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Interview with Tran Van Don

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5/7/1981 SR 2410 Tran Van Don Sound roll 1. Marker. 573. Clapstick. When I was in... Just a minute, we’re out of film. Yes. Excuse me. Camera roll 422. Sound 2411. This Tran Van Don interview, Vietnam Project T-883 on the 7th of May. Slate 580. Rolling, marker 580. Clapsticks, naturalized French – who served in the French army. It was my brother-in-law Le Van Kim and myself. We were in the French commando squad. When he learned that, General Leclerc himself gave the order to immediately remove us from the French combat units and give us other positions
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As a former general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Tran Van Don was pivotal to the toppling of Ngo Dinh Diem during the 1963 coup d'etat. Here he recalls life under French colonialism, the rule of Bao Dai, and his relationship with Ngo Dinh Diem - leading to the coup d'etat and death of Diem.
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05/07/1981
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Vietnam: A Television History / America's Mandarin (1954 - 1967)

Tran Van Don with Vice Premier Nguyen Luu Vien; Saigon.

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December 13, 1966
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General Tran van Don delivering funeral address. Don was leader of association of southern elites; Saigon.

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December 13, 1966
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Tran van Don and Reverend Ho van Vuoi; Saigon.

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December 13, 1966
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Interview with Don Luce

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VIETNAM DON LUCE Don Luce reading a letter written to him by a Vietnamese person during the time of the struggle movement. This is audio only, filmed material picks up after this, to be still in jail. It don't pose before you a terrible problem to choose, I can't keep quietly. I can't have a peaceful mind in these days. I can't become a mercenary in this kind of puppet army. Americans in uniform are not my friends at all. They are just foreign troops in my, . This is film roll 706. Ok, Don, let's go ahead with the aah Predicament, just looking at me. Well, the students were angry, Uhm, I taught at the College of Agriculture and my
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Don Luce worked in Vietnam with the International Voluntary Services and the World Council of Churches from 1958 until 1971. Don Luce was, at the time, teaching at the College of Agriculture and his students were having to choose whether or not to join the Saigon army. Many of his students were very angry seeing foreigners invade their country and Vietnamese women being forced into prostitution. Students were being imprisoned and beaten for not joining the Saigon army... more
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Tran Van Van.

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Premier Tran Van Huong.

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Tran Van Huong Reviews Troops

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Tran Van Huong reviews troops, makes speech to Senate. Cutaways at Senate session. Good establishing shot Senate. (54') Duong Minh Kinh, "Only way for Big Minh to come to power through coup d'etat." Kinh interview interesting.
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04/26/1975
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Vietnam: A Television History / End of the Tunnel, The (1973 - 1975)

Vietnam Premier Tran Van Huong.

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Vietnam Premier Tran Van Huong.

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