Interview with Neil Davis at Tim Bowden's Film 5 Take 6 (Frontline out takes)

Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent on the account given by an unnamed Australian journalist who claimed to a survivor of Viet Cong ambush in Cholon, Saigon. Davis and other journalists didn't believe in was on the vehicle with the journalists that were killed. Davis comments that this journalist never been in combat and that he never let accuracy get in the way of a good story. Why Davis didn't stay behind in Phnom Penh when the city fell to the Khmer Rouge. Davis was convinced that the Communists would be brutal as he had seen the massacre of villagers by the Khmer Rouge. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in comparison were well trained and disciplined troops and didn't conduct massacres when they occupied territory. The Khmer Rouge would not spare journalists. How Davis survived a battle in early on in the war in Vietnam by using dead bodies of soldiers as protection as there was no other cover. Shrapnel from mortar and artillery shells the greatest danger when caught out in the clear. Davis's advice to a young journalist going out into a war zone is to watch and do what the soldiers do. Briefly relates the time he was in a helicopter when it was hit by enemy fire in Vietnam in 1972.