After the evacuation, the Saigon staff gathered outside the refugee tents at Camp Pendleton Marine Base, California, 1975.

Radicals At Home, Saving Lives Abroad

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 6, 2015

Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair special correspondent, on the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the ‘70s. John Riordan, a former Vice President of Citibank, on his role in evacuating 106 Vietnamese people in the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War. Helen Macdonald on how training a hawk helped her overcome grief. Alvin and Lawrence Ubell, the self-appointed “Gurus of How-To,” take calls on the nuts and bolts of home repair.

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