WEBVTT - Chapter 8 – The Fall 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:10.680 My name is Trim, and this is Saigon, the story 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.120 of my family and of the country that shaped us. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.480 The United States will not stand by and allow any. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.000 Power, however great ape over another time. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:23.759 Or. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.360 That's brought all the news. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:38.760 And land a bat eighty batle eighty battle. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.440 That could be no peace without justice, and facn be. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.600 No justice without peace. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:56.560 Chapter eight. By the time Joseph and Naomi reached Saigon, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.440 the North Vietnamese Communist army all he had the city surrounded. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:06.479 Is this. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:08.679 Is this the house? 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:09.559 Yes? 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.120 I thought you said it was opulent, Well it was 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.240 once looks deserted. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:26.000 Well, let's hope someone's still here. Will you wait? 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.280 Yes, just wait, thanks, he won't be long. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.520 You Sin Chao. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.760 I'm looking for the Tran family. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.759 This is their home Earth, this used to be their 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:42.920 home American. 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:48.480 Yes, I'm Joseph Sherman. I'm looking for my granddaughter. Her 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.760 name is Trin. I wondered if anyone here had any 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:57.360 news of her. Is there anyone here from the Tran 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:58.120 family who I. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.280 Could talk to? No here now? No? 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:00.360 No? 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.640 Wait, wait wait wait, I have a photo? Yes, photo here, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:13.359 there you go. See do you know this girl? No here? Yeah, yes, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.120 but I thought someone might know something. No, but wait, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:27.919 I'm the America. No good tire, no luck. No, I 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.320 don't think it's their house anymore. I can't believe what's 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:31.880 happened to it. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.040 Well, that isn't how you described it. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.120 Monsieur Hue turn in his grave and he saw it 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.720 like this, plaster crumbling and the garden overgrown. This used 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.920 to be one of the grandest villas in the district. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:53.080 Oh, they're getting closer. You go, yes, go hotel first, 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:54.880 then the palace. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.120 You mean the presidential palace. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.679 Yes, the Press of Auburn invited big men swearing in ceremony. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.639 By six pm, he'll be the next president of South Vietnam. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.480 What's the point that gunfire? That's how close the North 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:10.720 Vietnamese forces are. 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.120 I agree, it's deck chairs on the Titanic, but they 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.000 still want to keep up appearances. I just have to 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.480 swing by the caravel and pick up Philip Who manu, cameraman? 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:22.120 What happened to Dar? 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:23.880 He took a bullet in his arm while he was 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.520 embedded with the South viet Army. They flew him out. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:43.040 It's like crop block British, I'm British, you spy no, no, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:49.040 no with press. Look look my card foreign press. Naomi Howell, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:04:02.960 British movie tone, Joseph Sherman, producer, Okay, thank you. Wow, 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.120 it's getting happier. Com Moon is so blow. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.920 That still sounds a fair way off. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:13.000 Not blow everyone fight them no good one second? 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:18.120 Better you leave, go home after the palace, hotel, caravel, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:35.239 then palace, then airport. Ten minutes then we'll be back. Okay, okay, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.240 pack what you can, Joseph, I'll be I'll be down 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:38.800 in a set. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.080 Naomi, listen, I can't go tonight. Jer I came back 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:42.680 to find Trin. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.039 You've tried. No one could tell us which unit she's with. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:51.040 None of her family is still here. Just just pack up. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.200 I have to go talk to the concierge. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:02.240 I'll be down in a minute. Ah, mister Trunk, good evening, Sherman. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:02.599 Good evening. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:04.719 Are there any messages. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:05.200 But your granddaughter? 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.960 Yes, I'm afraid not, Monsieur, nothing at all. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.920 Sadly, my usual sources cannot help. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:13.279 Whoever. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.520 Guyan Tuk the obaman on the terrace, he was looking 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:18.480 for you a little earlier. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:24.960 Why okay, thank you, Mercy. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.440 Duke Monsieur Joseph my best customer. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.560 My Tini later and no time. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:35.680 I don't know. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.599 Mister Trunk said you were looking for me? 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.039 Yes, well he told me. You've been trying to find 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.960 your granddaughter te Trin. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.800 Yes, what do you know? 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.920 Please, Well, some of my contacts are a little closer 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.800 to our comrades from the north than mister Trunk's contacts. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.320 So and what did they say? 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.640 They said, first of all, asking questions about now is 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:01.719 a costly business? 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:09.000 Yes, okay, how about you? Yes? 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.880 Unfortunately things have become very expensive in Saigon. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:21.360 All right, all right, Ah, what did they say? 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.600 They said, she is with the infiltration ninth Brigade, who 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.440 are advancing from the northwest. But she is in trouble. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:33.239 What sort of trouble? 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.800 Well, the North Vietnamese Army were under orders to kill 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.240 any villagers who didn't join the Communist Party as they 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.599 moved south, but she refused to do that. Normally, refusing 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.960 a direct order would mean a death sentence for her too. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.880 But then she's related to trans Van Kim and Comrade 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.240 trans Van Kim is one of the heroes of the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.880 communist movement, so she's under arrest until they get to Saigon, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.720 and Kim can decide what to do with her. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.800 Kim We Kim is still alive. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:07.800 That's what they say. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:08.839 Where is he? 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.160 Is he still in prison at it? Did he escape? 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.440 Did they get him out? 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.000 It'll take a lot more than four hundred dollars to 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:20.000 find trans Van Kim, mister Sherman, of course. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.280 Well you've been very helpful. Thank you, Tuck. I hope 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:25.800 you'll be okay when Saigon. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.960 Falls luckily comunist. Enjoy a drink too, mister Sherman. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:30.560 Yeah, I'm coming. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.000 Someone will have to keep running the bar. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.200 Well, make sure it's you, my friend. You make the 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:36.400 best martinis in town. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:39.600 Hi. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.440 Are you ready? This is Philip Hi Hi? 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.119 Yeah, Naomi, Nomi. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.520 I just heard about trind She's been arrested what she 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.720 wouldn't follow orders, So they're going to hand her over 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.520 to Transvent Kim Ho Chi Minh's former deputy. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.040 Her fate is in his hands. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.600 Okay, okay, So where's Tranvan Kim? 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:03.360 I don't know. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.800 I actually saw him. Yeah, back in sixty eight. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.480 He'd been captured by the American army, but they left 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:09.240 two years ago. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.200 Well, they probably gave him to the South Vietnamese Army 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.720 and all their top brass are going to be at 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:26.520 the palace. Oh, come on, come on, are you getting this, Philip. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.920 Even with the South Vietnamese government on the brink of collapse, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.760 a new president was being sworn in as though it 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:41.240 was still a proud democracy. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.599 In an acceptance speech of delusional Grandeur, General Min is 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.520 promising that as president he will be able to force 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.080 a negotiated ceasefire with an enemy who has in fact 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.439 already overtaken the entire country and is advancing through the 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.160 outskirts of Saigon block by block. Even as we speak, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.560 the French and American diplomatic missions are about to pull out, 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.400 and the fate of the South Vietnamese people is in 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:13.119 the balance. Naomi Howell movie turn news. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.760 Cut, Well, perfect, let's pack up. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:21.719 How long should we give him? 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.959 Do you think, big men? Six at most. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:27.040 Six months? 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:33.120 No days, six days, Joseph, how'd you go? 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:34.240 Well? 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.360 I spoke to the chief of staff, but they've got 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:37.800 no idea, none at all. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.040 Where's Tran Van Kim? 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.840 I asked, and he just shrugged and said they've completely 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.120 lost track of him. So he might have escaped, he 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.640 might have been freed, or he could to be locked 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.840 up somewhere. No one knows, so all we can do 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.160 is try the main garrison. Now what, No, we don't 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.480 have to the command barracks. Maybe someone down the line 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:57.800 knows more than the generals. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.120 If we knew where to go, that would be one thing. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.600 But we can't just wander around and look. And I've 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.280 got to get Philip out. I don't want to get 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:06.360 another cameraman shot. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:06.560 Look. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.680 I gotta tell you what. Let's go to the airport first, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.640 get Flip onto a plane with all the footage, and 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.400 then we'll we'll figure out what to do. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.200 Minutes later, they were on their way to the airport, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.480 but they'd barely driven a few miles when things started 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:28.160 to go wrong. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:32.199 The brows block. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.040 It's like they're checking every car. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:48.239 Is there any other way there? No press, foreign journalists. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.320 We're going to the airport. An everyone go back. We 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.760 have to get to the airport. No more black shots. Close, Finny, 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:58.079 no plane. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:58.840 White hose? 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.320 Alight, I don't draw. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:03.199 Where go? 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.160 I don't know where? Where can we go to the hotel? 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:09.200 No? 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:09.520 Wait? 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:17.520 Turn on the radio, Yes, find radio Vietnam. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:23.679 That was it? Did you hear that they're playing White Christmas. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.840 White's Christmas boy, it's the US Embassy's. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.160 It means an evacuation center. Way. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:36.160 Hey, we've got to get to the American embassy. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:39.120 How much further? 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:40.800 God? 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:41.040 What? 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:42.559 Who are? 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:43.080 Who is? 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:43.600 People? 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.080 I stopped you? 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.160 No, no, don't. We'll give you ten thousand doll if 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.280 you get us to the embassy. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:55.000 Look everything block I have, you'll walk legle home. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:00.000 No, wait, Naomi, it's hopeless. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.120 Leave our stuff in the car. Get to the embassy. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:09.000 Okay, Philip, Yes, got the footage, of course. Okay, come 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.480 on and bring the camera. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.120 Come on, gotta hurry, come on. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.280 It took them another hour to get to the gates 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.520 of the embassy on foot. It seems like all of 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.959 Saigon was on the streets, desperate to get out before 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:27.800 the city fell to the advancing Communist forces. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:35.280 Said stay, sergeant, sergeant, tell you the press. Joseph Sherman 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:41.200 and Naomi Howe rinsed media. A cameraman the lad Yes, yes, from. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:47.120 The Okay, inside, you're presuering shuttle flights to an offshore 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:48.559 carrier lines over there. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.280 Yeah, got it, thank you. I'm going to get these 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:51.760 on the field. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.240 I'll joge camera, Josie, where you going? 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.440 Go ahead? With your peace. I'll be back. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.680 I need to find someone who Mike Cia guy, he'll 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:02.560 definitely be here. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:11.760 Everything's gotta go, like everything everything said to k Files 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:12.160 you got it? 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:12.600 Got it? 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.480 Mike? Is this what sure? 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.200 Joseph Sherman, Good lord? 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.600 When did you get back a few days ago? What 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.679 the hell for my granddaughter? She asked me to come 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.160 get her and I don't know where she is. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.600 Well you won't find her. Now, get back out there 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.880 and get on one of the choppers. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.040 She may be with Kim wherever he is. Do you 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.200 know where Kim is? Kim tran fan Ki, Yes. 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:39.760 Yes, the man in the White Room. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.240 You asked me to talk to him, remember, yeah, I remember? 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.160 Where is he? 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.360 I don't know. We handed him over to the administration 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.559 when the army pulled out two years ago. They let 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:51.920 him go, is what I heard? 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.559 Let him go? Yeah? 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.120 His guards were either bought off or they've been double 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.520 agents all along, who knows. Anyway, they just unlocked the 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:00.839 door and he walked. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:01.560 Out and went where. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:02.120 I don't know. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.760 Bullshit, I don't. Actually, there's been a bit going on. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.559 In case you haven't realized. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.920 Your CIA, Mike. You get reports from all over the place. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:11.320 I can't read them all. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.040 Well, do you file them? 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.920 The files are being shredded. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:15.800 That's what we're doing. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.200 Now, what's trans ven Kim filed under t for tren. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:25.640 Okay, hang on, given ten years of my life to 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.400 this shithole. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:27.480 It's all up in smoke. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:28.280 I'm a mess. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.640 I know, Mike, all. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:36.240 Right, if you really want to risk your life. It's unsubstantiated. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.880 But there's talk of a safe house just across the 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:45.360 Newport Bridge. He might be using that as a base. Thanks, Mike, Yeah, 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.600 good luck, buddy. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.920 Joseph Naomi, he's at Newport Bridge, I have to that's 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.080 where they'll be taking Trend. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:58.640 You stay here, Joseph. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.880 This is insane. You don't know that. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.080 Hey, I'll see you. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.440 I'll see you back at the Foreign Correspondence Bar in London. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.000 Have that Martini waiting? 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:09.720 Then? 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.480 Can you open the gate? Corporal? Are you sure he 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.080 opened the gate? The last chopper flight goes in three hours. Yes, 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.360 there'll be no one here after that, I know. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:25.720 Okay, everyone excuse me? 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:54.280 Oh stop, no, no, no weapons. I'm a journalist, you american, American? Yes, 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.560 I'm a friend, not uh not army. Yes, yes, yes, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.560 there's someone I need to see a comrade. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.960 I want to get to Newport Bridge. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:05.880 What comrade? 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.800 His name is tran Van Kim, Comrade Kim. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.840 I need to meet him. It's important that I see him. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.040 I just, I just, I just want to get to 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:15.600 Newport Bridge. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:16.280 Why that bridge? 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.280 Because that's where, because that's where he'll be. Can I 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.480 just keep walking? Why don't follow me? If you want to, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.520 I don't care. Just let me go right listen American. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.760 Joseph didn't know how long he was unconscious for, but 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.760 when he awoke, he was blindfolded and his hands were 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.000 tied behind his back. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.240 Way name you American? Come now? 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:52.440 Now, come. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:55.720 Night? 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.240 So American? 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:04.600 Where am I. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:08.480 Now? 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.080 We shoot you? 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:12.719 No? 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:13.960 No, no, no, no, don't. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:24.720 No. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.320 How does it feel thinking you could die in the 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:42.840 next few seconds? Him and tie him? Good Joseph, Hello Joseph, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:44.440 it's been a while. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.639 I'm so glad to see you, and the feeling is 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:52.360 mutual one of me. In fact, your timing is excellent. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.040 I think you should come with me, please. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:56.520 Hob in. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.800 Where are we going through the Presidential Palace? 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.520 Most of our brigades are matching there and now they're 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:23.360 facing almost no resistance. I'd be watching there, but I'm 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.720 not as fit as I used to be. Eight years 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.639 of captivity will do that to you. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.840 Where is she king? You must know I am here. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.000 Can you at least tell me she's safe? 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.800 Do you know what I miss most about those youthful 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.119 days of being fit, Joseph. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:54.920 Not my balls, no, or the girls. I missed tennis. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.720 I loved that game, but I never played again after 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.200 be that Frenchman in the Sagon Championship. 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.960 It was a great match, Yes, it was something. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.679 The one time I met Trim years ago now, I 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.840 told her about that game and how wonderfully you play well. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:32.800 Some days stay with us forever. That was one such day, 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:50.840 and this will be another. You're a reporter, Joseph and 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.479 a famous prize winning author. I'm told you should witness this. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.960 It will be in his zoric moment. Trust me. 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.520 Inside, Comrade Kim was greeted by a large gathering of 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.160 North Vietnamese Army. 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.480 Commanders dun da but no. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:22.280 Together they all headed to the main hall where President 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.520 big Men was holding his first cabinet meeting, which he 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.840 now knew would also be his last. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:44.720 Ah Sagan, the revolution has arrived. Welcome, gentlemen, We have 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.920 been waiting for you to transfer power into your hands. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:56.440 I'm afraid there's no question of you transferring power. General mean, you. 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.919 Cannot give up what you do not have. Your power 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.200 is completely dissolved. You can only hand over your unconditional surrender. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.440 The Communist Party of North Vietnam is now the government 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:15.520 of all Vietnam. General Ming, we have prepared a speech 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:17.399 for you to read on national radio. 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:26.240 Yes, of course, arrest them all. What don't lie, heck 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:40.240 Ming to the radio station. Some things really are worth 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.080 a lifetime of struggle. I do not, Joseph. 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.040 And as for you, this is for forty years, this 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.800 is for our friendship, This is for my sister Lane. 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.160 What do you mean lorgji. 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.639 Han Lo Chifang dong da America? 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:00.400 What wait? 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:00.560 What? 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:01.520 What's what's going on? 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:03.520 Joe? 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:04.320 With the comrades. 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:07.800 They will take you to your granddaughter and get you 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.600 to the American embassy in time for the last helicopter. 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:16.760 Thank you, Kim. I don't know how to think, Joe. 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:18.919 Now go. 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.760 Joseph and don't come back. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:41.200 Boy Kin Wing sa I you know. General Yuanan, President 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:46.600 of the Slagon Administration, appeal to the armed forces of 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:50.560 the Republic of Vietnam, lay down their arms, you know, 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:54.879 surrender unconditionally, beautifulces. 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:54.880 Of the Liberation. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.720 On the thirtieth of April nineteen seventy five, after decades 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:15.800 of pain and misery, Vietnam was finally free and Joseph 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:19.560 and me were on that last flight out. I finally 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:25.680 reached American territory and my grandfather had returned home. He 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:30.520 died fifteen years later holding my hand. 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:43.159 Now, wake up, San Francisco. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.240 It took years for Vietnam to change, but it is 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:52.399 now a peaceful and prosperous country. I returned for the 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:56.800 first time at the age of sixty seven. My children 0:23:56.840 --> 0:24:00.640 took me back in their own kids, my grandchildren. 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:06.760 And this is the Gucci comes like turnal system. Lady 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:11.440 and gentlemen used by the underground become fighters. If they 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:14.960 need to escape, they could jump down here and see sy. 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:16.640 Look the whole right there. 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.639 It's a way down there, that's over here. Let's move on, 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:21.600 Lady and gentlemen. 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:22.400 Right here. 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:27.040 The American had a special cop of men. They got that. 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:35.439 Okay, Mom, I'm okay. I still feel young, but I 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:36.520 guess I'm not anymore. 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:44.200 Mom, Okay, just remembering just Remember. 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:03.880 Your Clothes Captain fiber One Alpa post. 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:07.760 Copy by by One Alpha All Claire. 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:11.800 Are you happy, Trin? 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:14.640 Yes? 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:16.640 Mecho. 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:31.560 Saigon is a production of Thoroughbred Studios, gold Hog Productions 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:35.840 and iHeart Podcasts starring Kelly Marie Trann and Rob Benedict. 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:39.359 Based on the best selling novel Cigon by Anthony Gray. 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.560 It is created for audio by Greg Hadrick and Jeremy Fox, 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:46.159 written by Greg Hadrick and directed by John Scott Dryden. 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:51.000 Original music is by Sasha Putnam, with additional performances by 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:54.960 Normgnir and Lettipic Cheer. 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