Image: A3860-28A

Event: Operation Babylift

Location: San Francisco International Airport

Description: President Gerald R. Ford carries a Vietnamese baby from “Clipper 1742," one of the planes that transported approximately 325 South Vietnamese orphans from Saigon to the United States.

Date: April 5, 1975

Credit: Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library

Photographer: David Hume Kennerly

Rights Information: Public Domain (No usage fees, no permission required).

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