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few moments from now. it was here almost exactly 24 hours ago now that a gunman opened fire from the roof of a building about two blocks behind me, killing six people, you can hear the sounds of it right there, wounding 25. it caused hundreds of people to flee the scene. a real moment of sheer terror. you can see actually behind us now some of the chairs that they left behind still littering the scene here. police did find a gun on the roof of that building. ultimately about eight hours later they were able to apprehend someone there y're calling a person of interest, they used the p...

April 14th, 1972, the battle of fire support base charlie. lone american on the base, serving as a senior adviser to the army of the republic of vietnam was major john duffy. they called him dusty cyanide. that was his call name. those days leading up to april 14th, the battalion command post had been destroyed. major duffy had already been twice wounded, refusing evacuation. efforts to resupply the base had failed, and fsb charlie was surrounded by the battalion size element for hours, american gun ships guided took positions. he exposed himself to danger to direct the gun ships' fire and kee...