Interview with Don and Rosemary McLeod (Frontline out takes)

Don McLeod as a cameraman for CBS News describes his job as filming the actuality; fear in a combat situation and anticipation beforehand; it was a calculated risk just being there; his fear of flying in helicopters piloted by United States (US) conscript pilots; how his nerves became affected; sustaining heavy fire in a helicopter, and the heavy landing at Ben Het US Special Forces camp; developing a neurotic fear of flying during sixteen months especially in C-130 Hercules aircraft; fighting conditions at 'Hamburger Hill' (Ap Bia Mountain) one of the fiercest battles of the war; the most moving emotional experience as witnessing a mass funeral at Hue; becoming fatalistic; complacency of US conscripts; why US networks employed Australian cameramen; how the Viet Cong controlled the country after dark; being ambushed on a river patrol. Rosemary McLeod as his wife describes initial feelings and coming to terms with Don's work; Don's motivation and outlook; other cameramen; rocket attacks on Saigon; existence of cameramen's wives in Saigon.