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After the war we received one letter from an ex-GI who said he listened to our broadcast and now that the war was over he is back home and wanted us to know about it.
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American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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Get out of Vietnam now and alive.
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How are you, GI Joe?
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I am happy with what I've done.
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I had to do something for the country.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I put my heart in my work.
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I would like to see America some day.
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It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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No, during the war it was difficult to get feedback except through foreign news reports but we knew we were being heard.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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That they would see this war is not in the interests of the United States. I mean the people, the GIs, the families.
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The Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett helped us from time to time and a French woman, Madelaine Riffaud.
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There was the list of Missing in Action, those who were killed on the battlefield, we read the news with the native place.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Things are better now between the U.S. and Vietnam and I hope relations will continue to improve, to normalize.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
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We also have our own music, but I think that the GIs like to listen to American music, it's more suitable to their ears.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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We could also intercept the AP and UPI wires and of course we had the news from our Vietnam News Agency and we rewrote it.
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We did several interviews with Cora Weiss and Jane Fonda.
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We just thought we had to tell them the best thing to do was not to interfere in the affairs of the Vietnamese.
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We mentioned that GIs should go AWOL and suggested some frigging, or that is fragging.
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We never informed that such and such a battle would take place. That we would not do.
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We took remarks of American journalists and put it in our broadcasts, especially remarks about casualties... high casualties.
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We would often say to the GIs that the Saigon regime was not worth their support.
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Well, I think that our earnest hope was the GIs would not participate in this war, that they would demand to go home.
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Well, I'm taking retirement now, but I'd be happy to do something to help relations between the U.S. and Vietnam.
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Well, in our talks we said that if they were in Vietnam, how could they avoid the war zone and maybe they will get bad chance, maybe killed.
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Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.
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Yes, Arnaud DeBorchegrave in Newsweek. I remember we used his articles.
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Yes, yes, we bought the music from progressive Americans who came to visit Hanoi.

Biography

Hanoi Hannah (also Trinh Thi Ngo) was a Vietnamese woman who, during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, read broadcast radio messages and propaganda to convince U.S. troops to go AWOL, a psychological warfare scheme set forth by the North Communist Vietnamese. She made 3 broadcasts-a-day talking to American soldiers. She read the list of the newly killed or imprisoned Americans, tried to persuade American GIs that the American involvement in Vietnam was unjust and immoral, and also played popular American anti-war songs to incite feelings of nostalgia and homesickness amongst GIs. Here is an excerpt of one of her usual broadcast speeches:Her voice can be heard even in the computer game in the battle of Hue over the public address system.

See also


*Tokyo Rose
*Mildred Gillars
*Lord Haw-Haw
*Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

...(more on Wikipedia)

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