News Looking Back on the Fall of Saigon NPR | By Loren Jenkins Published April 30, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 0:00 Thirty years after flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy, on one of the last helicopters out, NPR's Loren Jenkins recalls the last day of the Vietnam War from downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. Copyright 2005 NPR