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On a Motorbike Built for one: Vietnamese father loads his five youngsters on his motorcycle and sets out for a spin over the streets of Saigon, January 1, 1967
On a Motorbike Built for one: Vietnamese father loads his five youngsters on his motorcycle and sets out for a spin over the streets of Saigon, January 1, 1967
On a Motorbike Built for one: Vietnamese father loads his five youngsters on his motorcycle and sets out for a spin over the streets of Saigon, January 1, 1967

On a Motorbike Built for one: Vietnamese father loads his five youngsters on his motorcycle and sets out for a spin over the streets of Saigon, January 1, 1967

Maker
Date1/1/1967
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions8-5/8 x 6(?) inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
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Object number2024.277
Status
Not on view
Refugees Flee From North Vietnamese: Scores of refugees pour out of the Tri Tam district town of Khiem Hanh on Thursday, March 13th, 1975, southward to South Vietnamese government lines. The town, 40 miles, northwest of Saigon, was overrun by North Vietnamese on Wednesday
Refugees Flee From North Vietnamese: Scores of refugees pour out of the Tri Tam district town of Khiem Hanh on Thursday, March 13th, 1975, southward to South Vietnamese government lines. The town, 40 miles, northwest of Saigon, was overrun by North Vietnamese on Wednesday
Dang Van Phuoc
3/13/1975
Flushed From The Swamp: South Vietnamese soldiers bind a Vietcong guerrilla preparatory to questioning after he was flushed from a Mekong River Delta swamp 120 miles southwest of Saigon on August 17, 1966. Troops of the 9th division, borne by U.S. Helicopters, were on a search and destroy operation when they located some guerrillas who were trying to hide their weapons in the swamp
Flushed From The Swamp: South Vietnamese soldiers bind a Vietcong guerrilla preparatory to questioning after he was flushed from a Mekong River Delta swamp 120 miles southwest of Saigon on August 17, 1966. Troops of the 9th division, borne by U.S. Helicopters, were on a search and destroy operation when they located some guerrillas who were trying to hide their weapons in the swamp
Dang Van Phuoc
8/17/1966
Communist Missile Site Near Hanoi: U.S. Air Force released this picture in Saigon today taken by a reconnaissance pilot 25 miles northwest of Hanoi. The Air Force says it shows a communist missile site, 700 feet by 450 feet in the area, containing six launching pads with five SAM (surface-to-air) missiles visible. The U.S. Command in Saigon disclosed that 30 American planes have been downed by Soviet-built SAM missiles over North Vietnam in the last year and a half, Hanoi, January 2, 1967
Communist Missile Site Near Hanoi: U.S. Air Force released this picture in Saigon today taken by a reconnaissance pilot 25 miles northwest of Hanoi. The Air Force says it shows a communist missile site, 700 feet by 450 feet in the area, containing six launching pads with five SAM (surface-to-air) missiles visible. The U.S. Command in Saigon disclosed that 30 American planes have been downed by Soviet-built SAM missiles over North Vietnam in the last year and a half, Hanoi, January 2, 1967
Unknown Artist
1/2/1967
Tunnel Rat: Sergeant Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, emerges from Viet Cong tunnel holding his silencer-equipped revolver with which he fired at guerrillas scurrying ahead of him underground. Payne and others of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade propped the massive tunnel in Hobo Woods, South Vietnam, and found detailed maps and plans of the enemy. The infantrymen who explored the complex are known as "tunnel rats." They were called out of the tunnels today and nauseating gas was pumped in, January 21, 1967
Tunnel Rat: Sergeant Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, emerges from Viet Cong tunnel holding his silencer-equipped revolver with which he fired at guerrillas scurrying ahead of him underground. Payne and others of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade propped the massive tunnel in Hobo Woods, South Vietnam, and found detailed maps and plans of the enemy. The infantrymen who explored the complex are known as "tunnel rats." They were called out of the tunnels today and nauseating gas was pumped in, January 21, 1967
Unknown Artist
1/21/1967
Happiness in a New Country: A Vietnamese youngster, accompanied by his mother, shouts for joy after leaving a chartered airplane at Travis Air Force Base, California, following their evacuation from Vietnam, April 22, 1975
Happiness in a New Country: A Vietnamese youngster, accompanied by his mother, shouts for joy after leaving a chartered airplane at Travis Air Force Base, California, following their evacuation from Vietnam, April 22, 1975
Unknown Artist
4/22/1975
