Who did François Sully work for in Sep 1946?
François Sully François Sully ( 1927-1971 ) was a French journalist and photographer best known for his work during the Vietnam War . Sully was one of the earliest journalists to cover the Vietnam War and spent 24 years in Indochina . At the time of his death in a command helicopter crash near the Cambodian border , he was viewed as the dean of the Saigon press corps . Sully was born in 1927 or 1928 in France and fought against the Nazis in the French Resistance as a teenager and was wounded on his seventeenth birthday in Paris . After the liberation of Paris he enlisted in the French Army , fought the Nazis in Germany and then volunteered for the French Expeditionary Forces , arriving in Saigon when the Japanese surrendered in 1945 . Discharged in Saigon , Sully tried his hand as a tea planter and rancher before turning to journalism . In 1947 he joined Sud-Est Asiatique , a now defunct French magazine , working for them until 1953 . He was assigned to cover the battle of Dien Bien Phu by Time-Life . He escaped from behind the Viet Minh lines . In 1959 he joined United Press International ( UPI ) . He wrote articles for Time magazine and his photographs were carried by Black Star until he joined Newsweek in early 1961 . In March 1962 , Sully was to be expelled from South Vietnam by President Ngo Dinh Diem , egged on by Madame Nhu , as his reporting was deemed helpful to the enemy . Unofficially , Diem intended the expulsion to serve as a warning to all journalists reporting the failings of his U.S.-assisted war against the Viet Cong . The other journalist on the expulsion list was Homer Bigart of the New York Times . Diem backed down after the U.S . Mission explained that expulsion would only worsen an already bad relationship with the press . Five months later , however , in August 1962 , Sully was sent packing after some seventeen years in Indochina . The Newsweek issue of August 20 , 1962 carried a long article by Sully Viet Nam : The Unpleasant Truth . His expulsion became a major political affair between Saigon and Washington . Sully departed Saigon on September 9 , with most of the press corps at the airfield in a show of solidarity . After his expulsion Sully proceeded to Harvard where he put in a year at the Nieman Foundation and worked in bordering countries to Vietnam . He returned to the Newsweek bureau in Saigon after the November 1963 Coup and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem . During his work as Newsweeks Saigon Bureau Chief , Sully also wrote for a number of other newsmagazines including The Nation and The New Republic . In 1967 and 1968 , Sully wrote articles for McGraw-Hills business-reporting service World News which distributed them to Business Week , Medical World News , Engineering News Record , and other publications . In addition to writing news stories and taking photographs , Sully wrote Age of the Guerrilla : The New Warfare ( New York : Parents Magazine Press , 1968 ; reprinted by Avon , 1970 ) and compiled and edited We the Vietnamese : Voices from Vietnam ( New York : Praeger , 1971 ) . Sully was the insiders insider amongst the press corps in Vietnam . His sources were numerous inside the Viet Minh and Viet Cong , inside the Palace in Saigon and at grassroots levels in every province in the North and South . He spoke several languages and was fluent in French , English , Vietnamese and Lao . Sully died in late February 1971 . On 23 February 1971 he was aboard the command helicopter of General Do Cao Tri ( the Patton of the Parrots Beak ) as it turned west towards Cambodia . The helicopter had lifted off from Tay Ninh airstrip and was heading towards a firebase just across the Vietnam-Cambodia border . As the helicopter was nearing its destination it burst in flames . Sully alone leaped from the burning craft and plunged to the ground , all others died in the crash . Sully died from injuries suffered in the fall at Long Binh hospital . Sully was buried in Mac Dinh Chi Cemetery in Saigon . He left his insurance policy of 18 million piasters ( equivalent to $45,000 at February , 1971 exchange rates ) to Vietnamese orphans .