Dan Southerland served for more than five years as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beijing, as well as for nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, Saigon, and Hong Kong for UPI and the Christian Science Monitor. He retired in 2016 from his position as executive editor of Radio Free Asia.
Remembering Tet
A reporter who was in Saigon recalls the day on January 30, 1968, when the South Vietnamese capital came under attack.