This is great, a serious news show without any Hollywood pretensions. The presenter breezes through tongue-tying Vietnamese names like it's his first language. Try finding that kind of journalistic talent today! I'm 54, and this is a refreshing little gem to watch. Thank you so much for posting.
Metro Promise thank you very much. We did get used to Vietnamese names pretty fast because we (I) did radio news 6 times per day as well. The really fun names were from Thailand. Try this one - Thanom Kittakachorn. (Former prime minister) I loved saying his last name, and yes, I practiced. Two of my daughters are from Thailand too. Very very different names! 😊 Best wishes, Bob Morecook
+Robert Morecook Thank you for your service and thank you preserving this amazing piece of history!! This is amazing to view on youtube over 40 years later! Thank you for uploading this!
Thank you for showing this news.I`m a 24 year vet and missed going by a couple of years.I joined the army the day I turned 17,I watched about nam on the news growing up.Thank you for your service Sir.David USAF RET................
As a former journalist, I can tell you that the editing of this broadcast is outstanding. No oops we'll get back to that or awkward silent moments. Seamless and smooth, outstanding, especially considering this was in '73.
Thank you Malcolm. It means a lot. I was reading paper copy too....no teleprompter. Like many young men I was inspired by the news delivery of Walter Cronkite and wanted and strived for an authoritative, serious yet genuine tone. The entire production was a team effort of dedicated, highly competent, technicians and enlisted journalists. I was privileged to be part of the team.
You must've had a photographic memory as well. I noticed your eye contact with the camera ( viewing audience) was almost constant, you only briefly would glance at your copy and maintained excellent viewer eye contact. As a former RTF (radio, TV, film) student, I know that's not easy to do. Job well done!
@@malcolmmarshall5946 Thank you very much. Of course I would have read the copy silently once, perhaps aloud once as practice, but not usually. In the morning I read radio news about five times, so unless there was breaking news I knew the stories well. It all aided me. I also produced the news as well. We used almost exclusively AP radio copy plus video from cbs and abc news (4 days old - I would review both network newscasts to find stories that were not out of date - then we would snip the desired content ). Most of all I told myself I was speaking directly to an individual viewer, and this kept my eye contact with the camera lens regular. The last 15 months I have been teaching my community college classes from home computer. The earlier experiences have made a positive contribution to my work there. Thank you for your kind words. It was a wonderful experience in my life. 😊🇺🇸❤️🌈 Bob
@@martialmusic You're welcome Robert. I remember as a journalist in the 70s, when interviewing a person, tape recorders were forbidden, I had to devise my own personal "shorthand" style, that only I could make sense of. Drop all one two or three letter words, make a mental note of "Ooh, I gotta remember that comment!" All the while trying to be polite and respectful to my interview subject, regardless of my own opinions! A different era, wouldn't you say?😃 Anyway, I ended up being in Information Technology, but my journalism training served me well all my life (job interviews, casual encounters, even family and personal relationship situations). Sorry for rambling on, and BTW this February 1973 video is saved in my "favorites' and I watch it about once or twice a month because I find it so enjoyable. Take care Robert and thank you once again for brightening my world with this video.
@@malcolmmarshall5946 hi well I must admit I am enormously flattered that you like it so much! I’m glad your journalism training paid off for you. After my Army time I went to graduate school in psychology. After turning in my first research paper my professor asked me to go to lunch with him. Casually he eventually mentioned that it had a journalist style to it. (Short clear sentences. Short paragraphs.) when I told him i had learned to write that way in Army journalism school. He then visibly relaxed. He never said it, but I think he suspected me of plagiarism. 😊 I was a little offended, but secretly pleased that (I think) he liked it.
Hi sorry to be so long writing. Just saw this! I postail mailed my tape to an army friend at a public affairs office in the US who saved the tape for me.
As a kid I use to watch and listen to FEN broadcasts when in Japan. The work you folks did was very important to the troops and appreciated. As a retired military man myself I know this first hand now. Thank you all very much for your service to the United States.
