Bernard Fall killed by mine in South Vietnam
Writer and historian Bernard B.Fall is killed by a Viet Cong mine while accompanying a U.S.Marine patrol along the seacoast about 14 miles northwest of Hue on a road known as the Street Without Joy (which Fall had used for the title of one of his books about the war).
A professor of international relations at Howard University in Washington D.C.Fall was a French citizen and noted expert on the war in Vietnam.He was killed while gathering material for his eighth book.
A U.S.Marine photographer was also killed.
