Take you for coming out tonight. I was living and turkey during the vietnam war while my dad worked for Armed Forces Radio he remembers but for our generation it is a reflection of steady of words and images captured by those of the planet. Over that period of cbs of war the ap 1 6 Pulitzer Prizes for the stories to break the news photography. Some of the greatest names of correspondents. Just a few the coverage has more than 25,000 images and at the 50th anniversary the first ever collection is put together of the conflict of the ship of. This book is a collection of 300 of the images and we are thrilled to have some of the correspondence geordie to us as well as photographers here have covered water dave more. We have peter arnett. [applause] and with the ap 30 years to Julie Jacobson and. [applause] and avid photographer covering pretty much everything. Embedded buildable times with forces and Santiago Lyon irresponsible for the global reporting and a photo editors world wide to produce it. A huge nick ut boarded vietnams. [applause] joint ap in saigon at the age of 14 after his brother was killed covering some of war. He is known for its the iconic photo brad the naked badly burned from the misdirected air raid and had won a pulitzer prize. And impressive panel of journalists that are collected in and some small parts in of this book please give a warm welcome of the to the photographers of the Associated Press. [applause] we will run through some pictures that we will open it up [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [silence] [applause] clearly a at extraordinary selection on the of war in end vietnam which is why we are gathered here this evening. Is eric thought it be be useful to put this work into context with the history of the Associated Press notforprofit cooperative News Organization and did 1846 during the mexicanamerican war as a way for newspapers to share the cost and logistics of coverage of the conflict has cover just about every conflict known to man and so we have longstanding relationship to the conflict around the world. The mood by 1500 u. S. Newspaper ampules resources together for access to the content to provide a news agency that is of paralleled of school full reach of just about every country you could name with a never ending stream of photographs at taxpayer of video and audio so in the institution of our journalism because of the commitment that a p bade to cover that story youd the dedication and of the journalists that were assigned to middies stayed there the way journalists are typically assigned and you were between six weeks or to balance they would stay for ready years end as a result there would use that knowledge of what was blonde in the country country, who the players were, how to access and coupled with an extraordinary dynamic that existed that facilitated access us probably has not been see the and warfare and quite possibly not to be seated and the journalist could show up at a military base and to be up five it to of the helicopter if the airplane was willing to they could jump on the helicopter pad go where the action was a of photographs that come back and a dropoff the film and go back to the next day if they felt up to it. That level of access is very different from today possibly because the flow of information is so much faster in and lewdness and how the band era was that the antiagainst try to control the decoration and a much more direct agent to mandate way where in the vietnam era it was quite a different day dick. I thought i would start a brief conversation with a panelist before we have questions reid has ben ward the questions will be robust and animated a huge good so we are counting eight line you for that. [laughter] but i thought i was a kick in it off to ask if they have a particular photograph of the book, perhaps one we have seen projected or not if they bled like to talk to it to because that meant something to them personally but i thought i would start with mr. Arnett. Stake you very blanch santiago. My daughter lives in berkeley soluble visitor to this area i will be back given this bookstore baghdad. I spent a lot of time in vietnams ally with their ad age 26 he and i stayed for nine years living there there, barry darr, the two children there and kept go redacted tell of fall of saigon until the communist takeover in this sounds crazy but the era that i started to be a journalist was not uncommon for american correspondents to be away from home over three years to be based and to travel ruled by ships of the 1950s so this era you have to seek a period of time. The pictures that were taken in vietnam were simple film processed and sent by radio photo sometimes you just said one picture event you just dont have the kind of facilities available that is available today. But but with the u. S. Tradition of more coverage of the military and u. S. Government of what appears of magazines a huge radio Ad Television and. As the experience began the u. S. Government may did their job to lobby intensely to shape the a country out of vietnam