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Ngo Dinh Luyen First. Mr. Luyen, the first question is the issue of why Bao Dai chose your brother and how he chose him. Yes, to answer, policy, (because France desired assimilation), started out with very liberal ideas, if you like, right, eh? But that resulted in this, which is that in no country dominated, protected, or colonized by France were, wish, of what the Americans thought was indispensable. And it was this, I think, this was the [incomprehensible] of success, as much because one mis-estimated the importance, one ignored

` SR 2072 NGO THI HIEN Beep tone Roll 72 of Vietnam Project, March 3, 1981. Interview with Ngo Thi Hien, 80, Cam Ne. 540, Take 1 Clapstick I’d like the lady to tell me what life was like in the village immediately before August 1965 and what activities were going on in the village, was, was the resistance here or what? You speak to her. Tell her to look just at me. Please tell us what life was like in the village before 1965. 541 TAKE 1 Clapstick Please tell us what life

NGO THI TAN SR #2063 Interview with Ngo Thi Tan, woman who gave birth in Tunnel. Are we ready? How-- What was it like, ask her what was it like to live in the tunnels here? What was life like in the tunnel? It was because the Americans bombed our village that I had to live in the tunnel and gave birth to my son there. How long did they have to live here? How long did you live down there? I lived down there for two months continuously to give birth to my

SR 5 Beep tone Interview with Lt. Ngo Minh Khoi Beep tone Vietnam Project, Roll 5 Clapstick Please tell us your name and when you entered the army. My name is Ngo Minh Khoi. I entered the army in 1964, in July. Ah... in the year... ah... Before I lost my country I was a second lieutenant of the paratroop forces, of American troops was a mistake. The second question is what you thought of the administration of President Nguyen Van

SR 2097 MADAME NGO BA THANH Beep tone Roll 97 of Vietnam Project Interview with Madame Ngo Ba Thanh. 701 Take 1 Clapstick Could you tell me, please, peace for good. And we would like your idea on this." And I said that, "Well, my idea, you know, because we were discussing on and on for years, the more you go with the military... uh... solution, future, is committed as well as the honor of America. And the others were telling this... Thompson was telling me something which... I was smiling at the time... He was telling me that "You know

SR 2090 NGUYEN THI NGO 657, Take 1 Clapstick Interview with Nguyen Thi Ngo, village woman, 55. What were Diem's policies like? Diem was extremely brutal in his policies. He rounded the people up and relocated them. He expropriated and usurped our land. His scheme was to attack the people and press their heads down. And he wanted our people, . SR 2091 Beep tone Roll 91 of Vietnam project 660, Clapstick Interview with Nguyen Thi Ngo continues. What did you do that day when you heard the gunfire

SR 2087 NGUYEN THI SINH Beep tone Roll 87 of Vietnam Project. 635 TAKE 1 Clapstick Interview with Nguyen Thi Sinh, 50. Please tell us of the 1960 protests in which you demanded the return of your husband and children. And the reaction of the soldiers to your protests. In January 1960 there was an order for a general uprising. At night we sounded the drums and the gongs. During the day the women whose husbands and children were then forced to do corvée labor for the construction of the agroville went to the military post and demanded

SR 2086 NGUYEN THI CHIEM 2nd Slate 631 Take 1 Clapstick. Interview with Nguyen Thi Chiem. What was the protest like? And in 1966 when your house, husband I had to put up with all this just because he had gone to fetch a midwife for me, my outrage increased. If my children survived and grew up, they would certainly have been arrested and tortured. Ngo Dinh Diem would, putting themselves under enslavement. You did not know when you would get killed. Ngo Dinh Diem announced at the time that the life and death of the people were in his hands. Therefore, everybody was really afraid to live

SR 2034 NGUYEN THI DINH 311, take 1 interview with Nguyen Thi Dinh Clapstick Could you tell us your first understanding at the sight of the landlords, . SR 2035 Beep tone Roll 35 of Vietnam Project Interview with Nguyen Thi Dinh, former Deputy Supreme Commander of the NLF, continues. 312 Take 1 Clapstick Could, of Vietnam Project Nguyen Thi Dinh 316 Take 1 Clapstick Could you tell us about the first time you engaged in smuggling arms