Comments on: Don North: An American Reporter Witnessed the VC Assault on the U.S. Embassy During the Vietnam War http://www.historynet.com/don-north-an-american-reporter-witnessed-the-vc-assault-on-the-us-embassy-during-the-vietnam-war.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Fri, 24 May 2013 06:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nancy Boutwell http://www.historynet.com/don-north-an-american-reporter-witnessed-the-vc-assault-on-the-us-embassy-during-the-vietnam-war.htm#comment-127292 Nancy Boutwell Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:57:13 +0000 #comment-127292 Is there a way to contact Don North? He mentions an MP that was carrying a wounded Viet Cong. The MP was my friend. Don said he interviewed him at the gate of the US Embassey. My friend was later killed that day, a ways from the US Embassey. I know who he was talking about because there was a picture of him carrying the wounded man in Life Magazine. The audo tape he made would be such a gift to his family after 40 and 3/4 years. Thank you Nancy Boutwell nboutwell@vicr.com 10-02-2009 Is there a way to contact Don North? He mentions an MP that was carrying a wounded Viet Cong. The MP was my friend. Don said he interviewed him at the gate of the US Embassey. My friend was later killed that day, a ways from the US Embassey. I know who he was talking about because there was a picture of him carrying the wounded man in Life Magazine. The audo tape he made would be such a gift to his family after 40 and 3/4 years.

Thank you
Nancy Boutwell
nboutwell@vicr.com 10-02-2009

]]> By: Rick Nagg http://www.historynet.com/don-north-an-american-reporter-witnessed-the-vc-assault-on-the-us-embassy-during-the-vietnam-war.htm#comment-42253 Rick Nagg Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:20:08 +0000 #comment-42253 The author often cites public opinion poles. Poles of a public who cannot actually be on the ground at the war making their own evaluations. We have to assume the public's opinions are formed in large part, by how events are reported to them by people such as himself and his editors. This leaves the public susceptable to how a relatively few people interpert those events. People like the author, who also mentions several times his distrust of military information particularly from Westmoreland. I suspect that renders him unable to report without bias. The author often cites public opinion poles. Poles of a public who cannot actually be on the ground at the war making their own evaluations. We have to assume the public's opinions are formed in large part, by how events are reported to them by people such as himself and his editors. This leaves the public susceptable to how a relatively few people interpert those events. People like the author, who also mentions several times his distrust of military information particularly from Westmoreland. I suspect that renders him unable to report without bias.

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