dateline about the number of reporters in South Vietnam growing in 1966.
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BY BEVERLY DEEPE
More foreign newsmen
SAIGON, VIETNAM.
cover the
elections for constitutional-drafting assembly than any other single event
in the history of the Vietnam war. The record-breaking number was 505.
"We accredited 160 correspondents during the five days before the
election," one tired sergeant in the American military information office
explained. "We had French, Indian, Tunisian, Australian, Algerian as well
as Americans come flood in here. Believe me, the press corps is really
growing. I remember when I arrived here in October, 1965, there were 2269
correspondents accredited here."
Another sergeant chimed ins
"It was a small United Nations around
here xxx during the election period."
As of September 9, 1966, a breakdown of correspondents accredited
to the American military command were:
United States citizens
Non-U. S. citizens
Vietnamese
192
217
71
480
AMERICAN
Incoming/correspondents during the election period included
Bob Considine; Murrey Marder and Joseph Alsop of the Washington Post;
Selwyn Feinstain of the Wall Street Journal, Edward Morgan, Arthur Miller
and Louis Calvo of ABC; Sam Zelman of CBS.
Recent departures from Vietnam included Glenn Troelstrup of U. S. News
and World Report; Thomas Joyce of the Detroit News; Richard Frykland of
the Washington Star and Ken Armstrong, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Al Wasserman
and Chet Huntley of NBC.
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Date: 1966, Sep.
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Reporters and reporting; War correspondents
Location: Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6311
Size: 20 x 26 cm
Container: B191, F6
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