Ngoc Nguyen
Ngoc Nguyen is an award-winning multimedia journalist, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, PBS and national public radio programs. She covers health, the environment and Asian American issues. She’s reported on the Vietnamese American community from California, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Vietnam. Her investigative report on the health impact of wartime Agent Orange exposure among Vietnamese Americans won a national journalism award from the Asian American Journalists Association.
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Between May and December of 1975, some 50,000 Vietnamese, Laotian and Hmong refugees came through Fort Chaffee, before going to live with sponsors in towns across the country. -
This week marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. On today's show, we'll hear about refugees from the Vietnam War who made their way to the U.S. through Fort Chaffee. And while the war in Vietnam was half a world away, the impact was felt locally, as we hear in archival recordings of war protests from the Pryor Center.
