Last Days in Vietnam is a 2014 American documentary film written, produced and directed by Rory Kennedy. In this case, meaning, "You're not allowed to bring out Vietnamese military people who were under obligation to stand and fight." Go." We've got these people over here." We were very close to the action. We didn't know how much longer we could last. Now that Option Four had been declared, I don't think anyone said, "Okay. MyFootage, LLC And this full colonel had like eight kids and a wife. Kiem Do, Captain, South Vietnamese Navy (in Vietnamese, subtitled): He said that the situation is getting desperate now. "What do you want to do? That's it. Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: People like myself and others took the bull by the horns and organized an evacuation. After we'd had a flurry of choppers, and cleaned out more than half of them and there were 420 people left. And pointed to the CH-46 that was just flying away. Operation Frequent Wind-Wikipedia. Kirk after the fall of Saigon. Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: The plan was to sail all the large ships of the South Vietnamese Navy down the Saigon River to the sea and rendezvous at Con Son Island. Terry McNamara, Consul General: The people on the boat were scared. Showing all 1 items Jump to: Summaries (1) Summaries. At the risk of their careers and possible court-martial, a handful of individuals took matters into their own hands. Rep. Millicent Fenwick, (R) New Jersey (archival): We've sent, so to speak, battleship after battleship and bomber after bomber and 500,000 and more men and billions and billions of dollars. If we're gonna really get, get hit, it'll be there. And as the rain started to let up, we had reached the area of the river past the channel, past the little islands where it opened up into a broad river again. Selama minggu-minggu terakhir kacau Perang Vietnam, Vietnam Angkatan Darat Utara menutup di atas Saigon sebagai panik orang-orang Vietnam Selatan putus asa mencoba untuk melarikan diri. Literally, anything that could not be fastened down or was not fastened down was being taken away. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State: When I tell President Ford the airport is being shelled and that it's now time to pull the plug, he keeps coming back time and again. Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: We had expected, frankly, a longer time period to get ready. In many minds, this is how it is remembered, and this is what is reflected in the film. Literally, we're so relaxed we have nothing to worry about. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library It was the deputy CIA station chief's apartment building. Well, turned out not to be the last helicopter because there was another horrendous screw up. I was hoping that he would reciprocate. But now they had all these people. And I'm convinced that if we had sent them back or took them back they would have killed them all. But there were other independent efforts to get people out. We could see that the South Vietnamese army was eroding. Richard Nixon (archival): We have adopted a plan for the complete withdrawal of all U.S. combat ground forces. Pierre and Loan Le I was assigned to the American Embassy in Saigon. I wanna thank you." He didn't get permission from Washington to do that. Dam Pham, Lieutenant, South Vietnamese Army: I went with my wife to the embassy. “Last Days in Vietnam” anchors a special week of programming related to the Vietnam War, and will be preceded at 8:00 p.m. This could be hundreds of people. They went, they took their money, went to the Navy exchange or commissary, bought all the clothes and food they could get, took it up and gave it to the refugees they had befriended. The message was, 'The temperature is 105 and rising,' and then Bing Crosby’s 'White Christmas.' (2014). The Marines started going out as choppers came in. So we went to every office and told them to start pulling stuff. The operation was the subject of the 2014 PBS documentary Last Days in Vietnam. The military support, the materiel support, was not coming. confused, overpopulated streets of Saigon, we hear the voice of then Captain Stuart Herrington. And as soon as the chopper would land, they would be brought into the restricted area where a couple of the marines would escort them into the aircraft. Miki Nguyen: Just thunderous loud noise. Well, not quite. Slate: Dam Pham was arrested and sent to a re-education camp. And the first thing in my sight, was, I didn't see that soldier there anymore, on that wall. We had a wave of humanity. 