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363-08368 to 363-08371.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-08368 to 363-08371
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Title
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Article about the state of journalism in Vietnam
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Description
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Original title: N/A, Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about the state of journalism 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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By Beverly Deepe
SAIGON--For the first time in the Vietnam war, the number
of correspondents working for foreign news media here has topped
the 400 mark.
The U.S. military accrediting office here announced that
By
as of July 2, 411 correspondents had been accredited to the
command to cover the war. The figure is expected to rise more
in the near future. This figure includes foreign correspondents
as well as Vietnamese correspondents working for foreign press
media of all categories. American sergeants worked feverishly
to accredit all incoming and resident correspondents by June 30,
the deadline for re-accreditation.
"We've whipped out 1111 accreditations since January 1 of
this year,"
one American sergeant explained. "And that's alot
of people." In some cases non-resident correspondents would be
accredited more than once.
Increase
Vietnamese political developments and the bombing of
the Hanoi and Haiphong petroleum storage areas brought an
Inlux of correspondents into the country. Normal rotations
and vacations also kept the Saigon press corps influx.
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For Associated Press, George McArthur flew in from
Banila thon the American Consulate was burned in Hue on June
but has since returned home when the political situation
de-escalated. Andy Borowiec, AP bureau chief in Goneva, is
preparing to leave Vietnam shortly after a three-month fill-in
for AP's vacationing Pulitzer Prize winner, Peter Arnett.
Bob Tucknam has arrived from London for a long tour here;
Hob Gassaway, formerly in Texas, has increased the AP strength
hore. Photographer Horst Paas has rotuned from two months
assignment in Indonesia.
For ABC, Roger Feterson has arrived from Chicago
for a one-year tour and David Snell, also from Chicago, for
a three-month tour. Eliott Bernstein has arrived from New York
for temporary assignment.
Ron Steinman has replaced Jack Foon na bureau chief
for H10. Potor Hereford has taken over the CBB bureau,
replacing Bob Allison.
John Fentress has arrived from Mashington to head the
nou Time Magazine bureau, giving Southeast Asia chief Frank
McCulloch opportunity to return to Hong Kong and cover other
countries. Bon Moner now honds the newly-established Liic
Magazine bureau.
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Saigon newsmen hear AP'a Hilton Marmor in thinking about
A vacation trip here...Eric Pace has arrived to replace ou
York Times Neal Shechan, who's returning to lieu York not
month....
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Jack Steele of Washington has arrived for a three-month
assignment for Ecripps-Howard, replacing Walt Friedenberg...
Jack Foisie of the Tos Angeles Times leaving in two weeks for
home leave and then bureau chief-ship in Bangkok, He's to be
replaced by Bill Tuohy, formerly of Newsweek, who's soon
returning from home leave. Jon Angeles Times' John Handolph,
formerly of Tokyo, is also a new arrival.
John Mecklin, former director of USIS hore in 1965
and author of "Mission in Torment," han arrived for brief
assignment. Ho's associate editor of Fortine,
ayc major Vietnam piece.
which is doing
Washington Star's Dick Critchfield on brief vacation
In Hong Kong...Black Star's Jam Fickerell has returned in good
health after several bouts with malaria and other complications...
Peter Chew of National Observer seen visiting U.S. Seabee camps
during part of his visit. Richard Dudman has been in-country,
representing St. Louis Post Dispatch. Wendell Merrick,
formerly free-lancing, now in Hong Kong before assuming
ansignment here with U.S. Wo World Roporb.
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Harold Kaplan has returned to U.S.A. to serve as aye
deputy assistant Secretary of State--a fine promotion after
a hectic tour year as press briefing officer for the U.S. Mission
here. He's replaced by Jack Stuart, former press attache at
New Delhi, who was introduced to the press at a Kaplan-sponsored
reception in mid-June.
Deputy Ambassador William Porter in late June entertained
selected members of the press corps at a reception to introduce
Robert Komer, President Johnson's special assistant for Vietnam's
Rural Development (Pacification) program. Some press correspondents
expressed astonishment to see the Presidential assistant at the
cocktail reception wearing combat fatigues and boots after
rushing back from aye day-long inspection trip in the Mekong
Delta. One Vietnamese journalist bluntly complained to the
President's envoy about the soaring Saigon inflation; an
American correspondent complained to the Deputy Ambassador Porter
that his direct-athidibution press conferences on pacification
wore much more optonistic in Washington than his backgrounders
to the Saigon press cos here.
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Date
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Unknown
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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
