Interview with Allan Charles McClellan Maitland

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Description

Object description

British civilian foreign correspondent with Reuters News Agency in GB, Brazil, South Vietnam and Portugal, 1962-1990

Content description

REEL 1 Background in London and Gerrard's Cross, GB, 1931-1950: family; memories of outbreak of Second World War, 3/9/1939; attitude towards war; question of evacuation; memories of end of Second World War, 1945. Aspects of period as officer with 1st Bn Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in GB, Cyprus and Canal Zone, Egypt, 1950-1952: commissioning into Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in GB, 1950; attitude to posting to Cyprus, 1951; posting to Kubir Ferry in Canal Zone in Egypt, autumn 1951; situation in Canal Zone of Egypt and Cyprus; opinion of National Service; problems adjusting to student life at University of Cambridge after national service, Aspects of period as foreign correspondent with Reuters News Agency in GB and Brazil, 1962-1969: employment with Peruvian Corporation in Peru prior to applying to join Reuters; posting to Brazil; description of Reuters News Agency. REEL 2 Continues: changes in nature of Reuters New Agency work from the 1960s; sending journalists into conflict zones; role of 'stringers'. Recollection of period as foreign correspondent with Reuters News Agency in Saigon, South Vietnam and Cambodia, 1969-1971: restriction of Reuters journalists to South Vietnam; situation in South Vietnam; equivalent military rank held to allow journalists to travel with American forces; facilities for Reuters New Agency journalists in Saigon; travelling by helicopter; briefing base at Da Nang; daily press briefings; casualties amongst television crews; effect of media coverage of war on American public opinion; morale amongst American forces; question of American use of 'body counts'; My Lai massacre; character of Republic of South Korea (ROK) troops fighting in South Vietnam; American bombing of Ho Chi Minh Trail; Vietnamese tunnel network. REEL 3 Continues: three month period in Cambodia; dangers to journalists in Cambodia; briefings presided over by Am Rong; situation in Cambodia; impressions of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; occasion accompanying American forces looking for Viet Cong headquarters in South Vietnam; deaths of photojournalists Sean Flynn and Dana Stone in Cambodia, 4/1970; story of how two Reuters New Agency correspondents were killed in ambush during Tet Offensive in Saigon, South Vietnam, 1968; difficulties of transmitting reports out of South Vietnam; other news agencies operating in South Vietnam; status of Reuters News Agency; question of censorship; nature of work in South Vietnam; reaction to sight of 150 Viet Cong dead on arrival in South Vietnam, 1969. REEL 4 Continues: attitude to leaving South Vietnam, 2/1971; story of later difficulties Reuters had in getting a correspondent to Falklands War, 1982. Aspects of period as correspondent with Reuters News Agency in Portugal, 1971-1974: posting to Lisbon, Portugal, 1971; nature of Portuguese revolution, 1974; Portuguese withdrawal from Angola and Mozambique, 1976. Reflections on period with Reuters News Agency, 1962-1990: changes in nature of agency's work; impact of new technology on media; impact of television news; globalised character of Reuters News Agency.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1990 to the present day (production), 1945-1989 (content), 1945-1989 (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Smith, Lyn E (Recorder)
Maitland, Allan Charles McClellan (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 2002-04-03
Dimensions: whole: Duration 110, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 22683

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