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New York Times – September 27, 1964
SAIGON.
LAST November, when all the world’s newspapers were full of the coup in South Vietnam, the deaths of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, the second-graders in Room 7 of the American Community School of Saigon decided to put out their own [...]
You find interesting things while surfing the Internet researching Saigon Kids and ACS. Here is an Editorial from “Times Of Vietnam” giving an interesting perspective about Americans in Viet-nam.
While reading this article “The Ugly American” came to mind.
I found this article interesting, as during the many, many years during my [...]
Any Saigon Kids who attended ACS during late 1964 to its closing in February 1965 we need to pick your brain for information – LOL
In 1964 construction was started on the final building which was added to the ACS compound. It was completed in late January 1965 about 2 weeks before the [...]
Our American Community School in Saigon has now joined the ranks of the world’s largest encyclopedia – Wikepedia.
The article documents the history of ACS from the early days of home schooling through closing of the school in 1965, conversion to 3rd Field Hospital to present day usage of the compound buildings.
While Bruce [...]
The Arizona Daily Star
Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Author: Bonnie Henry
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They were typical American teen-agers: playing softball, listening to old Buddy Holly records – and cowering in the kitchen ’til the machine guns fell silent.
For this was Saigon , early ’60s, in a country [...]
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