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WWL-TV: New Exhibit Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon
April 30, 2025
WWL-TV’s Brandon Walker sat down with senior historian Mark Cave to discuss the cultural importance of HNOC‘s new “Making It Home” exhibition.
“You realize that [Vietnamese refugees] spent their whole life trying to find a home. When they were children they grew up in Catholic villages in North Vietnam, they were forced to leave when they partitioned the country in 1954, and they eventually had to leave again in ‘75 when Saigon fell . . . . but they found a home in New Orleans.”
Mark Cave, HNOC senior historian
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Elders of the Vietnamese community describe their journey to a new country 50 years ago.
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