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Colonel Nam Nguyen will be a main speaker at our Vietnamese community event : The Fall of Saigon on April 25, 5pm at Vietnamese Community Center. When he was president of the Vietnamese Community of Houston, he led the Vietnamese Community to fight against KKK and won. He is a Patriot, Fighter and Leader.
Mr. Nam Van Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1934. His education was cut short by being drafted to the military in 1954. He was Colonel in the South Vietnamese Armed Forces. He arrived in the United States in San Antonio in 1975. He then worked at a car wash and eventually bought his own Exxon station. He would then make waves in Houston by going up against a leader of the KKK who was trying to take jobs away from Vietnamese fishermen in the Galveston Bay area.

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Interviewee: Mr. Nam Van Nguyen
Translator: Dr. Thieu Dang
Interviewers: Steven Loyd, Mei Leebron
Date of Interview: June 11, 2019
Transcribed by: Mei Leebron, AnhThu Dang
Edited by: Saniya Gayake
Reviewed: Dr. Thieu Dang
Audio Track Time: 1:39:20​
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An English translation is available at: https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstrea...
​Transcript: https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstrea...

This recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.
Citable link: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/109474
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