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It was just a few days before my birthday on April 17th when the bomb-shell landed. Actually it was more like fireworks, with benign explosive impact and amazing super good news!
March 30th1965 Vietcong set off a massive explosion that tore off the side off the American Embassy in Saigon.
Monday, May 24th to Friday, May 28th, 1965
Washington D.C.
- Monday, May 24, “1965,” I learn that I’m going to be stationed in Saigon, Vietnam – everyone gets a big laugh.
- The next day I go to the big Liston vs Cassius Clay, (now Mohamed Ali) Fight Tuesday, May 25th, 1965 – at a basketball court/stadium in D.C. shown on super large close circuit tv monitors
- Thursday, June 17th it’s to the then D.C. offices of the National Security Agency for a farewell treat at the NSA museum – Pull microphone from the Cardinal’s attic apartment in the US Embassy, etc.
- microphones built into building’s walls
- Make sure you close Venetian blinds … the window’s glass vibrations can be picked up with a directional and amplified microphone.
- Safe Rooms in the basement of all embassy’s clear plexiglass suspended above the floor on isolating vibration absorbers.
- A quick tour of 007-like gadgets
- The microphone was lowered down the chimney in the Warsaw Embassy room where the Catholic Cardinal was living while Poland was part of the Soviet Union.
- Tug of war … and we WON!
THIS VIDEO WITH MY MUSIC UNDER…