I really enjoyed this, some distant memories. First I have seen AFVN, not exactly what I expected-it was very well done. The terrorist attacks in the USA-the firebomb in Miami, the assassination of Police Officers in NYC-looks like we have not changed all that much. The sports were good. I remember Bert Jones at LSU-he was great."Pistol Pete Maravich-maybe the greatest basketball player ever. UCLA wins streak will never be equalled. Bert Jones I believe he was also a Major League pitching prospect, and was highly touted. The assassination attempt of Sen. Stennis from MS had escaped me.I must check to see if he made it through. Plenty of violence in the good ole USA just in case Nam was too hot. Thanks for the upload!
thanks for this video; brings back a lot of memories. You deliver the news in a professional way-not like todays so-called journalists. Hope all is well with you these many years after Nam.
Excellent, back when news shows really did focus on news and featured well trained journalists that were not the showbiz type you see today. I got my associate's in journalism in '79, and enjoyed watching this very much, thanks for posting this.
@11 Ralph Nader wow even then very passionate about putting the right policies in place. This video is nothing short of amazing and why I love TH-cam, thanks for putting it up it gives a clear picture of what was going down towards the end of the Vietnam War era and the changes the US went through.
I was on the other side of the SCS in the PI that day. The previous ten months of the Easter Offensive, March '72 to January '73, saw the worst fighting of that 30-year war. The whole house of cards collapsed two years later.
I was just finishing up my AIT at Fort Devens Massachusetts. I was originally going to be sent to Vietnam, then my orders were cancelled and I PCS'ed to Germany. 26-years later I retired from the Army.
@flybynightvideo Hi Yes duh it's me! There was very little voice training in the early 70s. Thanks for the compliment. I was brought up in the midwest [hence a mid-west accent], sang in choirs and choruses [emphasis on prononuciation], and listened to radio and tv news religiously as a teen and young man. So -- I was trying -- very hard! :-) best wishes, Bob M
DYK...the gentleman at 5:01, USAF MGN Daniel (Chappie) James, is a historical figure...later, he became the first African-American four star general (GEN) in the US Military. For those unfamiliar with rank: MGN-Major General=2 stars, GEN-General=4 stars.
Wow, a day in the life... I was two years old then. I am a USAF vet during Shield/Storm, but never went down range. A lot of the senior NCO's and a few officers (group commander included) were vets of Vietnam and the stories they would tell me were pretty wild.
Sp. Morecock reported on so much that I remember, though I was a whopping 9 years old. I remember the Chatterbox Cafe explosion. And if I might ask Mr. Morecock, when you look at this now, and your matter-of-fact recitation of the news about Ellsburg that day, aren't you amazed at how that story would turn in just a little over a year from then? The hearings around Watergate were a constant presence in my house until the whole thing was over. Oh, and I always envied you guys and the khaki uniforms. By the time I got there, they weren't being issued anymore. They looked so much lighter than even the summer-modified Class "A."
Samuel L. Bronkowitz hi Samuel it was indeed an amazing time to be alive, to follow the end of the war and then months later to see Nixon gone. Yes I loved the look of the khaki uniforms too. But they had to be starched and ironed, so practicality was finally overcome by utility. Darn. I still have one khaki uniform (but no greens) that I wear on veterans day. 😊🇺🇸 (yes there was laundry service. We did not have to wash, starch, and iron them ourselves.)
