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The 19 of the small residents of the embassies mission coordinator George Jacobs said we've been hiding out all alone all morning. What could you see from your window where they where they see in the buildings. No I did not see any VC in the building except that I knew that there was at least one VC in my house. I knew that he was on the bottom floor of my house. You had quite an escape at the very end. How did that happen. Well they put riot gas into the bottom floors of my house which of course would drive who ever was down below up top where I was. They had thrown me a pistol about 10 minutes before this occurred and with all the locks that Ive had all of my life. I got him before he got me with them to dollar and he had one an M-16 and your gun.
Series
Vietnam: A Television History
Raw Footage
Saigon Under Fire
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-gm81j97g6q
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Description
Colonel Jacobson interviewed on the Vietcong who got into his building in the Embassy compound. In cue: "No I did not see any Vietcong in the building..." Out cue: "I got him before he got me." Source is CBS Special Report "Saigon Under Fire" aired 1/31/68.
Date
1968-01-31
Date
1968-01-31
Asset type
Raw Footage
Topics
Global Affairs
War and Conflict
Subjects
Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam); Guerrilla warfare; Tet Offensive, 1968; Urban warfare
Rights
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Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:00:54
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Credits
Distributor: CBS News
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: cbf8b6b6a94c5f11088812f81f4dbe91c8310aab (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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Citations
Chicago: “Vietnam: A Television History; Saigon Under Fire,” 1968-01-31, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 3, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-gm81j97g6q.
MLA: “Vietnam: A Television History; Saigon Under Fire.” 1968-01-31. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 3, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-gm81j97g6q>.
APA: Vietnam: A Television History; Saigon Under Fire. 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-gm81j97g6q