removing Vietnamese civilians and soldiers who were connected with the American presence. The U.S. State Department estimated that the Vietnamese employees of the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam, past and present, and their families totaled 90,000 people. In his testimony to Congress, Ambassador Martin asserted that 22,294 such people were evacuated by the end of April. In 1977, National Review alleged that some 30,000 South Vietnamese had been systematically killed using a list of CIA informants left behind by the U.S. embassy. An iconic photograph of evacuees entering a CIA Air America helicopter on the roof of the apartment building at 22 Gia Long Street is frequently mischaracterized as showing an evacuation from the "U.S. Embassy" via a "military" helicopter. Commemoration 30 April is celebrated as a public holiday in Vietnam as Reunification Day (though the official reunification of the nation actually occurred on 2 July 1976) or Liberation Day (Ngày Giải Phóng). Along with International Workers' Day on 1 May, most people take the day off work and there are public celebrations. Among overseas Vietnamese the week of 30 April is referred to as "Black April" and it is also commemorated as a time of lamentation for the fall of Saigon and the fall of South Vietnam as a whole. In popular culture Miss Saigon, A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon and The Deer Hunter including the scenery of the Fall of Saigon. Some video records during the Fall of Saigon was featured in the seventh season of the Canadian made, internationally distributed documentary series Mayday, in the episode "Operation Babylift", which covered the C-5 plane crash prior to this event. (Giải phóng Sài Gòn) is a 2005 Vietnamese film dramatizing the battle for the capture of Saigon. See also Indochina refugee crisis Re-education camp (Vietnam) John Riordan Fall of Kabul (2021) References Further reading (See especially p. 273 and on.) (originally published in 1987 in French) External links "Saigon's Finale" – The New York Times. "1975: Saigon surrenders" – BBC News. Last Days in Vietnam on Youtube History of South Vietnam Saigon Saigon, Fall 1975 in Vietnam Saigon Communist revolutions Saigon Forced migration Vietnamese diaspora United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War April 1975 events in Asia Saigon Urban warfare Evacuations