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Good Intentions
The country, which had been a food surplus nation, became a food deficit nation. When you cant feed your own people you know you’ve got a problem.
The same thing happened in Cambodia and this war spread into two other countries, Cambodia and Laos, it wasn’t just Vietnam. Cambodia was really quite devastated and it led to the upsurge of the Khmer Rouge and one of the most murderous regimes of the 20th century.
Laos fortunately is kind of laid back and everything. They call themselves the land of a million elephants and of the white parasol, and there’s something to that image of a million elephants and a white parasol that suggests the Lao are pretty ok. But the Hmong people who were aiding the Americans in a secret war up on the Plain of Jars suffered tremendously and eventually were expatriated to the United States. We have a large colony of them up in Fresno and there are others in Montana of all places. I mean, we did a hell of a lot there, and with good intentions, always good intentions, except maybe the construction companies.
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 | Good Intentions |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | parksmichaels-vid7_tr7.pdf |
| Full text | Good Intentions The country, which had been a food surplus nation, became a food deficit nation. When you cant feed your own people you know you’ve got a problem. The same thing happened in Cambodia and this war spread into two other countries, Cambodia and Laos, it wasn’t just Vietnam. Cambodia was really quite devastated and it led to the upsurge of the Khmer Rouge and one of the most murderous regimes of the 20th century. Laos fortunately is kind of laid back and everything. They call themselves the land of a million elephants and of the white parasol, and there’s something to that image of a million elephants and a white parasol that suggests the Lao are pretty ok. But the Hmong people who were aiding the Americans in a secret war up on the Plain of Jars suffered tremendously and eventually were expatriated to the United States. We have a large colony of them up in Fresno and there are others in Montana of all places. I mean, we did a hell of a lot there, and with good intentions, always good intentions, except maybe the construction companies. |
| Archival file | Volume6/parksmichaels-vid7_tr7.pdf |
