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This could save lives. It is not every day you get an email from a 15yearold that comes with a detailed protocol with lets see what else, lets see where this goes. Stahl it is the story that has never been told. There were 105 in all, john riordon risking his own life, rescued in the last days of the vietnam war. Even now, four decades later, when they see him, you know, they know he is the reason they are alive. Thank you. Stahl and they call him papa. How many grandchildren do you have . I keep using the number 105. But the grandchildren, dont ask me. Im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. Im morley safer. Im bob simon. Im lara logan. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. We went out and asked people a simple question how old is the oldest person youve known . We gave people a sticker and had them show us. We learned a lot of us have known someone whos lived well into their 90s. And thats a great thing. 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The bankruptcy filing just confirms what residents had known for years the city that was once an Industrial Capital of america had hit rock bottom. But there are those who believe that youve got to get there before you can rise again, before you can reinvent yourself. But we begin with what an American City looks like when it has gone bankrupt. It looks like it has lost a war. It could be dresden after the allied bombing. Factories, stores, schools left to rot. Houses gutted by fire. Streets abandoned, derelict, populated by crime. It turns dark after dusk because 40 of the street lights dont work. The buses dont run on time. The cops dont come in time, if they come at all theyre understaffed. And if your house is burning, even when firemen get there, they might not have what it takes to do much about it. Detroit has long been a playground for arsonists, yet during a decade of massive budget deficits, the city has lost a third of its cops, a third of its firefighters. Fire companies have been shut down. Equipment that has broken down doesnt always get fixed. The firefighters at ladder 22 told us everything on their rig is in pretty good shape everything, that is, except the tank thats supposed to hold their water. Jonathan frendewey told us its leaking. Now, how long have you had this leak . Jonathan frendewey the leaks been going on for. Probably a year weve been reporting it. Within the last six months, we stopped filling the tank because its leaking so bad that, by the time we get somewhere, were out of water anyway. Simon which happened recently when frendewey and Jeremy Mullins responded to a car fire. Jeremy mullins when we got to that car fire, the only option we had to stop this car from spreading to the house was a garden hose, was the neighbors garden hose. Problem is. Is that thats just not adequate. That car fire turned into a house fire. It spread up the wall and into the house. Simon so the occupants were out there watching their house burn down . Frendewey yeah. Mullins i dont know why there arent people banging down city hall right now, saying, why is my firehouse closed . Why is this firehouse closed . Simon theyre resigned to it. They just. . Mullins i believe that people in the city have lived with it this way for so long that maybe they dont understand that this isnt how its supposed to be. Simon schools are supposed to be safe places, but this one is abandoned, and camille rhymes says it has become a safe house for criminals. She lives across the street with her children, and wasnt surprised when, after spotting intruders in her yard and calling the cops, she waited. And called again. And waited. And how long is it between your first call and the cops arrival here . Camille rhymes anywhere between two and three hours. Simon you say that very calmly as if. Rhymes i mean, because thats normal. Ive called the cops and it took them up to six hours to come. So, i think if you not screaming that you dying and somebody killing you right then and there, they not going to rush to get to you. Simon and even if they did, detroit is huge 139 square miles, enough space to contain boston, San Francisco and manhattan. Some 80,000 buildings abandoned. But drive a few minutes from the desolation, and youre in another city, another world. Clean streets, classy architecture, nice places to grab lunch, an oasis of activity hardly what comes to mind when you think bankruptcy. This is downtown detroit, and its renaissance is largely due to one man. You look out the window, it looks pretty good. Dan gilbert yeah, its not what bankruptcy looks like, huh . Simon that man is dan gilbert, born in detroit, and the founder and chairman of quicken loans, the Third Largest mortgage provider in the country. It made him a fortune. Hes invested more than a billion dollars here, buying and renovating buildings in the citys central core. Which of the buildings were looking at are yours . Gilbert the First National building over here is ours. The chase building. And then, the one there near the river, one woodward. Simon he got them at what he calls a skyscraper sale. What did you pay for them . Gilbert not a lot. laughs not a lot. Simon have any numbers . Gilbert you know, we paid for a lot of these Office Buildings less than what you would pay for one years rent per foot in new york city. Simon are you doing whats good for detroit or whats good for you . Gilbert i