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Vietnam War propagandist ‘Hanoi Hannah’ dies at 87

Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 15:50 BFH Uncategorized 21

Her broadcasts aimed to convince American G.I.’s to give up the unjust war.

e.vnexpress – Vietnamese radio personality Hanoi Hannah, who is best known for her English-language broadcasts for North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, died on Friday at her home in Ho Chi Minh City at the age of 87.

The former radio announcer for the Voice of Vietnam, whose real name is Trinh Thi Ngo, was known to many American soldiers during the war for broadcasting a nostalgic mix of folk songs, lists of U.S. soldiers who had been killed or captured and news on anti-war protests back home.

She started working for VOV in 1955 and was famous long before the war ended in 1975. Robin Williams referenced her in Good Morning Vietnam, the 1987 comedy loosely based on U.S. Armed Forces Radio Service DJ Adrian Cronauer.

How are you, GI Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. 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.
Hanoi Hannah, 1967 broadcast

Sometimes she made the soldiers laugh, but other times they threw empty beer cans at the radio, according to Don North, an ABC newsman in Vietnam during the war. There were actually several Hanoi Hannahs at the time, but Ngo, who had received private lessons in English, was the most frequently heard, and most recognizable.

“Her job was to chill and frighten, not to charm and seduce,” North wrote years after the war. “Her voice was as smooth as silk, her English impeccable, and as North Vietnam’s premier propagandist, ‘Hanoi Hannah’ tried to convince American G.I.’s that the war was immoral, that they should lay down their arms and go home.”

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21 Comments on Vietnam War propagandist ‘Hanoi Hannah’ dies at 87

  3. Was hoping it was time for a fonda sod-bottom inspection:)

    Hanoi Hanna “Sometimes she made the soldiers laugh, but other times they threw empty beer cans at the radio, according to Don North, an ABC newsman in Vietnam during the war.”

    Now we laugh and throw stuff at the propagandist abc

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