The last of the troops did not leave till March 73. So we were covering the shut down of the war for the remaining thousands of troops. [though not hundreds of thousands] After the last 'official troops' left in Mar 73 there WERE still somel troops left that were assigned to the embassy as part of a Military Equipment Delivery Team [like ammo resupply to the S Vietnamese Army] After march 73 only FM Radio remained. Pacific Architects & Engineers ran it as American Radio Service Bob Morecock
It's a long story. But yes it was on 2 inch video tape, then converted to betamax and VHS and from VHS to DVD then run through a free DVD processing program to convert it to AVI Bob M
American Forces Radio and Television Service provides two types of news info to the troops. News from back home - unedited - typically reading wire service material. In Vietnam we read AP Associated Press [you would think Reuters], ABC, CBS, Mutual News and a few others.The second type of info is "Command Information" -- what the commander wants the troops to know about. Since there are no commercials on American military radio and tv these typically take the form of Public Service Announcements. One frequently heard in Vietnam was "Always give your M16 rifle a light lube - and frequently.” A funny one was "Never drive your tank down a railroad track" Just for fun -- you can go hear many at th-cam.com/video/H18xp2snJSg/w-d-xo.html
THVN was next door to AFVN. THVN was the civilian Vietnamese station during the Vietnam War. It probably became HTV. The two campuses appear to have been physically joined now. AFVN was disestablished in March 1973 and the equipment sent to Korea.
Yes. All USA government products are in the public domain. An appropriate reference to the original product and it’s location is always appropriate. That is me doing the news.
I like how the news cast uses an instrumental song by Neil Diamond. I also saw this same theme being used by KOB-TV (ABC affiliate in Albuquerque NM). Search here on youtube for "kob 1978" for the intro to their news cast.
The range was up to 83 on UHF (in US). As the analog to digital TV transition went on, higher frequencies were taken from stations to cell to wireless phone, internet, etc. services. I’d assume other countries worked the same way.
I taught high school psychology on closed circuit tv near houston for a couple of years is all. But I did achieve my goal of becoming a psychologist. Now I teach at a community college, often online and live, which is similar. Thanks for asking. 😊
A.F.R.S. Armed Forces Radio/TV Network Kind of reminds me how peace law and order will be restored in the United States by the US military quite similar to Vietnam remember it was a police action
This broadcast is now over 50 years old. Being able to find this kind of content on TH-cam for free will never cease to amaze me.
This is great, a serious news show without any Hollywood pretensions. The presenter breezes through tongue-tying Vietnamese names like it's his first language. Try finding that kind of journalistic talent today! I'm 54, and this is a refreshing little gem to watch. Thank you so much for posting.
Metro Promise thank you very much. We did get used to Vietnamese names pretty fast because we (I) did radio news 6 times per day as well. The really fun names were from Thailand. Try this one - Thanom Kittakachorn. (Former prime minister) I loved saying his last name, and yes, I practiced. Two of my daughters are from Thailand too. Very very different names! 😊 Best wishes, Bob Morecook
wow this is wild I served in nam in 71/72 I remember afvn thanks for the post,and goooooooood morning Vietnam ! rip Robin Williams you are missed.
We were all sad when Williams died! 😊🇺🇸🌈
Well done, Specialist Morecock. Thank you for your service.
thank you for uploading this video！
@@Jim_Evan you are welcome
Wow, great archive footage. I hope there’s more historical broadcasts ahead
There is one other 30 minute broadcast around a few shorter ones. Lots of radio.
Jerry Elliot was my First Sergeant in Panama. Amazing to see him here. Thank you.
Hi east side. I have been looking for him for years. Do you have contact info on him? What years did yo7 work with him? Thanks!
+Robert Morecook Thank you for your service and thank you preserving this amazing piece of history!! This is amazing to view on youtube over 40 years later! Thank you for uploading this!
there are tv and radio newscasts by others that i have posted as well. I was one of many people who got to serve at a fine outfit.
Thank you for showing this news.I`m a 24 year vet and missed going by a couple of years.I joined the army the day I turned 17,I watched about nam on the news growing up.Thank you for your service Sir.David USAF RET................
As a former journalist, I can tell you that the editing of this broadcast is outstanding. No oops we'll get back to that or awkward silent moments. Seamless and smooth, outstanding, especially considering this was in '73.
Thank you Malcolm. It means a lot. I was reading paper copy too....no teleprompter. Like many young men I was inspired by the news delivery of Walter Cronkite and wanted and strived for an authoritative, serious yet genuine tone. The entire production was a team effort of dedicated, highly competent, technicians and enlisted journalists. I was privileged to be part of the team.
