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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Vicky Nguyen: Boat Baby
Description: NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen has a story to tell of her familyās daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporterāa story told with laughter and fierce love. Starting in 1975, Vietnamās āboat peopleāādesperate families seeking freedomāfled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia, the Nguyen family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored...