The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Peck speaks of working for the Australian media; the Tet offensive; media coverage and perspectives; rocket attacks on Saigon; personal experiences; dealing with fear and depression; journalists' motives in general.
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Simmons speaks of being based in Saigon; media coverage in g eneral; action with South Vietnamese forces; characteristics of the troops involved; bombing and blockade of Haiphong; his personal beliefs
Koch speaks of General Westmoreland; conditions in Saigon; other journalists in South Vietnam; his personal motives; attendance at the 'five o'clock follies' (United States military briefings to the p
Stone speaks of reporting for News Limited (the Daily Mirror and The Australian) May to August 1965 and for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) television program 'This Day Tonight' May 1970;
Carlton speaks of working for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC); political and media opinions; ABC and political directives; the 'enemy'; media effect on public opinion and course of the wa
Greenwood speaks of his two months in South Vietnam during 1966; the morale of the United States troops; his role as a journalist; the equipment he carried in the field; reporting on a war; the effect
Ferguson speaks of being based in Singapore with his wife and children; visiting Vietnam in 1964 as a roving correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC); experiences of Donald Simmo