Video: Bob Hope's last show in Vietnam (8:58)

(Sunday, December 24, 1972, Christmas Eve; during Operation Linebacker II, part of the Vietnam War) — Comedian Bob Hope, who has been visiting troops in Vietnam at Christmas since 1965 and entertaining American servicemen elsewhere overseas for 31 years, has performed his last show in Vietnam.

“This trip to Vietnam is my last,” he told troops attended a show today at the Tan Son Nhut airbase outside Saigon.