Today, “anime” is more popular than ever, with television series and films reaching wider audiences and receiving high levels of acclaim. RELATED: 10 Classic Anime Movies Whose Art Holds Up Against CGI His work was incredibly influential on artists both in manga and Japanese animation. In 1960, Tezuka transitioned to film with The Journey to the West, which he followed with over 60 different films and shows. Before moving to the big screen, he created Astro Boy, contributing over 150,000 pages of work to Japanese comics, or manga. (and he is), Tezuka is his counterpart in Japan. Trinh says she never joined the Vietnamese Communist Party, and quickly forgot any anger she had felt against Americans.If Walt Disney is the godfather of animation in the U.S. Her son left Vietnam and moved to the U.S., she told C-SPAN. "Certainly didn't remind me of a strident propagandist at all."Īfter the war Trinh moved to Ho Chi Minh City with her husband, where she worked in television until her retirement roughly a decade later. "She struck me mainly as an intellectual," says North, who interviewed Trinh in 1976. "Our program served for a cause, so we believed in that cause," Trinh told C-SPAN in a 1992 interview. She volunteered to join the Voice of Vietnam in 1955. She studied English and loved Hollywood movies, especially Gone With The Wind. Trinh was born into a prosperous family in Hanoi, which was then under French colonial rule.
victories or the horrible losses suffered by North Vietnam. "Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?" she asked U.S. She also highlighted economic and racial inequalities in the U.S., and the Detroit riots of 1967. To reinforce her message, Trinh played anti-war folk tunes such as Pete Seeger's "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" and rock songs such as "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place," by The Animals. troops, Trinh read the names and hometowns of GIs killed in action, taken from Stars and Stripes. Trinh received coaching in her trade from Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, known for his sympathy for the North's cause.Īs part of North Vietnam's efforts to demoralize U.S. Among the anti-war activists broadcast by Trinh was actress Jane Fonda. "As she said herself, when she used interviews or tape sent to her from anti-Vietnam war people in the States, she thought they were more effective than her own broadcasts," he says. Nor did most GIs find her message credible, North says. Because she broadcast in English, she was better known to Americans than Vietnamese. Part of this, he says, was because the signal strength of her broadcasts was too weak to be widely heard across the country. North says that Trinh's broadcasts had a "minimal" effect on her listeners. "They would listen very carefully," he adds, "you know, break out the beers and listen to Hanoi Hannah." "You know you cannot win this war."ĭon North, a former ABC News reporter, remembers that "members of the special forces A-team would sit around at night and tune in around 10 o'clock to her broadcasts" in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1965. It is a very good idea to leave a sinking ship," she advised her U.S. troops' will to fight, and convince them that their cause was unjust. The North Vietnamese Defense Ministry's propaganda department wrote her scripts, she told the Voice of Vietnam.
At the height of the war the Voice of Vietnam aired three 30-minute segments of hers a day. Trinh broadcast under the pseudonym Thu Huong, or Autumn Fragrance. The radio service says Trinh was 87 when she died, though there are conflicting reports about the year of her birth.
Her former employer, the government-run Voice of Vietnam, reported the news on its website Sunday. One of North Vietnam's most recognizable wartime voices fell silent last Friday, when former radio broadcaster Trinh Thi Ngo, dubbed "Hanoi Hannah" by American service members, died. Trinh Thi Ngo, known to GIs as "Hanoi Hannah" during the Vietnam War, in 2015.