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Tim Page is dead

Postby snaark » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:08 pm

How this guy survived Vietnam is a mystery. If you don't know who he was, go buy a copy of Dispatches by Michael Herr.
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Re: Tim Page is dead

Postby vagabond » Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:25 am

snaark wrote:How this guy survived Vietnam is a mystery. If you don't know who he was, go buy a copy of Dispatches by Michael Herr.


Saw RYP's tweet about it. He linked to the NYT obit: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/world/asia/tim-page-dead.html

Also, if someone's on the BFC, I would hope they've read "Dispatches" by now. Great book.
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Re: Tim Page is dead

Postby vagabond » Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:46 am

Had never seen that photo of Sean Flynn carrying him out wounded either. The most ubiquitous one is the one of him looking like Peter Fonda on the motorbike before disappearing into the Khmer Rouge hellscape.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/08 ... mbo-v2.jpg

Couldn't figure out how to get the image to show up by resizing :-/
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Re: Tim Page is dead

Postby Roy14 » Fri Aug 26, 2022 1:41 pm

Hello,

I had not seen the photo before. Thanks for sharing.
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