Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 23, 1975, at 23:30)

(Wednesday, April 23, 1975; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — 100,000 North Vietnamese communist forces, less than 30 miles from Saigon, begin an advance from five directions with orders to penetrate and occupy the South Vietnamese capitol within a week.