Fall of Saigon reporter dies at 79Fall of Saigon reporter dies at 79Fall of Saigon reporter dies at 7904.02.1217:54 George Esper, who reported on the fall of Saigon during the last days of the Vietnam war, has died aged 79 after suffering multiple health problems.
An Associated Press reporter for most of his career, Esper refused to join the US evacuation of Saigon in 1975.
The news then ran on the front page of the New York Times.
Esper covered several other major stories for the news agency, including the Jonestown massacre in Guyana in 1978 and the 1991 Gulf War.
He returned to Vietnam in 1993, when he was chosen to open the Associated Press's first post-war Vietnam bureau in Hanoi.
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