Word: sheehan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAYMOND SHEEHAN Providence...
...Viet Nam reporting by David Halberstam. Neil Sheehan and Malcolm Browne contributes to the downfall of the Diem regime...
Balanced Footage. Back in Manhattan, secretaries and vice presidents and every newsman in town, including CBSs John Laurence, on home leave from Viet Nam, poured into the network headquarters. As ABC-TV News Veep Bill Sheehan put it,"a lot of union rules went out the window" as staffers fell to without regard for jurisdistional niceties. ABC's three-man orbituary unit hastily updated its canned footage on King, and CBS's Charles Kuralt narrated a 20-minute pretaped orbituary covering King from childhood...
These words are spoken by three representatives of Viet Nam's peasant millions who have lived with war in their homeland for more than 20 years. Their stories were collected in 1965 and 1966 in a series of interviews by Susan Sheehan, a New Yorker writer and the wife of Neil Sheehan, who was a New York Times correspondent in Saigon. In addition to this Vietnamese trio, seven other people are presented in the book: a landlord, a Montagnard, an orphan, a Buddhist monk, a Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese soldier, a politician...
...conflict has been so thoroughly reported as the Viet Nam war; not only the battles but the life and fate of the villages have been described many times. Author Sheehan adds nothing new, but her pen portraits are affecting and authentic...