the 101st airborne division. half a block to the u.s. embassy, vietcong snipers and suicide commandos were holed up inside the embassy compound and firing from surrounding buildings. now cia men and mps have gone into the embassy and are trying to get the snipers out. by themselves. military police got back into the compound of the $2.5 million embassy complex at dawn. the fighting went on for a total of six hours before the last known vietcong raider was killed. in a small residence of the embassy s mission coordinator, george jacobson, who had been hiding out all alone all morning. you had quite an escape at the end. how did that happen? they put riot gas into the bottom floors of my house which of course would drive whoever is down below up top where i was.
the small residents to the mission coordinator george jacobson was hiding out alean lone all more than. you had quite a escape. they put riot gas into the bottom floors of my house which would drive everybody down below where i was they threw me a pistol ten minutes before this occurred. and with all the luck i ve had all my life i got him before he got me. i m sorry. he had what. an m 16. and you got him. that really scared people because that showed americans being attacked, the marines unable to defend the embassy. in reality they did defend the embassy. they killed them and drove them back but it s not the way it looked on tv. and then at the same time the destrun of this beautiful ent city of whaey and my
coordinator george jacobson had been hiding out all alone all morning. you had quite an escape at the end. how did that happen? they put riot gas into the bottom floors of my house which of course would drive whoever is down below up top where i was. they had thrown me a pistol about ten minutes before this occurred and with all the luck i ve had all of my life, i got him before he got me. he had what? an m-16. and you got him? that just really scared people because that showed americans being attacked, the marines unable to defend the embassy. in reality they did defend the embassy. they killed them and drove them back but that s not the way it looked on tv. and then at the same time, the distraction of this beautiful ancient city and my god, what
vietnam. this neighborhood. saigon airport. casualties in south vietnam. hear the rounds flying overhead. simultaneous attacks shocked the american people. the enemy has taken advantage. every year there was a seize fire on the holidays and they believed that year would be the same thing but that wasn t what happened. these are american combat military police. half a block. snipers and suicide commandos were held up inside the compound and firing. now cia men and mps have gone into the embassy trying to get the snipers out by themselves. military police got back into the compound of the $2.5 million embassy complex. the fighting went on for a total of six hours before the last known raider was killed. a small residence of the mission
the 101st airborne division. half a block to the u.s. embassy, vietcong snipers and suicide commandos were holed up inside the embassy compound and firing from surrounding buildings. now cia men and mps have gone into the embassy and are trying to get the snipers out. by themselves. military police got back into the compound of the $2.5 million embassy complex at dawn. the fighting went on for a total of six hours before the last known vietcong raider was killed. in a small residence of the embassy s mission coordinator, george jacobson, who had been hiding out all alone all morning. you had quite an escape at the end. how did that happen? they put riot gas into the bottom floors of my house which of course would drive whoever is down below up top where i was. they had thrown me a pistol about ten minutes before this