Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190107:05:18:00
House to retake the city. a vicious three-and-a-half-week-long battle. eventually artillery and air support were called in. the city was saved. and of course, largely destroyed in the saving. the civilian population caught in the crossfire were equally devastated. the north vietnamese, to their enduring shame, had, while controlling the city, rounded up anyone seen as a potential enemy and either disappeared them away into unknown prisons, or killed them outright. most notoriously, when they massacred almost 3,000 people, rolling them, many of them still alive, into mass graves in and around h...