Letter from Beverly Keever about the difficulties facing the Saigon press corps

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Digital Object Identifier
363-06111 to 363-06128
Title
Letter from Beverly Keever about the difficulties facing the Saigon press corps
Description
Long letter to Mr. Rosenfeld from Beverly Keever about the Saigon press corps and tensions with the U.S. military in Vietnam. She adresses corrspondents with particularly bad relationships with the military, including Horst Faas, Peter Arnett, and Morley Safer. She discusses a USIA delegation that came to listen to reporters in Saigon, where the reporters demanded no censorship and no diversion of the military to keep reporters away from major battles. The reporters also refuted that the Western press was losing the war, and pointed instead to military failure. Then she turns to issues for the New York Herald Tribune office specifically, namely difficulty communicating with the head office, low personnell numbers, surveillance by the Vietnamese government, and the lies from American official sources. She labels TIME as the paper that gets the best political leaks, but says the New York Herald Tribune has the best Vietnamese sources due to Phạm Xuân Ẩn's work. She also briefly mentions the Newspaper Guild strike in New York
Date
1965, Sep. 18
Subject
Journalists; War correspondents; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. Office of Information; Government and the press; Freedom of the press; Censorship; New York herald tribune; Phạm, Xuân Ẩn, 1927-2006; United States Information Agency; Faas, Horst, 1933-2012; Arnett, Peter, 1934-; Safer, Morley; Government secrets
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Container
B188, F2
Format
commercial correspondence
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Collector
Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English
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Item sets
Keever
keever - 1965