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[Dawson]

Pretty sure there was no Telex in Saigon. News agencies made tonnes of money sending stories fof individual news outlets. CDN used mostly The AP.

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Arnold Isaacs <ari...@gmail.com>: Apr 16 03:22PM -0400 Perhaps some on this list who were around for the war's final months will remember Bob Tamarkin, last Saigon correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. For your possible interest, his stepdaughter Elisa has published Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon. Here's the entry on the University of Chicago Press catalog:   https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo264815504.html   Elisa then 4 years old, and her mother Civia Tamarkin joined Bob in Saigon in late March 75, left after just a few weeks. Bob covered the final weeks and left on the last helicopter out of the embassy hours before Saigon fell. Elisa is now a professor of English at UCBerkeley.   Skip Isaacs

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Vietnam's One-Man Rule arrives.

Arnold Isaacs <ari...@gmail.com>: Apr 16 03:15PM -0400 Skip Isaacs   3:12 PM (1 minute ago)     to me     Perhaps some on this list who were around for the war's final months will remember Bob Tamarkin, last Saigon correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. For your possible interest, his stepdaughter Elisa has published Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon. Here's the entry on the University of Chicago Press catalog:   https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo264815504.html   Elisa, then 4 years old, and her mother Civia Tamarkin joined Bob in Saigon in late March 75, left after just a few weeks. Bob covered the final weeks and days and left on the last helicopter out of the embassy hours before Saigon fell. Elisa is now a professor of English at UCBerkeley.   Skip Isaacs

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[Arnold Isaacs]

As I recall there was no public telex service in Saigon but AP and maybe other wire services had telex connections in their bureaus, available to other clients... 

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[Donald Kirk]

Hey, you guys apparently didn't file via telex.I practically lived in the place, in a cubby hole of an office across Tu Do from the Caravelle, opp. the Continental. They had two telex machines, one operator at best. I sometimes telexed my own pieces. I think I could have gotten a job as a telex operator somewhere. But, yes, Reuters and UPI also moved copy on behalf of papers. I filed for ChiTrib via Reuters (pronorlake). . I also filed for WashStar via AP on occasion (not always, often via telex.)  I filed for some others via UIPI, can't recall which ones

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Don

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