Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 41:50)

(Tuesday, April 29, 1975; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airport came under the heaviest rocket attack of the war early this morning, preventing passenger planes from taking off, as North Vietnamese troops assaulted parts of the city’s suburbs. But U.S. ambassador, Graham Martin was still reluctant to begin a full-scale helicopter evacuation.

Video: 'The Fall Of Saigon (Part 2)' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 5:45)