Hanoi Hannah moderated during the Vietnam War under the pseudonym Thu Huong - the fragrance of fall (dt: Fall aroma) a publicity broadcast on Vietnamese radio Voice of Vietnam. The Americans provided it the name of Hanoi Hannah.
She took English courses in her youth and also was interested most of all for films that were shown with French captions. From 1955 she benefited the radio station Voice of Vietnam.
Their publicity program, which was transmitted three times daily, was routed to the U.S. forces in Vietnam. Trinh Thi Ngo exiting checklists of casualties and detainees tried, the soldiers of the outrage of the battle to persuade and also to convince them to quit the struggle. This moment they played popular music as well as revealed news from the U.S., specifically on the anti-war presentations. They came to be more well-known through interviews with Jane Fonda. Trinh Thi Ngo held the program of 1965 to 1972.
She lives with her hubby today in Ho Chi Minh City and also has a boy and also a child.
Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Hanoi.
"We advised them to do what they think proper against the war"
"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh"
"I had to do something for the country"
"Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them"
"Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah"
"Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside"
"Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement"
"We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to"
"This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam"
"Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours"
"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers"
"I am happy with what I've done"
"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on"
"And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe"
"And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers"
"Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice"
"American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's"
"There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world"