You must've had a photographic memory as well. I noticed your eye contact with the camera ( viewing audience) was almost constant, you only briefly would glance at your copy and maintained excellent viewer eye contact. As a former RTF (radio, TV, film) student, I know that's not easy to do. Job well done!
@@malcolmmarshall5946 Thank you very much. Of course I would have read the copy silently once, perhaps aloud once as practice, but not usually. In the morning I read radio news about five times, so unless there was breaking news I knew the stories well. It all aided me. I also produced the news as well. We used almost exclusively AP radio copy plus video from cbs and abc news (4 days old - I would review both network newscasts to find stories that were not out of date - then we would snip the desired content ). Most of all I told myself I was speaking directly to an individual viewer, and this kept my eye contact with the camera lens regular. The last 15 months I have been teaching my community college classes from home computer. The earlier experiences have made a positive contribution to my work there. Thank you for your kind words. It was a wonderful experience in my life. 😊🇺🇸❤️🌈 Bob
@@martialmusic You're welcome Robert. I remember as a journalist in the 70s, when interviewing a person, tape recorders were forbidden, I had to devise my own personal "shorthand" style, that only I could make sense of. Drop all one two or three letter words, make a mental note of "Ooh, I gotta remember that comment!" All the while trying to be polite and respectful to my interview subject, regardless of my own opinions! A different era, wouldn't you say?😃 Anyway, I ended up being in Information Technology, but my journalism training served me well all my life (job interviews, casual encounters, even family and personal relationship situations). Sorry for rambling on, and BTW this February 1973 video is saved in my "favorites' and I watch it about once or twice a month because I find it so enjoyable. Take care Robert and thank you once again for brightening my world with this video.
@@malcolmmarshall5946 hi well I must admit I am enormously flattered that you like it so much! I’m glad your journalism training paid off for you. After my Army time I went to graduate school in psychology. After turning in my first research paper my professor asked me to go to lunch with him. Casually he eventually mentioned that it had a journalist style to it. (Short clear sentences. Short paragraphs.) when I told him i had learned to write that way in Army journalism school. He then visibly relaxed. He never said it, but I think he suspected me of plagiarism. 😊 I was a little offended, but secretly pleased that (I think) he liked it.
Hi sorry to be so long writing. Just saw this! I postail mailed my tape to an army friend at a public affairs office in the US who saved the tape for me.
As a kid I use to watch and listen to FEN broadcasts when in Japan. The work you folks did was very important to the troops and appreciated. As a retired military man myself I know this first hand now. Thank you all very much for your service to the United States.
thanks from all us vets, especially American Forces Vietnam Network
Thanks for posting
I really enjoyed this, some distant memories. First I have seen AFVN, not exactly what I expected-it was very well done. The terrorist attacks in the USA-the firebomb in Miami, the assassination of Police Officers in NYC-looks like we have not changed all that much. The sports were good. I remember Bert Jones at LSU-he was great."Pistol Pete Maravich-maybe the greatest basketball player ever. UCLA wins streak will never be equalled. Bert Jones I believe he was also a Major League pitching prospect, and was highly touted. The assassination attempt of Sen. Stennis from MS had escaped me.I must check to see if he made it through. Plenty of violence in the good ole USA just in case Nam was too hot. Thanks for the upload!
thanks for this video; brings back a lot of memories. You deliver the news in a professional way-not like todays so-called journalists. Hope all is well with you these many years after Nam.
Jim Burford thank you very much. I am now a psychologist and teach at a community college. Welcome home to you, also.
thanks to you, also!
Thank you...on behalf of all AFVN veterans
God Bless ALL the Vets. From a Marine of the early '80's.
Excellent, back when news shows really did focus on news and featured well trained journalists that were not the showbiz type you see today. I got my associate's in journalism in '79, and enjoyed watching this very much, thanks for posting this.
