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Hanoi Hannah

(1931–2016) Radio Personality

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Hanoi Hannah was a radio personality.

Quick Facts About Hanoi Hannah

Born: May 11, 1931
Died: September 30, 2016
Profession: Radio Personality

About Hanoi Hannah

Trịnh Thị Ngọ, also known as Thu Hương and Hanoi Hannah, was a Vietnamese radio personality best known for her work during the Vietnam War, when she made English-language broadcasts for North Vietnam directed at United States troops to demoralise them.

Quotes by Hanoi Hannah

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

Call me

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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

Doors

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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

Gis

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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have…

Attention

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I had to do something for the country.

Country

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We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Advised

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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

Ideas

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American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

Fighting

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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest…

Confused

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How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war,…

Confused

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I am happy with what I've done.

Am

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I put my heart in my work.

Heart

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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

Hanoi

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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

Believe

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I would like to see America some day.

America

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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

Broadcasting

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And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Also

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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

Adversaries

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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Abraham

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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

Gis

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Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and…

Antiwar

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