Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 42:54)

(Tuesday, April 29, 1975, 2:00 p.m. ICT; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — U.S. President Gerald Ford ordered the emergency evacuation today of all Americans remaining in South Vietnam.

The evacuation of the Americans, believed to total more than 950, was expected to take less than nine hours.

The plan called for picking them up in helicopters, flown with U.S. Marines as guards, to Saigon from carriers lying off South Vietnam.

Video: 'Vietnam The Ten Thousand Day War 01of13 America in Vietnam' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 46:01)

Video: 'Vietnam The Ten Thousand Day War 12of13 Surrender' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 32:38)

Video: 'The Fall Of Saigon (Part 2)' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 9:02)

Video: 'The Fall Of Saigon (Part 3)' (Apr. 29, 1975)

Video: 'The Fall Of Saigon (Part 4)' (Apr. 29, 1975)

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

Video: 'The Fall Of Saigon (Part 6)' (Apr. 29, 1975)