know that sometimes theres hollywood movies that, you know, describe every investor and profitmaking capitalist as somebody very greedy. But in our case, i think its doing well by doing good. And i think that fits very nicely together. Simon some think of him as doing for detroit what carnegie did for pittsburgh, what rockefeller did for new york. Dan gilbert is the second largest private landowner here, behind only general motors. But its not land that is in short supply; its people. The city has lost nearly two thirds of its population more than a million residents, most of them white over the last 60 years. cheering so, three years ago, gilbert moved his companys headquarters from the suburbs to downtown. Gilbert welcome to detroit, everybody simon he has filled his buildings with more than 10,000 of his own employees, offers them subsidies to live here, sometimes even a ride to work. And to make them feel safe in a place with the highest Violent Crime rate of any major city in the country, he set up this security command center, which monitors some 300 cameras looking downtown. Gilbert whenever were engaged, we want to make sure our people we have 10,00 of them down here are safe and sound. Simon so far, gilbert has managed to lure more than 90 companies here, including chrysler, which never had an Office Downtown before. Now, he wants to build a tech town on the ruins of what was once motor city. This old theater was abandoned for 25 years. Twitter now has an office here, as do more than 20 internet startups that have all gotten seed money from gilbert. Whats the pitch you give to companies to move here and for people to move here . Gilbert you can impact the outcome in detroit. And that sells. Its crazy, but it sells. Here, you can actually see what you do affect a great American City, and its hopefully historical comeback. Simon you walk around downtown, you see what youve renovated, and one becomes optimistic. But the border comes very suddenly, doesnt it. . Gilbert mmhmm. Simon . Between downtown, which is looking good, and the rest of detroit. Gilbert theres no big city in the world that i can think of that has strong neighborhoods and a weak downtown. But theres no doubt that, absolutely, the challenge of detroit is to, you know, have our neighborhoods come back. Simon there are neighborhoods here that are doing okay, but in vast parts of this vast city, people say they havent seen much change, though not everyone has surrendered. John george drove us around the neighborhood where he was born. Brightmoor used to house the american dream. Auto workers bought homes here, joined the middle class. Today, people use parts of it as a dumping ground, literally. It says here, dumpers will be shot. John george people should not feel safe coming into someones neighborhood and dumping their trash. Simon i dont mean to get hyperbolic, but this street is as bad as any street ive seen in the united states. George well, of course. If all of this would have happened overnight, youd see fema here, the president , helicopters flying over. But because it took 50 years, theres no urgency. Its talking about your mama simon which is why john george isnt waiting for the government to save his neighborhood. For 25 years, he has been commanding his own cavalry of volunteers to do the job the city hasnt been able to do tear down those houses, remove all that blight. George blight is a very cunning adversary. You. You eliminate it here, and it pops up over there and it kills everything. So youre constantly battling that enemy. Simon hes one of many activists doing this. And with help from corporations, including dan gilberts, he has managed to demolish 300 houses. Look at what it takes to tear down just one. Rough estimate, how many are left to work on . George only 80,000. Simon do you ever feel overwhelmed . George every day. Simon but what do you do with all that land once the houses are gone . Detroit has become an urban jungle in a unique way. Paul weertz used to be a Public School teacher. Now, hes a farmer, right in the middle of the city, cultivating acre after acre of abandoned lots. There used to be ten houses here; now, theres kale. Paul weertz eggplant, tomatoes, lots of vegetables. Potatoes and garlic you cant see, theyre underground. Simon and not just for family consumption. This movement, urban farming, is growing as a commercial venture. Everything is for sale. If detroit is, in fact, moving slowly uphill, do you think what youre doing, this movement, is part of it . Weertz yes, yes, i think its going to be the citizens that change it, a little at a time. And i think were doing that. Simon but a little at a time just wont cut it when youve got a debt of 18. 