1975: The Day I Left Saigon

When the US fled Vietnam, ABC News had to worry about its local employees. We got 101 of them out

By: Kevin Delany

A member of the CIA helps evacuees up a ladder onto an Air America helicopter on the roof of 22 Gia Long Street April 29, 1975, shortly before Saigon fell to advancing North Vietnamese troops. Wikimedia Commons

I started looking for something familiar from the time we touched down at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tansonhut Airport on an evening flig…