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He hovered there for like 10 minutes and we couldn't figure out what was doing and it turned out what he was doing was taking his flight suit off. Slate: In January 1973, the Paris Peace Accords was signed. Joan Churchill, A.S.C. When I first got in, I feel so good. People holding letters saying, you know, "I worked for the Americans, please let me in." Here from Saigon radio hookup is Laurie's report on the surrender. Terry McNamara, Consul General: I remember looking back at the sun setting over the Mekong Delta, which is a beautiful place, and thinking, "Well, I'll never see this again." So, General Carey comes out, gives me an apple and a cup of coffee or something and says, "We're under orders from the president. They wouldn't let us in, and the reason they wouldn't let us in is because the government there had recognized the new regime in Vietnam and these navy ships we were escorting were all flying South Vietnamese flags. So he lost everything. I saw a lot of South Vietnamese soldiers in underwear. You saw ships with thousands of refugees, including lots of soldiers. In April of 1975, the North Vietnamese Army was closing in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance was crumbling. They were just hoping desperately to get in. They were unbelievable. Lionel Rosenblatt I turned to him and said, "This is, this is my last load. On Monday, April 27, THE DAY THE 60’S DIED, During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. Now we had to evacuate the Marines. So, I said, "Why don't we take out the cook too?" Tim Chapin Ford was bombarded by questions from the press after he got off Air Force One. You know, and they'd say, you know, "We're under orders from the ambassador, we're doing the best we can". Everybody was looking for ways to get out as soon as possible. But, it indicated to what extent chaos had descended on this entire operation. I actually scared. By the 5th of April, the North Vietnamese had 15, even 16 divisions heading in the direction of Saigon. A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas. So I spent one sleepless night worrying about this, "How am I going to do this?" I realized I had lost everything. Joseph McBride, State Department Officer: Ambassador Martin was dragging out the evacuation as long as he could to get as many South Vietnamese out as possible. Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk: As most navy operations are, it was very carefully planned. At least allow us to begin putting together lists of South Vietnamese we should rescue." I was last in Saigon in 1969, as a Navy JAG officer who actually opposed the war, until I visited it again earlier this year. And then we raised the American flag; we tried to do that with as much dignity as we could. ", Mike Sullivan, Marine Embassy Guard: We were going up the stairs. I was six and a half years old. Le Nguyen Binh Juan Valdez, Marine Embassy Guard: The choppers started coming in at 10-minute intervals. We had to go through narrow channels between the islands. We ended up with 157 people aboard this ship. My mom grabbed my little sister, who was about six months at that time and a little brother who was about three or four years old and myself. We've so far taken a total of 17 helicopters. $9.99 Buy. A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers. But there were still artillery fire. My mom was just, you know, wow. Kissinger Associates Ambassador to South Vietnam (archival): Well of course, every embassy in the world has plans for it. But people could see what was going on. Jane E. Tucker, Additional Researchers Nonton Last Days in Vietnam (2014). I had sung my anthem many times, but never before had I felt like I did on that day. Gail Evertz and Scott Minerd I don't think anybody really understood the magnitude of it until we looked at what we got in front of us. Reporter (archival audio): Rockets exploded all over the base, touching off three major fires. Associated Press And I remember the dawn breaking and the sun coming up, seeing what I had seen as a radar display in person. Paul Jacobs, Commanding Officer, USS Kirk: There were no words to describe what a ship looks like that holds 200 and it's got 2,000 on it. Binh Pho, College Student: It's time to get out. Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: We steamed down to Con Son Island, and we could see on the radar display that there were a lot of blips. Last Days in Vietnam on Youtube; Last edited on 28 March 2021, at 11:12. Chris and Sheila Kennedy Ambassador to South Vietnam (archival): 3:45…, Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: Colonel Madison says to me, "We're screwed. I was 42 years old, an old fox on the sea. Stu, you stay down here in the parking lot and keep these 420 people warm." Michael Tuckman Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: I went aboard the Kirk and met with Captain Paul Jacobs. Domenic Mastrippolito I was trying to get the truth back to Washington. Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: As the sun came up General Smith, who was our defense attaché out at Tan Son Nhut, contacted the ambassador and said, "The plan to use the fixed-wing to get a few thousand people out today isn't going to work. Salimah El-Amin This FAQ is empty. I was the last one out. And all sides of it were filled 2-300 feet back. Sonuma-RTBF archive images If billions and billions didn't do at a time when we had all our men there, how can $722 million save the day? Shutterstock, Inc.  "One Helicopter at a Time" With so many South Vietnamese helicopters landing on … Wondering, you know, "what's going to happen to here," you know, whether they had truly forgotten about us. The agreement called for a cease-fire between North and South Vietnam, and marked the withdrawal of American troops. We had prepared three or four landing zones right across the street from the main runway of Tan Son Nhut airbase. A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis. This is incredible. I knew my dad was coming. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State: When President Ford went before the congress, he had two major concerns. We'd pulled out our troops in 1973 and public opinion at that point shifted. We were watching them fly over top over and over and over again. Ambassador to South Vietnam (archival): And I picked up the phone and told secretary Kissinger to inform the President that I had decided that we would have to go to Option Four. Stack the ammo because this one's gonna be ugly. Without these key unexamined pieces, Last Days in Vietnam ends up feeling like an American propaganda documentary – informative but one-sided.Please check out our website for full reviews of all the recent releases and awards contenders. Juan Valdez, Marine Embassy Guard: When that chopper landed, I told the marines, "Go, get in." Steve Hasty, Marine Consulate Guard: All our Vietnamese remained on the Pioneer Contender. And he was very angry and very disappointed. T3 Media It was big. Kiem Do, Captain, South Vietnamese Navy (in Vietnamese, subtitled): Our orders were very conflicting. CBC TV Archive Sales Josie Azzam On the ground, American soldiers must decide whether to obey White House orders or to risk treason. We have to duck down to fight with the wind of the chopper. Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk: One of our sailors could speak rudimentary Vietnamese. Last Days in Vietnam looks into a military defeat that still haunts and uncovers a victory for the best qualities of humanity. He knew that once the Americans were gone, the evacuation would be over. I sat down, looked around. Terry McNamara, Consul General: We were, under the terms of the Paris Agreement, committed to resupplying the South Vietnamese. Binh Pho, College Student: I remember I talk to my friend and he said, "Oh, it's our turn now, we're almost there." Somebody fired a B40 rocket at us. So, I went "One, two, three, four, five, six... ten. I asked the Vietnamese officer in charge to get in touch with the navy commander, Commodore Thang. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens. We can go down the river. You know one officer can smell another one. The end of April of 1975 was the whole Vietnam involvement in a microcosm. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance quickly crumbled. Everybody knew these buses were going to be going out to Tan Son Nhut airbase and there would be an escape from Vietnam. The lights of the helicopter inside radiated very clearly. With the clock ticking and the city under fire, American officers on the ground found themselves faced with a moral dilemma: whether to follow official policy and evacuate only U.S. citizens and their dependents, or to break the law and save the men, women and children they had come to value and love in their years in Vietnam. And he did. He cared for the human beings involved; they were not just pawns that once they had lost their military power were abandoned. They said "No more. He had been holding out hope that some kind of third-party solution could be worked out, so that South Vietnam could continue with some form of independence or autonomy. I think the answer is quite definitely no. So somebody was looking out for us that day. What follows is a basic overview that extends back to Vietnam’s early history, and covers America’s involvement in the war in general. And Ambassador Martin wouldn't hear of it. Sarah Botstein I told Armitage that we needed as many sailors as we could muster. Young officers in the embassy began to mobilize a black operation. During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. And we flew out. Use the HTML below. Below me I could hear feet running on the stairway. And I had 300 people with me. People were hoping to get in, and we were hoping to get people out and down to the airbase. So I assigned a few Marines to get rid of the money. It was a big deal for us. So we put him on the radio and he started broadcasting. A less than pleasant voyage. But I had a job to do, and it was an important job to do, I thought, to deny the enemy the South Vietnamese Naval ships. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. How you do it, I've talked to helicopter pilots and they can't figure out how he did that. And he was in tears, a family… the family were in tears and I said to him, "Get on the plane. John Jenkins Gerald Berry, Marine Pilot: So, they loaded some Vietnamese on my helicopter, and because I'm supposed to have the ambassador on board, we go right to the command ship, the USS Blue Ridge. Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: By late afternoon, the chopper flow at the embassy really started. Paul Jacobs, Commanding Officer, USS Kirk: We viewed them as enemy until we could verify who it, who it was, and then we realized that these were South Vietnamese trying to escape. And as I was putting my foot on the ramp, I fell down, and I'm just hanging on, and the ramps going up…. City after city and village after village fell to the North while the U.S. diplomats and military operatives still in the country contemplated withdrawal. They were rationing their artillery shells because they were running out. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own. And I said, "Oh no, of course not." Naja and David Lockwood We told Martin that he had to be on the last helicopter. We cannot take you." April, 1975. The seas were rolling and it was a somewhat precarious passage. Paul Jacobs, Commanding Officer, USS Kirk: That crew was very special. Hugh Doyle The biggest concern, of course, was basically the North Vietnamese or what remnants of the VC were there would ambush us at the narrowest portion and basically we'd get our ass handed to us. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate U.S. citizens only--or to risk treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they can. It's a presidential order. You've got to get the ambassador out." Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk (archival audio): Our flight deck will only take one helicopter at a time landing. Real high up. It's a 24-hour snapshot in time that hints at the atrocities happening before, during, and after the final evacuation of U.S. forces from the country. Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: We had worked a plan out to sail the ships to the Philippines. Ambassador, half of the South Vietnamese Army has disintegrated, we're in grave trouble. I went, and I said, "Mr. Ten!" Aimee Huffman Select and view a second film about the Vietnam War. So, I got to the roof and a CH-46 alighted on the rooftop, put its ramp down, and we got on board. My family's too big... My family's too big." The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State: We who made the agreement thought that it would be the beginning not of peace in the American sense, but the beginning of a period of co-existence which might evolve as it did in Korea into two states. So there was a standoff in the middle of the river. We couldn't think of what else to do, these other planes were looking for a place to land, so we just, just, physically pushed them. Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk: Turned out, all throughout the southern part of Vietnam, there were South Vietnamese army and air force installations with one or two or three or four helicopters, and those helicopters were flyable, their pilots were there. And he was being encouraged to think this might be possible. The roads were totally blocked. Scott Anderson So I kind of look up. Steve Hasty, Marine Consulate Guard: Could not see the bow of the landing craft from the stern and that's 60 feet. Dan Cogan Each helicopter took about 40 people. Slate: Later that year, they arrived in the United States. Is this what the Americans came for?" I had never heard Ford use a curse word in all the time I'd known him. You got to remember this is an ambassador who had lost his only son in combat in Vietnam. Last Days in Vietnam has an approval rating of 95% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 62 reviews, and an average rating of 8.40/10. Most of the Vietnamese navy ships were dead in the water. That Ambassador Martin is trying to evacuate all of Saigon through the U.S. Graham Martin, U.S. There are no wheels on them, they just have skids. But that morning, Ambassador Martin received a message that said within 24 hours the U.S. presence in Vietnam had to be closed out. So that starts the lift. Ambassador, we have to cut this tree down.". Kenneth P. Moorefield We are finally bringing American men home. As North Vietnamese forces swept into Saigon in April of 1975, one family risked everything to escape. He hovered with his wheels in and out of the water. So, we had to disarm them. Miki Nguyen: We were happy. There were dozens of ships. It may have been short-lived and minor in the bigger picture of the devastation wrought by the war, but that might make the victory even more significant. They should get out, they had business with Americans. We still had no organized plan for evacuating high-risk South Vietnamese, because we had an ambassador who was making up his mind on the wing. The U.S. government already had a refugee problem with the U.S. naval ships. The U.S.S Kirk Association We never got to the bottom of that, and frankly, we never pursued it. I had an assigned assembly point in the middle of Saigon, and I crammed about 15 people into a nine-person van and then drove through the streets of Saigon through various checkpoints down to the docks. And the first thing he said to me is "Young man, I'm not accustomed to strange civilians coming aboard my ship armed in the middle of