Thanks for the kind words. I got my journalism training in the Army through DINFOS the defense information school. It was a great little school
@11 Ralph Nader wow even then very passionate about putting the right policies in place. This video is nothing short of amazing and why I love TH-cam, thanks for putting it up it gives a clear picture of what was going down towards the end of the Vietnam War era and the changes the US went through.
Wilhelm Hesse I am glad you found this valuable.
I was on the other side of the SCS in the PI that day. The previous ten months of the Easter Offensive, March '72 to January '73, saw the worst fighting of that 30-year war. The whole house of cards collapsed two years later.
John Pritchard welcome home!
Thank you, John.
@Honkynees Thank You. IK am 64 years old nwo and you are the only person who ever said thank you to me for doing this. Yours turly, Bob Morecook
And now I am 77 😀
I was just finishing up my AIT at Fort Devens Massachusetts. I was originally going to be sent to Vietnam, then my orders were cancelled and I PCS'ed to Germany. 26-years later I retired from the Army.
I am glad you didn't have to go to Vietnam. I was a little too young at the time.
Thank you for this video. Very interesting and informative. Thank you for your service.
+Mark Jasek You are welcome. I was one of many people who served as military broadcast and print journalists during the Vietnam War.
@flybynightvideo Hi Yes duh it's me! There was very little voice training in the early 70s. Thanks for the compliment. I was brought up in the midwest [hence a mid-west accent], sang in choirs and choruses [emphasis on prononuciation], and listened to radio and tv news religiously as a teen and young man. So -- I was trying -- very hard! :-) best wishes, Bob M
@rmorecook: I too must say thank you, both for preserving this bit of history, and your service.
DYK...the gentleman at 5:01, USAF MGN Daniel (Chappie) James, is a historical figure...later, he became the first African-American four star general (GEN) in the US Military. For those unfamiliar with rank: MGN-Major General=2 stars, GEN-General=4 stars.
Wow, a day in the life... I was two years old then. I am a USAF vet during Shield/Storm, but never went down range. A lot of the senior NCO's and a few officers (group commander included) were vets of Vietnam and the stories they would tell me were pretty wild.
Sp. Morecock reported on so much that I remember, though I was a whopping 9 years old. I remember the Chatterbox Cafe explosion. And if I might ask Mr. Morecock, when you look at this now, and your matter-of-fact recitation of the news about Ellsburg that day, aren't you amazed at how that story would turn in just a little over a year from then? The hearings around Watergate were a constant presence in my house until the whole thing was over.
Oh, and I always envied you guys and the khaki uniforms. By the time I got there, they weren't being issued anymore. They looked so much lighter than even the summer-modified Class "A."
Samuel L. Bronkowitz hi Samuel it was indeed an amazing time to be alive, to follow the end of the war and then months later to see Nixon gone. Yes I loved the look of the khaki uniforms too. But they had to be starched and ironed, so practicality was finally overcome by utility. Darn. I still have one khaki uniform (but no greens) that I wear on veterans day. 😊🇺🇸 (yes there was laundry service. We did not have to wash, starch, and iron them ourselves.)
And khaki was my favorite uniform. I am 77 now and can still get in my remaining one.
What a great name you have: Bob Morecock! The best
lol thanks later i changed it to morecoOk though
sometimes Sgt Michael Kumm did the sports. Think about it.
With a name like that, you have to be in another line of work 😉
@NickB1967 glad you liked the video If you search on AFVN you will find a few more TV newscasts
What year did the broadcast start?
@jvolstad Thanks for the comment. Welcome home Brother
Hubert Humphrey, at 11:32, very impressed with him, a smart guy, probably would've been a fine President.
The last of the troops did not leave till March 73. So we were covering the shut down of the war for the remaining thousands of troops. [though not hundreds of thousands] After the last 'official troops' left in Mar 73 there WERE still somel troops left that were assigned to the embassy as part of a Military Equipment Delivery Team [like ammo resupply to the S Vietnamese Army] After march 73 only FM Radio remained. Pacific Architects & Engineers ran it as American Radio Service Bob Morecock
It's a long story. But yes it was on 2 inch video tape, then converted to betamax and VHS and from VHS to DVD then run through a free DVD processing program to convert it to AVI Bob M
@robert morecook Did you write a book about your experience in Vietnam?
