William Hammond garnered a laudable reputation as a military historian on behalf of the Vietnam branch of the U.S. Army Center of Military History between 1972 and 2001. During that period, he planned, researched and wrote two volumes on the U.S. Army’s relations with the news media during the Vietnam War. His works on military-media relations and race relations in the U.S. Army attracted major attention from the press. As a result, Dr. Hammond has been interviewed over 100 times by various news media, including by the late Peter Jennings of ABC News.
Who Were the Saigon Correspondents and Does It Matter?
January 1, 2000
A paper by William M. Hammond, spring 1999 fellow, investigates the mystery of the Saigon correspondents. Opinions about who the correspondents were have been varied, and often colored by an individual’s view of the Vietnam War. A high percentage of them were messengers, translators, technicians and cameramen, and back up staff members of all sorts,
