Hugh Duncan Lunn as a correspondent for Reuters News Agency interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'

Scene 27, Take 1: Describes Saigon before Tet offensive. Important festival, flowers lined streets. Usual seven day truce for festival shortened by American tothirty six hours due to fear of attack further north - no truce in the northern five provinces or southern part of North Vietnam. Describes ‘Five O’clock Follies’ where a colonel or major gave daily announcements to press about the war that no-one really believed. Reporters in the field had different stories to report. The body count for the enemy was always reported to be a lot more than American losses. Actual number unknown. General Westmoreland, US military commander in Vietnam said they knew about the attack after the event but senior military official in Vietnam admitted to being surprised and unprepared. The intelligence (if it existed) was not passed to them. Scene 27, Take 2, roll 55: [retake of 1] Scene 27, Take 3: On the night of the Tet offensive, a Vietnamese reporter warned Lunn there would be an attack but would not allow a report to go out in the press. Scene 27, Take 4: Describes start of the attack. Scene 27, Take 5: Next day, the Vietcong had taken the American embassy in Saigon. Scene 27, Take 6: Describes the scene at the American embassy with dead soldiers; bullet ridden cars and embassy building; soldiers firing on embassy to retake building. Scene 27, Take 7: Back in Australia, everyone seemed disinterested, apathetic. A demonstration against the war planned in Brisbane. Organisers didn’t want to hear from anyone who was there – they had Dr Jim Cairns who would address the demonstration. Scene 27, Takes 8 and 9: [retakes of 7].