Hi Perry I wrote no book thanks for asking. Bob Morecook
American Forces Radio and Television Service provides two types of news info to the troops. News from back home - unedited - typically reading wire service material. In Vietnam we read AP Associated Press [you would think Reuters], ABC, CBS, Mutual News and a few others.The second type of info is "Command Information" -- what the commander wants the troops to know about. Since there are no commercials on American military radio and tv these typically take the form of Public Service Announcements. One frequently heard in Vietnam was "Always give your M16 rifle a light lube - and frequently.” A funny one was "Never drive your tank down a railroad track" Just for fun -- you can go hear many at th-cam.com/video/H18xp2snJSg/w-d-xo.html
That's precursor of HTV7, right?
THVN was next door to AFVN. THVN was the civilian Vietnamese station during the Vietnam War. It probably became HTV. The two campuses appear to have been physically joined now. AFVN was disestablished in March 1973 and the equipment sent to Korea.
@@martialmusic Ok thanks!
Are this video free to use
Yes. All USA government products are in the public domain. An appropriate reference to the original product and it’s location is always appropriate. That is me doing the news.
who were they broadcasting too at this point with all the troops gone? Were there a lot of civilians left?
I like how the news cast uses an instrumental song by Neil Diamond. I also saw this same theme being used by KOB-TV (ABC affiliate in Albuquerque NM). Search here on youtube for "kob 1978" for the intro to their news cast.
Channel 78? Doesn't the TV channel range end at channel 69?
The range was up to 83 on UHF (in US). As the analog to digital TV transition went on, higher frequencies were taken from stations to cell to wireless phone, internet, etc. services. I’d assume other countries worked the same way.
1973, and this is still black and white. Or is that just the recording?
The broadcast was in black and white. After all, it was a war zone! In Europe military broadcasting had gone to color, but not elsewhere.
@@martialmusic yeah, i still remember that there are only b/ w channels in Vietnam.
Nguyễn Thị Khuyên it was a long time ago 😊
Saigon
i ets's this day at travis. just back from 366 days in rvn. never saw this afvn network, who had a tv????
8:13 I wonder if that was from the USS Kitty Hawk.
Too long ago…I don’t remember!
the rabies warning is creepy.
Standard warning throughout Viet Nam.
@@donaldkgarman296 Is that a fact? Thanks.
Did you continue in broadcasting when you returned to civilian life?
I taught high school psychology on closed circuit tv near houston for a couple of years is all. But I did achieve my goal of becoming a psychologist. Now I teach at a community college, often online and live, which is similar. Thanks for asking. 😊
So happy to have found this. I'm just very interested in history. Thank you.
@@paulspy2276 hi Paul I cannot see any pix by you. On Facebook go to AFVN and join the group and post them there. Best wishes Bob
i feel sadness and deperession.
@@lmz1990525 why are you sad and depressed? Why do you share it here? Best wishes, Robert Morecook (I put up this video of me).
A.F.R.S.
Armed Forces Radio/TV Network
Kind of reminds me how peace law and order will be restored in the United States by the US military quite similar to Vietnam remember it was a police action
Love those khaki uniforms. Still have three sets issue to me at BCT Fort Sill July 1977.
And I can still get in mine 🇺🇸
0:10 0:40 AFVN
Channel 11 Saigon Vietnam
Jul 1966 - Dec 1973
Channel 78 Canto Vietnam
Apr 1968 - Nov 1972
Back to the past...
Khai Kiet Tran it was a long time ago, but I remember it like yesterday
"Morecock"? No way...
Google it. There are lots of us. 😊🇺🇸❤️
Love listening and watching these old videos. I've just always felt I missed my time by about 25 years.
@@NASCARCUP22FAN Thanks for stopping by. Bob Morecook
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