Talks and events

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2015 VAB dinner presentation. Miki opens up (introduction) and shows "Last Days in Vietnam" trailer. 

Miki talk briefly about "the ditch" from Ba Van Nguyen on April 29th, 1975.

November 11th, 2015 - Veterans Day talk Gilbert Cellars in Yakima, Washington. Short snippet of story.

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Thanking Veterans who fought for and currently fighting for freedom and democracy.

Snippet from ABC News as presented to Timbercrest Jr. High Veterans day presentation and appreciation.

Miki talks about his tech career, charity work, working with Rory Kennedy and the road ahead.

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Portfolio

"On April 29, 1975, Ba Van Nguyen did something that could have been ripped from the script of a "Mission Impossible" movie. He was fleeing from the North Vietnamese army with his wife and their three young children as communist soldiers crashed the gates of Saigon. For 20 excruciating minutes, Nguyen's copter literally hovered..." - CNN

"My dad (Ba Van Nguyen) knew the Chinook was way too big to land on the warship.  I found out the USS Kirk was a submarine destroyer, which was meant to hunt, search and destroy. I have to give a lot of credit to the crew below who risked their lives to stand underneath this..." - PRI's The World

"The film’s most dramatic footage was shot on the deck of the USS Kirk that day. Miki Nguyen was 6 years old when his father, Ba Nguyen, loaded a twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook helicopter with his family and other civilians, only to be waved off when he approached the ship. The Chinook was too big to land on the carrier, so..." - Newsweek

"She (Kennedy) paired the footage with the stirring account of one of those rescued, Miki Nguyen, whose father, a South Vietnamese helicopter pilot, had tried to fly a twin-rotor Boeing CH-47 Chinook to the Kirk. But the giant chopper would have instantly capsized the frigate-size vessel, so he hovered nearby just over the water..." - New York Times

"Rory Kennedy attended a screening of her Oscar-nominated doc “Last Days in Vietnam” at WGBH studios on Thursday night. She was joined for a Q&A and reception by Hugh Doyle, chief engineer on the USS Kirk, and Miki Nguyen, a South Vietnamese refugee who escaped Vietnam in 1975. The film has aired on PBS as part of “American Experience.”  - Boston Globe

"The centerpiece of the film is the valiant efforts of the captain and crew of the U.S.S. Kirk to save helicopter refugees -- until a giant twin rotor Chinook hovers overhead. At which point its passengers jump out the window and are caught by the crew on the deck, starting with a trusting mother throwing her baby. The pilot has to hold..." - IndieWire press

Video Snippets

Official trailer of Oscar Nominated Last Days in Vietnam (2:16 min)

Miki Nguyen short trailer from film  (1:58 min)

ABC News - This Week with Dr. Mina Nguyen [Sister] (3:40 min)

Seattle KCTS 9 IN Close with Producer Enrique Cerna (7:56 min)

My dad's story line in FX Fargo - Season 2, Ep 10.

Discovery's American Heroes Channel - WHAT HISTORY FORGOT "On USS Kirk". Footage also includes my father's (Ba Van Nguyen CH-47) dramatic Chinook ditch at sea.