Exhibit 1007

Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973 (CMH Pub. 91-2)

Exhibit 1007 · Official history

Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973 (CMH Pub. 91-2)

held the final session of the famous Five O'Clock Follies on 27 January, the day the accord went into effect.

Army official history. Records that the MACV Office of Information held the final session of the Five O'Clock Follies on 27 January 1973, the day the accord went into effect, with over 385 correspondents then in South Vietnam.

Source: U.S. Army Center of Military History (William M. Hammond)
Date: 1996
Quoted from: p. 613-614
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://archive.org/details/CMHPub91-2-B
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: OCR text; 'O'CIock' in the OCR corrected to 'O'Clock'.

Cited by

Finding INF-2.7: Primary record The Army's official history of Vietnam public affairs says the Johnson administration judged "a low profile, achieved through restraints on the press at the scene of conflict" the safer course, records that correspondents called the nightly MACV briefings "The Five O'Clock Follies," and records their final session on 27 January 1973.