5 billion. Earlier this year, the governor of michigan declared a financial emergency and appointed bankruptcy attorney kevyn orr to take over detroit. Hes been given 18 months to figure out how to repair the damage caused by more than 50 years of plummeting tax revenues, spending sprees, borrowing binges, and corruption. Orr is looking for ways to free up more than a billion dollars to restore basic services that have been missing for so long. Kevyn orr were getting at some of the issues already. We have a new Lighting Authority stood up. The new police chief is getting at some much needed reform over at the police department. Simon a better Fire Department . Orr all those issues in Public Safety police, fire, e. M. S. When i leave, i think those issues are going to be in place. Simon okay, now, these things are, for you, more important than the numbers. Orr no. Theyre all equally important, because if i dont get the Balance Sheet issues resolved, i cant do anything else. Simon but balancing the books will include Cutting Health care and pension costs, which make up much of detroits debt. If orrs declaration of bankruptcy is approved by a federal judge, it will allow detroit to pay only a fraction of what it owes to bondholders who lent it billions, and to City Employees and retirees counting on their pensions. What do you tell a pensioner whos making 20,000 a year that he might make less . Orr im sorry. This is unfortunate. I recognize how severe it is. You know, i come from pretty common stock. I, by no means, am insensitive to the human cost, but we dont have a choice. These choices have been made for us a long time ago. Simon the dispute over who gets hit and how hard has moved into the unlikeliest of places, the Detroit Institute of arts. The museums director, graham beal, showed us around. Graham beal the whole collection is owned by the city. Simon when kevyn orr hired christies auction house to appraise the collection, it created a frenzy about whether he might sell some of detroits treasures to help pay the bills. What would the matisse go for . Beal i really dont know. 70 million, 80 million, Something Like that. I leave that to the experts. Simon but what do you sacrifice first, a pension or a painting . Dont you think it would be a very nice symbolic sign to people in the neighborhoods if you sold off a few very valuable paintings . Orr im really not interested so much in symbolism. Im interested in what makes sense, both now and in the legacy. You know, new york didnt have to turn central park into condos. A number of different cities, when they went through this process, you dont have to sell off your, you know, grandmothers china and your wedding silver. Simon what detroit needs is cash. The city has started fighting blight with some of the nearly 300 million in federal funds that orr has helped secure. For detroit, thats just a jump start. The country will be watching the motor city to see if it can begin moving forward after 50 years of going in reverse. Cbs money watch update sponsored by good evening. Early estimates show Social Security benefits for 58 million americans will rise just 1. 5 next year. The imf said this weekend the u. S. Needs to take urgent action to raise the debt ceiling before thursdays deadline. And its columbus day tomorrow, but markets will be open. Im jeff glor, cbs news. 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Safer pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers, in part because often, by the time it is diagnosed, the disease has spread to other parts of the body. So when news broke last year that a test had been developed that might detect early pancreatic cancer, the Research World not only took notice, it went into shock, for the test hadnt been developed by some renowned Cancer Research institute, but by a boy wonder, a 15yearold High School Freshman named jack andraka. He then convinced an eminent Cancer Researcher to let him use his lab to develop his theory, all before he even had a license to drive. And while the test must undergo years of Clinical Trials, the biotech industry has already beaten a path to jacks door. cheering this is jack andraka as he beats out 1,500 contestants and wins the grand prize at the Intel International science fair with his invention. Like a modern day rocky, this selfdescribed science geek took the stage and 100,000 in prize money. Pure, unadulterated adolescent joy. When you won the intel award, your reaction went viral on the internet, correct . Jack andraka yes, yes, it did. laughs safer its a nojoke award. Jack andraka i wasnt expecting any awards there. Then, when i won, i was just flabbergasted. I was, like, freaking out. I was just like, what . Safer yes, you were. Jack andraka me . Safer jack andrakas journey from suburban baltimore High School Freshman to Cancer Researcher began at age 14 when a family friend died of pancreatic cancer. Shocked that there is no reliable early test for the disease, jack decided he would develop one. He began probing the internet for everything he could find about pancreatic cancer biomarkers. He Read Research articles during class, and in the middle of biology, while stealthily reading a medical journal, he says inspiration hit. The teacher was not amused. Jack andraka i swear, she has, like, eyes on the back of her head or something. She sees me, and she storms up to my desk and is like, mr. Andraka, what is this . And, like, snatches it out of my hand. Safer as if you had Playboy Magazine right . Jack andraka yeah, yeah. Im just like. It was just a science article. Shouldnt this be a good thing . Safer when he told his parents, steve and jane andraka, about his project, they werent exactly encouraging. Steve andraka my reaction wasnt a good one. I said, jack, isnt that a little farfetched . Jane andraka and i know that when youre 14, you cant just run out and get a lab. A lot of people, you know, are like, we dont train middle schoolers. Safer but jack decided to find one that did. Over the course of four months, he prepared a test protocol for his theory and sent it out to 200 Cancer Researchers. Jack andraka i essentially had to send them my budget, my procedure, my timeline