New York to Vietnam: The greatest beer run ever?
When Chickie Donohue got word of low morale among his friends fighting in Vietnam in 1967, he embarked on an almost 9,000-mile mission to show his support — one beer at a time.
In 1967 New Yorker John 'Chickie' Donohue travelled into the belly of the Vietnam War to hand-deliver beers to his friends. A civilian, Chickie relied on his charm and wit to get him to where he needed to go. But what began as a short morale-boosting adventure soon became much more treacherous as Chickie found himself caught up in the deadly Lunar New Year attacks on what was then Saigon. This interview, by Mariana Des Forges, was first broadcast in February 2021. Chickie's epic mission is now the subject of a Hollywood movie starring Zach Efron.
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Presenter: Andrea Kennedy
(Photo: Chickie Donohue in Vietnam. Credit: Courtesy of Chickie Donahue)
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