Contact sheet containing 20 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Saigon - Sgt. Charles Smith (waiting for a special court) - rice trucks being unloaded - an accident - GI chatting with bar girl - Sp4 Bob Edwards (guarding an alley). NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: First two frames will be shots of Sgt. Charles Smith, story to come, who is in Saigon trying to hire a civilian lawyer to defend him at a special court martial. The third and fourth frames will be mug shots of him. The next ten or so frames will include shots of the rice convoy and loading the trucks at the Cholon warehouse, mug shots of S. Sgt. Charles Wine, a shot of a woman tossed from her motor scooter in an accident in which a GI driver was involved (he was certainly driving fast for the heavy traffic near the central market) but to what extent or responsibility, I don't know, and a GI (S. Sgt. Wine but not for ID) chatting with out-of-work bar girls at an open air bar-café. The final three or four shots show war-blasted neighborhood in Gia Dinh, near Saigon River bridge, and "Happy New Year" written in the Chinese-Vietnamese style, but in English. One more I forgot (It's near midnight, my typewriter has been sticking on "h" and "n" and I'm getting punchy) is a GI guarding an alley mouth behind a pile of smoldering garbage. He is Sp4 Bob Edwards, 20, of Bevier, Mo., a HAC bus driver…
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Collection StructureOverseas Weekly photographs
> Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 12778
Item Title
Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 12778
Collection TitleOverseas Weekly photographs
Photographer
Jordan, Phil
Publisher
Overseas Weekly
Date CreatedFebruary 09, 1968
Description
Language(s)
FormatStill Image
Medium
contact sheets
Record Number2014c35.203
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