and materials list. And i actually got 199 rejections out of those. Some professors ripped apart my procedure completely. But one professor, dr. Anirban maitra, finally said yes. Safer an encouraging yes . Jack andraka it was like, this idea might work. And he starts interrogating me, kind of firing these questions, trying to sink my procedure, in a way. But i answered all of them. Safer dr. Anirban maitra was a professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins university, and now heads pancreatic Cancer Research at m. D. Anderson Cancer Center in houston. He says his curiosity was piqued by jacks proposal. Dr. Anirban maitra well, its not every day that you get an email from a 15yearold that comes with a detailed protocol, with methods and supplies and what pitfalls you might run into. And i said, maybe ill get you a corner in my lab and well have one of the postdoctoral fellows supervising you. Lets see where all this. This all goes. laughs safer for the next seven months, after school and on weekends, jacks mother would drop him off at the lab where he learned basic Lab Techniques and worked on developing his cancer test. Jack andraka finally, one day in march, i realized this was actually working. Like, it was working amazingly. Because it was passing all of these preliminary tests. And i run out and, pretty much, like, screaming around the lab. I finally go out and rush into my moms car. And, like, me and her are screaming in the car. And then, of course, i have school the next day. Safer jacks test detects an unusually high level of mesothelin, a protein that the body produces in pancreatic cancers early and most treatable stage. What exactly are you doing now . Andraka so essentially what this is is its one of my strips, and what you do is you first get an original measurement of how the electricity flows across it. Safer the paper strip is coated with a carbon substance that attracts mesothelin. It is placed in an apparatus that jack built in his parents garage. Jack andraka and im just taking out one single drop of blood here. Safer a high level of mesothelin in a patients blood sample may indicate the first stages of pancreatic cancer. Jack andraka see how its increased . Its increased by about two times here. And so what that means is that theres a really high level of this one protein there, and that signals the presence of pancreatic cancer for me. Safer while years of Clinical Trials must be done there is no f. D. A. Approved test that can reliably measure mesothelin dr. Maitra says a test of this kind that could detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stage could save thousands of lives. Maitra he did hone into the most important missing aspect in terms of pancreatic cancer, which is we dont really have good early detection. There is nothing like a psa test or a colonoscopy or a mammogram that you can get for the pancreas at this point in time. So by the time the majority of patients present, they already have tumor that has spread outside the pancreas, and those patients typically dont do very well. Safer he says the test, which costs jack three cents a strip to make, is remarkably elegant in its simplicity. Its remarkable what youve achieved and what youve come up with. Its no question. Have the brain men come to talk to you and want to figure you out . Jack andraka no, actually, no one has approached me to do, like, an autopsy of my brain yet, but. Safer a scan, shall we say. Jack andraka a scan. But, like, maybe later on, an autopsy. But, really, i dont think its that im really smart. I. I mean, i know people that are way smarter than me. You can be a genius, but if you dont have the creativity to put that knowledge to use, then you just have a bunch of knowledge and nothing else. I mean, like, then youre just as good as my smart phone. Safer his parents say he has been obsessed with science since he was a toddler, conducting experiments even as a three year old. School, for him, was so easy, his parents tried to keep him engaged by encouraging science projects at home. Jack andraka my family isnt the typical family. Like, were. Instead of, like, talking about football, we have, like, all these science magazines all scattered throughout our house. And we talk about them at dinner. Safer after jack decided to cultivate e. Coli just for the fun of it on the kitchen stove, his parents insisted that he and his older brother luke use the basement as their lab. Their parents believe the less they know about what goes on down there, the better. I gather the rule of the house is, dont burn down the house and dont kill yourself . Steve andraka pretty much. Its dont blow up the house. I want to come home and have a place to live. Safer what do they do down there . Jane andraka i dont really know because i dont go down there much. Safer and they may have reason for concern. Clearly, neatness does not count. laughs last year, luke cooked up some nitroglycerin, just to see if he could. Luke andraka and i was just interested to see, could i make it down here . It worked. Safer it also drew the attention of the fbi, who, they say, sent a letter letting them know that their internet purchasing history had been noted by the feds. Luke andraka they were a little concerned safer laughs i dont know why im laughing. But these days, jack doesnt have much time for messing in the basement. Jack andraka. applause safer his test idea has made him a star speaker at