Last Flight from Saigon

Charles Paul Freund | 4.29.2005 2:37 PM

You know that famous photo of the helicopter on the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon, with a long line of people waiting in vain to board as the capital falls? Well, photographer Hubert van Es reveals that 30 years of captions have been wrong.

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