François Sully

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Note: The "François Sully" credited in The Foreman Went to France (1942) was British character actor Francis L. Sullivan.[1]
François Sully
Sully in 1965
Born(1927-08-27)27 August 1927
Paris, France
Died24 February 1971(1971-02-24) (aged 43)
Long Bình, South Vietnam
NationalityFrench
OccupationJournalist

François Sully (1927–1971) was a French

Saigon
press corps.

Life

Sully was born on 27 August 1927 in

Time-Life. He escaped from behind the Viet Minh lines. In 1959 he joined United Press International (UPI). He wrote articles for Time magazine and his photographs were carried by Black Star until he joined Newsweek
in early 1961.

In March 1962, Sully was to be expelled from

November 1963 Coup and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
.

During his work as Newsweek's Saigon Bureau Chief, Sully also wrote for a number of other newsmagazines including

Engineering News Record
, and other publications. In addition to writing news stories and taking photographs, Sully wrote Age of the Guerrilla: The New Warfare (New York: Parent's Magazine Press, 1968; reprinted by Avon, 1970) and compiled and edited We the Vietnamese: Voices from Vietnam (New York: Praeger, 1971).

Sully was the insider's insider amongst the press corps in Vietnam. His sources were numerous inside the

Palace in Saigon and at grassroots levels in every province in the North and South. He spoke several languages and was fluent in French, English, Vietnamese and Lao
.

Sully died in late February 1971. On 23 February 1971 he was aboard the command helicopter of General

piasters (equivalent to $45,000 at February, 1971 exchange rates) to Vietnamese orphans.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ ""The Foreman Went to France"". Archived from the original on 2009-03-21. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  2. ISBN 0939526107
    .
  3. ^ "The Death of a Fighting General | TIME". 2007-04-29. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
  4. ^ "Tet and remembrance of the dead", International Herald Tribune, February 28, 2005

Further reading

External links
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