Interview with Pat Burgess (Frontline out takes)

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Accession Number F10541
Collection type Film
Measurement 10 min 36 sec
Object type Interview
Physical description 16mm/colour (Eastman)/sound
Maker Burgess, Francis Patrick "Pat"
Bradbury, David
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 28 February 1978
Access Open
Conflict Period 1970-1979
Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Francis Patrick Burgess as a correspondent for John Fairfax & Sons Ltd, News Limited and the 7 Network on the death of four fellow correspondents; accompanying Police Chief General Loan fighting near the bridge to Bien Hoa; grim conditions at Hue, and North Vietnamese determination; reasons for reporting the Vietnam war; the Australian soldier; out break of the Tet offensive in Saigon; Australian humour and reasons for reporting the Vietnam war.

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