Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with woman in street, 1981
- Transcript
Woman describes being trapped in the rubble of her former house
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WOMAN IN STREET
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Interview with some woman in the street
Interviewer:
Could you tell us what it was like during the bombing?
Woman in the street:
When the bombing came, six members of my family were buried alive at
the foot of the spiral staircase. The whole two storied building was
bombed down, only the foot of the spiral staircase remained.
Interviewer:
After you got out of the shelter did you go straight to the hospital or
did you witness the destruction?
Woman in the street:
I just went away...
Interviewer:
When the airplanes came, had the alert been sounded?
Woman in the street:
When the airplanes came, I did not hear any alert. The alert came only
after the first bombs were dropped. So six members of my family hid
under the foot of a spiral staircase. Everything collapsed around them,
except for the foot of the staircase. The six members of my family were
buried there until people came to dig us out...
Interviewer:
Where did you live? On the second floor?
Woman in the street:
Yes, on the second floor over there.
Interviewer:
Was your house large?
Woman in the street:
No, not too large. This is how big it was, you can see it for yourself.
We had enough room for four beds.
- Raw Footage
- Interview with woman in street, 1981
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-7h1dj58k69
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- Description
- Episode Description
- A woman describes the December, 1972 aerial bombings of Hanoi that came without alert, burying six family members alive at the foot of a spiral staircase.
- Date
- 1981-02-15
- Date
- 1981-02-15
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- Topics
- Global Affairs
- War and Conflict
- Subjects
- Urban warfare; Air raid shelters; Vietnam (Democratic Republic); Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, North Vietnamese; Bombing, Aerial--Vietnam; United States--History, Military--20th century; Building failures; Bombardment; Civilian war casualties; Civilians in war; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; War and family
- Rights
- Rights Note:1) No materials may be re-used without references to appearance releases and WGBH/UMass Boston contract. 2) It is the responsibility of a production to investigate and re-clear all rights before re-use in any project.,Rights:,Rights Credit:WGBH Educational Foundation,Rights Type:,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:WGBH Educational Foundation
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:02:42
- Credits
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Interviewee2: Woman in street
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 71b20eede36dba590fdbd4211d01f867545c1f3c (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:02:42:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with woman in street, 1981,” 1981-02-15, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 7, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-7h1dj58k69.
- MLA: “Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with woman in street, 1981.” 1981-02-15. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 7, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-7h1dj58k69>.
- APA: Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with woman in street, 1981. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-7h1dj58k69