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| Bruce Dunning |
Bruce Dunning, the CBS News correspondent whose 1975 television
report on the last flight from Da Nang vividly
captured the frantic end of the Vietnam War, died Monday in New York.
He was 73.
The retired CBS newsman died at Mt.
Sinai Hospital
in Manhattan
from injuries suffered in a fall. He lived in Union ,
City, N.J., where he had resided since his retirement from CBS in 2005.
As a young correspondent reporting on the Vietnam War,
Dunning developed an affinity for the region and spent most of his 35-year
career at CBS News in the Far East, where he rose to become Asia bureau chief
in 1989 based in Tokyo .
In that position, he supervised all of the news division's operations in Asia until he retired. During that time, he served as
president of the Tokyo Foreign Correspondents Club.
Dunning was the first CBS News reporter to be based in China when he opened the Beijing
bureau in 1981; in 1979, he was one of the first American broadcast journalists
to report from North Korea .
He is best remembered for his award-winning and dramatic
report on March 29, 1975 aboard a 727 World Airways jet attempting to rescue
refugees from the airport in Da Nang ,
South Vietnam Da Nang has become a Dunkirk ."
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