Hundreds Gather to Celebrate Anniversary of South Vietnam's Defeat

Source: Los Angeles Times

On April 30, 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that "at the Cultural Courtin Little Saigon, hundreds gathered...to mark the 26thanniversary of the fall of South Vietnam. Political and religious leaders took the podium to remember the April 30surrender of the Saigon Government in 1975 and to call for religious freedom andbasic human rights...Local Catholics, Protestants and two Buddhist sects, Hoa Hao and Cao Dai, litincense at an altar during the program."