Is the Marion City Council liable for the death of the editor’s elderly mother after a police raid on her home? Governments don’t like their secrets being exposed — whether totalitarian governments or the so-called free democracies. It involved the military and Vietnam — in fact it took place in Saigon, at the American Forces Vietnam Network. Lawrence had alerted the news press covering the Vietnam War from Saigon, and local major media outlets taped the allegations he made and sent the feeds back to the states. The working press in Vietnam — the Dan Rathers and the Peter Arnetts of the world — got their stories immediately over the Associated Press and United Press International wires.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2023 00:26 UTC