Article about journalists in Vietnam

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Title: Article about journalists in Vietnam
Description: Original title: N/A, Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about journalists in Vietnam, for the Overseas Press Club of America
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SAIGON
x x x from Beverly Deepe
Recent arrivals to Vietnam included Lee Lescaze and Joseph Kraft
of the Washington Post; Robert Keatley of the all Street Journal; David
Robert Boyd of Knight Newspapers;
Welsh of Ramparts Magazine;
Clarence
of Reader's Digest; Robert L. Pisor of
Hall and Gordon Gaskill
correspondent
the Detroit Daily News.
Igor Oganesoff,
with CBS News,
stopped briefly
in Vietnam, after recently shifting his assigned base from Europe to Tokyo.
Expected soon are Kermit Lansner, managing editor of Newsweek;
Len Giovannetti heading a
Hedley Donovan,
editor-in-chief of Time;
11-man NBC crew to do a special documentary featuring
TV's Perry Mason.
Raymond Burr,
the
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Walter ("Johnny") Apple Jr. sponsored a
farewell reception for Joseph Treaster, who came to Vietnam with the
U. S. Army 1st Air Cavalry Division, was later discharged in-country and
became stringer for the Times. He will a join the Net Metropolitan
desk of the Times as a staff correspondent.
The American military command announced the opening of their fourth
press camp at the II Corps Headquarters city of Pleiku in the central
highlands.
The command said the camp is capable of serving 25 correspondents
in tent billets furnished with steel cots, mattresses, bed linen, pillows and
laundry service-for a $1-a-night billet fee. Other official press camps are
Fituated at Danang, Nhatrang and Qui Nhon, but subsidiaries sprout up where
ever the action is, such as at Dong Ha near the Dmili Demilitarized zone.
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The military command also announced it has accredited 480 correspondents
as of April 24. This included 191 Americans, 104 Vietnamese and 185 other
nationalities.
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Date: Unknown
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Location: Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6311
Size: 20 x 26 cm
Container: B191, F7
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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Language: English