medical conferences all over the world. Jack andraka so, with me, i just used google and wikipedia to find a new way to attack pancreatic cancer. At the beginning of this, i didnt even know i had a pancreas. So if i could do that. laughter safer and hes become a regular at the white house four visits this year alone. President barack obama wheres jack . There he is. Jack, stand up. applause safer youve also become a heavyduty celebrity . Jack andraka its pretty insane. I mean, you see barack obama. Safer president barack obama. Jack andraka yeah, president barack obama. laughs and im just like, hello, mr. President. And then, hello, first lady. Its just. Like, its crazy. Safer in the past year, he has spoken in canada, italy, australia, greece, the United Nations and, so far, four trips to england. Jack andraka earlier this year. Safer . Including this address he gave to the renowned Royal Society of medicine about his test and the problems with current cancer diagnostics. Jack andraka i type this into the internet. Safer this 15yearold has all the confidence of a physician. Jack andraka and what it comes up with is i could be going through cocaine withdrawal, i could have cancer, or i could be pregnant, so. Safer . A standup physician. Jack andraka so, what i see in the future of medical diagnostics is a shift from the symptom base to more of a diagnostic antibodies based approach, such as a sensor. Safer . Working the crowds of academics and checking out cambridge university. No big deal. Jane andraka could you study here . Jack andraka yes. Safer jack easily maintains a 4. 0 g. P. A. In school, despite a spotty attendance record. Youre still in high school, correct . Jack andraka yeah. Safer why bother . Jack andraka laughs well, the reason i still bother with high school is because of my mom. She. Shes really, like, you have to do high school and you have to go to college, but. Theyre being kind of lenient with me right now. Jane andraka who wants tea . Safer jacks family is pretty laid back about his success low pressure and a high sense of humor. They say that all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. And it seems that youve been doing all work. Jack andraka well, i would say, all play, no work, because, for me, going to the lab is pretty much play, i mean, its the funnest thing ever. Safer jack holds the patent on his cancer test, and with the help of his patent lawyer, is looking to license the technology to a Pharmaceutical Company in the next few months. Now, the actual testing, on people or animals, i gather youre not interested in doing that . Jack andraka so, i did some preliminary studies. However, one thing i dont want to do is end up as a lab rat. I kind of want to be able to come up with a new idea, and then really just move on to the next idea, and have other people do the repetitive trials. Safer well, where does that stand right now . Jack andraka i have enough data to prove that this works, and so now im going to give it to the pharmaceutical companies to run it through, like, Clinical Trials and stuff. Safer he believes that, one day, his invention will be in every Doctors Office and even on pharmacy shelves. But dr. Maitra, who has seen so many promising ideas flame out when it comes to pancreatic cancer, urges caution. Maitra pancreatic cancer is a very humbling disease. Every time we think we have a home run, we barely get to first base. As a test, it is still a very long way off, and the reason for that is because such a test cannot be marketed unless it has been validated in large Clinical Trials. And that cannot be done in a small lab. That cannot be done by a 15 yearold, but that does not detract in any way from the remarkable achievement of this young man. I think he is brilliant. Jack andraka i was sitting in class and suddenly it hit me. Safer between speaking engagements and the occasional appearance at school, jack is back in the lab working on new diagnostic and environmental tests. Congratulations. Safer and while he now moves in very adult circles, jack says when it comes to his future, he is just like any other lost teenager. Jack andraka i actually have no clue what i want to do when i grow up. I mean, hopefully, something in science ill be in. And hopefully, ill be doing work that will help change the world. Safer jack has come up with a new diagnostic invention, and is using it to compete for the 10 million tricorder x prize in medical diagnostics. All of the 300 plus teams competing are made up of adult researchers, except for one. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com to hear what jacks parents did to help him succeed. Sponsored by pfizer. Arms were made for hugging. U] hands for holding. Feet, kicking. Better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. If youre trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. Xeljanz tofacitinib is a small pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. 