Hanoi Hannah Quotes

• Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

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  We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn’t want to.

   

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• We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

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• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

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• There’s a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

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• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

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• Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

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• Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what’s going on.

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• It wasn’t a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

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• I would like to see America some day.

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• I put my heart in my work.

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• I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

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• I had to do something for the country.

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• I am happy with what I’ve done.

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• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it’s a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don’t have much attention from people outside.

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• And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

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• And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

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• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

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• American GIs don’t fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson’s.

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Hanoi Hannah (20)

Birth:	1931
Nationality:	Vietnamese
Profession:	Radio Personality

About

Trịnh Thị Ngọ, also known as Hanoi Hannah was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is a Vietnamese radio personality best known for her work during the Vietnam War, when she made English-language broadcasts for North Vietnam directed at US troops.

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