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From: Dick Ellis
Date: July 28, 2015
Subject: May 1968: Bomb Explodes Near Saigon TV Station
Wow! I have never seen a story about the bomb. Here is proof there was some damage to the studio....and there was damage to my head also. I was in the TV studio working on the weather set when the bomb went off and all of the lighting grid came down with some of it on me! I use to be very smart but have never been the same since...
Dickie
[NB Dickie included two photos. Both of them are in his 2nd Slide Show, one of MSG Greenwood
in front of the building and the other showing the damage to the front entrance (#11).]
From: Mike McNally
Date: July 27, 2015
Subject: May 1968: Bomb Explodes Near Saigon TV Station
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From: Dick Ellis
Date: July 27, 2015
Subject: To Clarify AFVN Location; A Photo and Another Map
The taxi with the bomb on board went off next to the fence where it says "TV Station". He turned into the alleyway next to the fence, stopped and then took off running down the street. There was an old lady living in a home-made hut down that alley and she had a pig. We ran over to check on the old lady after the bomb and discovered the blown up pig....which we thought was her at first. It was a mess. Also, the leaves from the big trees out front covered our street about 4 or 5 inches (ankle) deep. When we went out to shoot photos...B. General Winet (sp?) Sidell, Director of PIO for MACV was walking down the street with about three body guards and a bunch of reporters lead by Joe C., kicking the leaves. The track at the bottom of the photo was filled with "campers" during and after Tet.....when their homes had been destroyed. They lived under the grandstands and on the track in tents for several months. A rocket also hit the street and wall of that track one day....right across from the Vietnamese TV station. What is the thing in the upper left of the photo? It looks like a swimming pool or tennis court with bleachers. I remember sitting up in a sand-bag bunker along that fence many nights when we received a sapper alert. They gave me an M-16 (which I had never seen before) so I sat in the bunker all night with a bag of hand grenades at my feet! We had some crazy times boys and girls!!!! Dickie
1968 Car Bombing of AFVN Saigon
July 2015
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