the night." And uh…the two star general's nephew. And sure enough, about 10 o'clock in the morning, I believe, on the 29th, there was Bing Crosby on the airwaves. And Ambassador Martin wouldn't tolerate or countenance such thought. Miki Nguyen Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: Each gate was besieged like that, although the side gate was the principle place where they came. 180. But the timing of when it would be over wasn't really our timing, it was, frankly, what the North Vietnamese would tolerate. Jasmine Barnes So we fly in, I land on the roof exactly at 4:50 in the morning and I said, "I'm not leaving until the ambassador is onboard.". Slate: After 13 years of hard labor, he was released and made his way to America. Mike Sullivan: So, I got on my radio and I began saying "U.S. Navy, U.S. Navy, American embassy, request extraction immediate." But on the other hand, sometimes there are moments when good people have to rise to the occasion and do the things that need to be done. Lock ourselves in a room and then come out when the dust is settled and introduce ourselves to the North Vietnamese. Meaning, if they see us all leave at the same time, they'll panic. There's a lot of people, they try to get their money. But we complied. Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz, Translators And piles and piles of paper began coming out, and we began shredding. We thought that the USS Kirk would just going to be an observer to this whole thing when all of a sudden, on radar, we started seeing these little blips coming out from the shore. So, then we started an operation basically to get out the Americans and their Vietnamese dependents. Which he did, he got in a sedan, he didn't lack for guts. And we were just kinda sitting down around, looking at each other. Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: In order to get President Thieu and the South Vietnamese to go along with the Paris Agreement, President Nixon pulled out all the stops. Paul Jacobs, Commanding Officer, USS Kirk: They lowered their Vietnamese flag, people crying. Where heavy lift helicopters could come in. Our plan was to get them running even if they had only one working engine. So several of us went to the embassy. Susan Norget Terry McNamara Ambassador to South Vietnam (archival): Cease evacuation? Any souvenirs from the ambassador's office were taken away. Last Days in Vietnam. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance quickly crumbled. So, we sent over engineering, technical people to see what we could do to help them, and get em underway. Buddy Squires, A.S.C. They would put all the Vietnamese in groups, they would search them and if they had any weapons, all those weapons were thrown into the swimming pool. So, we asked, we in the White House, asked the Defense Department, how many South Vietnamese were left? The President commends the personnel of the Armed Forces who accomplished it, as well as Ambassador Graham Martin and the staff of his mission who served so well under difficult conditions. Walter Cronkite, CBS News (archival): Communist forces in South Vietnam, already solidly in control of 11 provinces, began working on yet another one today: Binh Dinh. I'm in America, I'm almost there. Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: A Vietnamese sailor immediately shot this guy and then order was restored. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Last Days In Vietnam opened in two theaters, scoring one of the highest-grossing documentary openers of 2014, a solid $30,450 and a $15,225 average. He was very hot under the collar, and Kean said, "You can't. But they were flying over top of us. They had to be brought in because we didn't have enough marines in the embassy security guard to secure the walls. Riz Soriano Joseph McBride, State Department Officer: You couldn't have gotten to the airfield if you wanted to. ET by THE DRAFT, a look at the history of the selective service system in America. And uh, we pushed his airplane over the side. David Schwab But where else are you gonna go? And that's when the Captain Herrington started speaking to us in Vietnamese. Stuart Herrington It was a grand party. Di tanah, tentara dan diplomat Amerika menghadapi dilema moral yang: apakah untuk mematuhi perintah Gedung Putih untuk mengevakuasi hanya warga AS. When are we gonna finish this?" What follows is a basic overview that extends back to Vietnam’s early history, and covers America’s involvement in the war in general. Gerald Berry, Marine Pilot: So the ambassador's on board. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its … LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM has been nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature. In the middle of the night, I just jump up and thought the helicopter come pick me up. I thought about how this really really was wrong. Last Days in Vietnam succeeds as a story of desperation and heroism. Mike Sullivan, Marine Embassy Guard: We left, by my watch at 7:58, Saigon time. 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