Francois Sully Collection

Photojournalist François Sully worked in Vietnam from the time that he was discharged from the French Army in Saigon in 1947. In September 1962, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem expelled Sully. Unofficially, Diem intended the expulsion to serve as a warning to all journalists reporting the failings of his U.S.-assisted war against the Viet Cong. Sully worked in bordering countries until Diem's November 1963 assassination, when he returned to Vietnam where he covered the war until his death in a helicopter crash in March 1971. The photographs are selected from a collection of over 12,000 of his photographs that are part of the archives of Vietnam: A Television History that the University of Massachusetts Boston acquired from the WGBH Educational Foundation, a public broadcasting station, in 1985. The photographs from the Sully collection date mainly from 1964 to 1970.

Link to Sully Archives