April 29, 2015 | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Rochester International Event Center
Rochester, MN United States

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Exclusive Film Premiere - Last Days in Vietnam

Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 pm
(Brief ceremony and presentation followed by the film.)

Rochester International Event Center

Free and open to the public. Brought to you by KSMQ Public Television, Rochester Veterans Council & Powers Ventures.

2015 Academy Award nominee - Documentary Feature

Directed and produced by Rory Kennedy.

April, 1975, during the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army close in on Saigon, South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. City after city and village after village fell to the North while the US diplomats and military operatives still in the country contemplated withdrawal. With the lives of thousands of South Vietnamese hanging in the balance, those in control faced an impossible decision - who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment, or even death. "The Last Days of Vietnam" will detail first-hand and never heard before experiences of those who were there.