David Butler (5) (1941–2012)

[from Dartmouth University Libraries website]
David Butler was born on June 18, 1941, in Wakefield, MA. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1963. After graduation he worked for the McGraw-Hill Book Company as a supervising editor. In 1966, he became a reporter for the Claremont (NH) Daily Eagle. Later that year, Butler took an editing job at Playboy magazine. It was while working for Playboy that he made his first two visits to Vietnam (1971 and 1973). He returned to Vietnam in late 1964, working as a stringer for NBC News. As one of the last journalists airlifted from Saigon, he was an eyewitness to the last few months of the war and to the evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese from Saigon in April 1975. After stints in Bangkok and New York, working for NBC radio and Newsweek magazine, Butler moved to Washington, DC in 1982, to begin researching and writing a book about his experiences in Vietnam. The Fall of Saigon was published in 1985.