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SAIGON KID DANIEL MURPHY RECALLS HIS YOUTH IN VIETNAM – 1958 TO 1959

Submitted by Daniel Murphy (ACS and JDP)

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My name is Dan Murphy. My Father Raymond (Spud) Murphy worked for JDP.

We lived in Ban Methout from June 1958 to May 1959 more or less; and, then outside of Pleiku […]

ELVIS – THE DEFINITIVE ANTHOLOGY

By Admin

Most of us older Saigon Kids™ were there during the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll. It became *our music* and the king of our Rock ‘n’ Roll was Elvis.

Enjoy 4 HOURS of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

The Definitive Anthology.

Elvis 100 Hits

What’s your favorite Elvis song? Tell us in the […]

SAIGON, A WAR NOT OUR OWN – MOVIE TRAILER

I am documenting the experiences and emotional repercussions of American children living in Saigon at the onset of Vietnam war. […]

SAIGON KIDS™ STORIES: MEMORIES OF THE KINH DO THEATER BOMBING

By Deborah Spohr Martins (ACS)

We were all sitting at the dinning room table having dinner, my Mom , Dad , brother, sister and my self,when the bomb went off and shook our house windows. My father who was the assistant manager of ESSO Oil Company,(he was a civilian and always seemed to know what […]

CLOD Studio33 Presents: REBELS

by Admin

If you came up during the 1950’s, as I did, and you were *hip* and not a *square* you became engulfed in the *beat* cultural movement of the times.

Hipsters Jazz A new kind of Bohemian Beatniks Beat poetry Coffee Houses Bongos Beat literature Non-conformity Free love Uncensored Free spirits Rock N Roll […]