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THE ARCHIVE OF AMBASSADOR KENNETH M. QUINN
FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE MEKONG
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Responding to the Tragic Plight of the Boat People Refugees

201/7/79

Amb. Quinn describes how on a freezing night in January 1979, he and Governor Ray watched a television report about the life and death situation of thousands of refugees from Vietnam desperately seeking to live in freedom. That same night, the governor of Iowa becomes the first official in the world to respond to this desperate situation.

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