Emotions Take Over: Army Private Ronald Lockman, 23, of Philadelphia, hugs his mother, Mrs. Vivan Williams, during emotional press conference following his conviction and sentencing at San Francisco’s Presidio. Lockman was convicted of refusing to obey orders to go to Vietnam, and was sentenced to two and a half years at hard labor, November 1967
Emotions Take Over: Army Private Ronald Lockman, 23, of Philadelphia, hugs his mother, Mrs. Vivan Williams, during emotional press conference following his conviction and sentencing at San Francisco’s Presidio. Lockman was convicted of refusing to obey orders to go to Vietnam, and was sentenced to two and a half years at hard labor, November 1967
Slava Veder
11/1/1967
To The Victor: Associated Press Photographer Nick Ut gets a kiss of congratulations from newswoman Edie Lederer in Saigon, May 8, 1973, after it was announced that Ut had won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. The 22-year-old Vietnamese photographer won the prize for his picture of a young Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack
To The Victor: Associated Press Photographer Nick Ut gets a kiss of congratulations from newswoman Edie Lederer in Saigon, May 8, 1973, after it was announced that Ut had won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. The 22-year-old Vietnamese photographer won the prize for his picture of a young Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack
Neal Ulevich
5/8/1973
The Old and the New: young Iranian arrives aboard his Japanese-made motorbike to visit his relative at compound north of Gonbad. The Turkoman nomadic tribesmen live in a lifestyle quite unlike their younger contemporaries, August 20, 1971
The Old and the New: young Iranian arrives aboard his Japanese-made motorbike to visit his relative at compound north of Gonbad. The Turkoman nomadic tribesmen live in a lifestyle quite unlike their younger contemporaries, August 20, 1971
Horst Faas
8/20/1971
President for Life: President "Papa Doc" Duvalier of Haiti sits on top steps of Palace in Port au Prince, surrounded by his guards. Occasion was his third anniversary as president for life of the Caribbean negro nation. Duvalier has just emerged from another Haitian crisis and observers see no end soon to his despotic rule, June 1967
President for Life: President "Papa Doc" Duvalier of Haiti sits on top steps of Palace in Port au Prince, surrounded by his guards. Occasion was his third anniversary as president for life of the Caribbean negro nation. Duvalier has just emerged from another Haitian crisis and observers see no end soon to his despotic rule, June 1967
Eddie Adams
6/1/1967
Says His Brother Is The Boss: Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, is pictured today during news interview in Saigon. Nhu said he has no political ambitions and that his brother is boss of his country. Nhu and the president both expressed hope for a quick return to normalcy from South Vietnam’s political-religious crisis. Both forecast an improvement in strained relations with the U.S., September 5, 1963
Says His Brother Is The Boss: Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, is pictured today during news interview in Saigon. Nhu said he has no political ambitions and that his brother is boss of his country. Nhu and the president both expressed hope for a quick return to normalcy from South Vietnam’s political-religious crisis. Both forecast an improvement in strained relations with the U.S., September 5, 1963
Horst Faas
9/5/1963
COBRA Pilot: Captain Robert Shadoan surveys bomb cratered landscape near Bien Hoa, over a region infiltrated by North Vietnamese recently. Shadoan was flying his sleek Cobra helicopter gunship on a test flight. The gunship’s rocket pods are shown at right, Vietnam, November 20, 1972
COBRA Pilot: Captain Robert Shadoan surveys bomb cratered landscape near Bien Hoa, over a region infiltrated by North Vietnamese recently. Shadoan was flying his sleek Cobra helicopter gunship on a test flight. The gunship’s rocket pods are shown at right, Vietnam, November 20, 1972
Neal Ulevich
11/20/1972
A U.S. marine, center, stands atop his post, a sandbagged bunker, as he watches clouds of black smoke rise at the marine base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, during a North Vietnamese artillery barrage. The marines have constructed a system of deep trenches and fortified bunkers, topped with sandbags, empty shell casings, and even timber, to withstand the daily bombardment, February 1968
A U.S. marine, center, stands atop his post, a sandbagged bunker, as he watches clouds of black smoke rise at the marine base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, during a North Vietnamese artillery barrage. The marines have constructed a system of deep trenches and fortified bunkers, topped with sandbags, empty shell casings, and even timber, to withstand the daily bombardment, February 1968
Unknown Artist
2/1/1968