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I call it, the avocado da vinci. Create your omlart with dennys build your own omelette menu. Stahl youve heard of the brave and ingenious rescue of jews from the nazis by oscar schindler, and the courageous and unlikely rescue of the american hostages from iran depicted in the movie argo. But nobodys heard of the daring and dangerous rescue of the vietnamese from saigon by john riordon. Its a story thats never been told before. It happened nearly 40 years ago, at the very end of the vietnam war, when everyone was trying to escape the communist incursion. No one was paying attention to an unassuming american banker who had already been evacuated, going back in to save his stranded vietnamese colleagues and their families. You got everybody. John riordon everybody. Stahl . Everybody who worked at the bank, spouses and children . Riordon right. Stahl there were 105 in all who john riordan, risking his own life, rescued in the last days of the war. Even now, four decades later, when they see him, you know they know hes the reason theyre alive. Today, theyre leading prosperous lives as american citizens, with children who are doctors and lawyers, and with grandchildren. Riordon isabel, do you know my name . Isabel john riordan. Riordon you even know my last name its even more than i know. Stahl john riordan was as far from rambo and Mission Impossible as you could get. Back in 1975, he was a young banker, handsome and unattached, working as the assistant manager of citibank in saigon. They gave you a villa. Riordon they gave me a villa. Stahl and you lived well. Riordon i lived well, yes. Stahl he hosted barbecues at the villa for the banks 34 vietnamese employees tellers, secretaries, accountants. They were like a family, tying their future to american banking. But that april, communist tanks were barreling toward saigon. Hundreds of thousands were leaving, or trying to. Three weeks before saigon fell, john got an order from citibank in new york burn everything important and get out. Riordon they said, john, weve chartered a 747 pan am thats coming in. And we want you to take all of your staff and leave the bank and get out to this plane. Stahl by this point, it dawns on you what would happen to those people if you didnt get them out. Riordon some of them would be killed. Cuc phamvo its scary. It was very scary. Cuc phamvo worked in personnel; chi vu was the head teller. They were hearing rumors of reprisals by the vietcong against anyone working for the americans. Would you have been seen as traitors, as spies . Cuc the closer you to american, the more they think you spy. Stahl but their own government set up checkpoints to keep people from leaving the country. Without exit papers, the staff had no way to escape. John didnt want to leave without them. But the bank ordered him out. So he boarded that pan am flight to hong kong alone. And the employees were left to fend for themselves. Did you feel abandoned . Cuc yes. Stahl did john say anything to you when he left . Chi vu i was crying so much. I was worried about my kids, my husband. And he said, dont worry. Ill be there for you. Stahl john and his bosses at citibank spent day and night in hong kong cooking up rescue plans. They tried to send in helicopters, even an oil tanker. And they asked the u. S. Government to help, all in vain. Riordon i felt we had all those people back in there, and they were counting on us. And many, many times, in the conversations we had with them, they said to us, dont let us down. Please do everything you can. Stahl but after two weeks of trying, citibank said enough. A manager told the hong kong team, if you try some Daring Rescue mission, youre fired that night, johns immediate boss, mike mctighe, a former marine, asked john to dinner. Riordon and just as my steak arrived and i was picking up my knife and fork and hes making small talk, and then he suddenly. He says, you know, john, one of us has to go back. And i put down my. Stahl oh riordon . Knife and fork and pushed that steak back, and i can feel tears coming out of my eyes. And he said, would you go back . Stahl go back even though it meant losing his job, possibly losing his life. And yet, 11 days before saigon would fall, the mildmannered banker defied his bank and better judgment, caught the very last commercial flight into saigon, and walked into the branch. Riordon and everybody comes running around me and said, what do we do . What do we do . How are we going to get out of here . And everything. Stahl but youre there under the authority of who . Youre not working for citibank. Riordon no one. No one. On my own. Stahl on his own authority, john moved them, with their families all 105 of them into his villa and another one nearby so theyd all be ready to go as a group when and if he came up with a plan. He told them to tell no one where they were. Four days went by. Nothing was working, until a cia agent told him the only way out now is on u. S. Military cargo planes that are evacuating americans and their dependents. Riordon he says, the evacuation has been begun. Take your family and go out to the airport and process them through. And i said, well, i dont have a family. And he said, just create a wife and children, no matter who they are, and go out there and sign the documents. Stahl this is the first time youve heard this idea . Riordon yes, yes. Stahl try and pass off his vietnamese colleagues, their spouses and children as his family . There were 105 of them do you say to him, are you kidding me . You dont say cockamamie . You dont say riordon no, no. Because thered been so much cockamania before that, this was a time to jump on anything that looked like it was going to float. Stahl you were at the end of your rope. Riordon yes, absolutely. Stahl it was worth a try, but not for all of them at once. He took the bank van and went out to the airfield alone to see if it would work. Riordon i walked