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...looking for a 1982 white Thunderbird, Arizona plate JWK923, driven by Gary Allen Land, who may have been a witness to the bombing. Also today, the FBI released athird sketch of John Doe 2, with the added information that the man the FBI is seeking is "very tan" and muscular, possibly a weightlifter. At the Murrah building, Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating said that further digging by hand would endanger the lives of rescue workers. After 12 days, he said, any victims remaining inside are almost certainly dead. So far, 137 deaths have been confirmed.Oklahoma Explosion Page
...joint session at which he pleaded for unity. Late in the afternoon of April 28 (early morning of the 29th in Saigon), Kissinger's deputy Brent Scowcroft burst into a meeting of Ford with his energy and economic advisers, bearing a message about the rocket and artillery attacks on Tan Son Nhut. The President called an emergency meeting of his National Security Council and issued an order. At 10:51 a.m., April 29, in Saigon, Armed Forces Radio burst forth with White Christmas. That was the signal that Option IV, the helicopter lift...
Hodges kept flying for 12 straight hours, well into the night; all his other trips were into Tan Son Nhut. "After dark, you could see fire fights coming in from the coast to Saigon," he says. "Air traffic was very crowded at night, [and] we didn't have night-vision goggles. The worst fear I had was of running into another airplane. The Vietnamese I saw, I remember looking at them and they were just confused-how I'd feel if I'd just left my home forever...
...maniacal frenzy. On the other side of the walls, crowds were shouting chants against the U.S., celebrating the imminent victory of the communists. In the distance, our jets were still flying cover, chased by tracer rounds." From the air, "I could see the DAO [defense attache office] headquarters [at Tan Son Nhut] burning in the distance. Yet the city itself had this unearthly calm. It was pitch black. No movement, no light, no sense of what was coming...
FRANK GIBNEY'S FIRST VISION OF Vietnam was postapocalyptic. "The ghosts of the war were everywhere," he recalls of his trip in March 1984. "The piles of Huey chopper parts at Tan Son Nhut airport, the musty bar of the Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. In Hanoi rats scurried through the hotel; the water was cold." There was an air of huddled secrecy. "You couldn't get a straight answer out of anyone. The people who could articulate the state of affairs were diplomats, themselves grasping at bits of information...