Editor's Note: This article is part of KSAT’s special, "50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio," highlighting how the war in Vietnam affected veterans in the Alamo City and South Texas.

Fifty years ago, 2-year-old Phan Kim Phuong was handed up into a military aircraft, her future a near-complete blank save one truth: She would not grow up in Vietnam. Saigon was falling to the North ...

On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the nearly 20-year Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam ...

HANOI — The first ladies of Korea and Vietnam had a friendly exchange in Hanoi, Thursday, exploring shared cultural ties between the two countries during President Lee Jae Myung’s state visit to the ...

The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of ...

KPBS presents a special on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Sàigòn. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Sàigòn and the end of the Vietnam War. KPBS presents a special featuring the ...

April 30 marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. This story is personal to me, so I flew to Saigon to witness how the Vietnamese people commemorate the event. I grew up ...

Paul Todd had just turned 23 and was enjoying his first year of teaching U.S. history to middle-schoolers at McPherson Junior High in the city of Orange when he received notice he was being drafted to ...

Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and helicopters roar ...