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Probably Hit An Air Pocket
I remember going to North Vietnam, this was after I had left and I came back to go to Hanoi and I remember going through a village in North Vietnam with government escorts and this village had been bombed maybe the day before, maybe two days before by the United States. What had happened was, I’m going to guess but I’m pretty sure, a B52 flying quite high probably hit an air pocket, maybe it was dodging a missile and it dropped what they called a stick, you know about 8 250-pound bombs that went right through the village, dozens of people dead. They were not happy to see an American reporter, but it was a story that again I thought Americans should know about.
Object Description
| Profile of | Michael Parks |
| Title | A Life Apart from Vietnam |
| Profile bio | The Wrong War |
| Profiler bio | Michael Parks is a journalist originally from Detroit, Michigan, whose work as a foreign correspondent took him to Saigon, Moscow, Johannesburg, Beijing, and Hong Kong. He received a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1987 for his coverage of South Africa. He worked as the editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years and helped launch the “Reading by 9” program to help children read at grade level. Parks has been a member of the USC community since 2000 and was director of the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism from 2002 until 2008. He was appointed interim director at Annenberg in June of 2013. |
| Subject | Kaitlyn Mullin is a junior and a double major in Biological Sciences and Print and Digital Journalism. Renzhi Yu is a senior and a double major in Business Administration and Accounting. Sofia Shoffner is a sophomore and a double major in International Relations and Spanish. Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick is a sophomore and an International Relations major. |
| Interviewee |
Vietnam Vietnam war news communism viet cong draft |
| Profiled by | Mullin, Kaitlyn; Yu, Renzhi; Schoffner, Sofia; Fitzpatrick, Jalen Cope |
| Profile date | 2014-04-12 |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Detroit; Saigon; Ho Chi Minh City; Hanoi; Moscow; Johannesburg; Beijing; Hong Kong |
| Geographic subject (county) | Wayne |
| Geographic subject (state) | Michigan; Kentucky |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA; Vietnam; Russia; South Africa; China; Korea, Laos |
| Coverage date | 1972 |
| Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/michael-parks/ |
| Type |
images video |
| Format | 1 image; 8 video files; 8 transcripts |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
| Filename | parksmichaels |
Description
| Profile of | Michael Parks |
| Title | Probably Hit an Air Pocket |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | parksmichaels-vid3_tr3.pdf |
| Full text | Probably Hit An Air Pocket I remember going to North Vietnam, this was after I had left and I came back to go to Hanoi and I remember going through a village in North Vietnam with government escorts and this village had been bombed maybe the day before, maybe two days before by the United States. What had happened was, I’m going to guess but I’m pretty sure, a B52 flying quite high probably hit an air pocket, maybe it was dodging a missile and it dropped what they called a stick, you know about 8 250-pound bombs that went right through the village, dozens of people dead. They were not happy to see an American reporter, but it was a story that again I thought Americans should know about. |
| Archival file | Volume6/parksmichaels-vid3_tr3.pdf |
