April 1975. Saigon is falling. The North Vietnamese army is closing in. In the chaos, thousands of south Vietnamese orphan kids wonder if they will survive. Jeff Gahr is one of those orphans. His ...

In a place where white teeth signify savagery and close to 30 percent of its population lives in poverty, Vietnam has a new story to tell. Documentary photographer David Stone, an ASU alumnus, spent ...

Kimberly Mitchell has spent her life dedicated to the United States, the country she credits with giving her life. But it started in the middle of war. “My mother had been killed during the Vietnam ...

Mia Oddo survived a deadly plane crash in Operation Babylift because of missing paperwork. Adopted from Vietnam as an infant, Oddo is now seeking to reconnect with her birth family. She has launched a ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – A Catholic priest in Vietnam was beaten unconscious by a group of “thugs” following the destruction of a house he intended to turn into an orphanage, the church said in a ...

The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam War as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Angelina Jolie today adopted a 3-year-old boy she picked up at an orphanage in southern Vietnam earlier in the day, greeting him with a kiss and a hug. Nguyen Van Trung, ...

An American woman visiting the Vietnamese orphanage she was adopted from got the shock of a lifetime when a chance meeting led to her reuniting with her biological family. Melissa Brozier, from ...

BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — By some estimates, 20,000 Vietnamese orphans were adopted by families all over the world by the end of the Vietnam war 50 years ago. Joie Lê is one of those adoptees. In 1973, ...

Schrade was an orphan in Vietnam who escaped the country during the Vietnam War after being rescued from being adrift at sea for days. Sam Schrade spent the first years of his life in a Vietnamese ...

(NEXSTAR) — It is one of the most tragic stories from the final days of the Vietnam War. A cargo plane loaded with young Vietnamese orphans crashed in a rice field just outside Saigon 50 years ago.