into that processing area and i. Somebody gave me a piece of paper. He said, list your dependents on here. And i was fumbling for what piece of paper i was going to have to write this all down. They said, just attach that to this piece of paper and keep going. Stahl there were 15 names. Riordon it was a bit of a rush. Stahl you had a wife and 14 names. Riordon right. That was kind of ambitious. Stahl daughter, son, daughter. Riordon right. Stahl . Son. Yeah. This is the paper wife, daughter, daughter, son. 14 kids, some older than he was. He was certifying on a u. S. Government document that these were his children. Is your heart pounding . Riordon yes, a little bit. Stahl palms sweating . Riordon i certainly was nervous, yes. Stahl he was stunned when the officer no questions asked stamped it and handed john evacuation tags. He rushed to the villa to pick the 15 up, amazed that such a crazy idea was actually working. Do you remember when he came back what happened . Cuc we so happy and elation to see. He is a life saver. He an angel. Stahl but you had to keep it secret, right . Chi yes. Stahl you never told your parents . Cuc no. Stahl so you never said goodbye . Cuc no. Stahl over the next four days, as fear gripped the city, john repeated this ruse, going back and forth to the airport ten times, filling out papers with groups of six or eight. Did any of these officers ever question you in all this time . Riordon this one man, he said, havent i seen you here before . I said, no, sir, absolutely not. Bang. I know he wanted to get going, too. And then, another time, this man said, well, youve got one heck of a big family here, huh . Youve been busy when youve been. I said, oh yes, ive been here a long time. And just stamped it again. Stahl you just went back and back and back. Riordon hard to believe it would be that simple to do. Stahl we recently met with seven of his daughters. They didnt think it was all that simple since john was separating them from their husbands. All the staff women will go first, and the husbands will leave in a separate group. At that moment i was thinking, will i ever see my husband again . Stahl getting the husbands out was the most dangerous. Yes, because they were either in the army or working for the government. And if the m. P. They saw anybody like that or they caught anybody like that, they would shoot right away. Stahl john was able to get the husbands fake adoption papers as his sons. And managed to get some of them on what he thought was safe, a u. S. Embassy evacuation bus like this one to the airport. But the bus was stopped by Police Looking for deserters. Riordon the driver of the bus stopped at the checkpoint, opened the door, and a Vietnamese Police officer stepped onto the bus. And he looked up and down the aisle and i thought, this is it. We are all going to be taken off this bus and shot. But in a split second, a woman sitting in the front seat, a vietnamese woman, leaped up toward the policeman and poked her hands into his stomach. I thought she knifed him. And then i saw a bag of something move from her hands to his hands and i thought aha, its a bribe stahl bag of money . Riordon bag of money, yes. Stahl the bribe worked; he waved them through. The last group of men at the villa were afraid to risk another bus, but john was out of ideas. Finally, one of the men thought up an ingenious plan they pretended they were delivering bundles of money to the airport in the bank van. They even called the police for an escort like this. Riordon and they had rifles and everything. And they just led us right through the gates of the airport. Stahl you just went right on the plane with these guys . Riordon right. They were safe. Stahl all of them . Riordon all of them. Stahl one of them was chis husband. Stahl every time i ask you about john, you cry. Chi hes so kind, you know, to stay behind and take. Took us out. He did so much for us. Saved my kids and my husband. Stahl they flew on one of the last planes out of saigon. After that, the only route of escape were the helicopters at the u. S. Embassy. Within a few days, vietcong tanks rolled into the president ial palace. The war was over. What followed were years of starvation and brutal repression. Many who tried to escape by boat drowned at sea. But thanks to john, the citibank employees were flown out to either guam or the philippines, and then all reunited at Camp Pendleton in california. Do you think all this time youve been fired . Riordon yeah, i do still think that. Im not worried about it, though. Im still alive, theyre all alive. Important things. Stahl well, he wasnt fired. He was given a big bonus and hailed as a hero. At the reunion for john in long island with a group of his children, we found out they call him papa. Papa john. Riordon do you remember me . Yes, i do. I havent talked to you in a long time stahl citibank spent a Million Dollars to resettle all the employees, giving them and many of the spouses jobs. Riordon i will never forget you, too. Stahl at the time, in saigon, he thought of his colleagues at the bank as his vietnamese family. 40 years later still his family, but now, as american as. Cheese stahl do you think the people who came here have had good lives . Riordon yes, i do. Stahl how many children do you actually have now, and grandchildren . Riordon i just keep using the number 105. But the grandchildren, dont ask me. 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