This July Richard Pena made an appearance at the 2015 Bar Leaders Conference. In addition to sharing Last Plane Out of Saigon with the law delegate community, Richard got the opportunity to speak with Texas Bar TV’s Patricia McConnico about the book's honest and gripping message. Check out the video and what Richard Pena has to say! Related Links: Texas Bar Interview |
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All is well for Last Plane Out of Saigon! Many exciting events are in development for this coming Fall and we are thrilled with the buzz surrounding the book. In fact, good things are happening all around for the book and its Author Richard Pena. Richard, who is a practicing attorney in Austin, Texas, has been President & CEO of the Law Offices of Richard Pena, P.C. since he founded it in 1976. In keeping with his business's success and unparalleled standards, the firm has been awarded an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau! To learn more about the author, Richard Pena, and his amazing story visit the Last Plane Out of Saigon website or his Amazon Author Page. The 2015 Bar Leaders Conference is right around the corner! This year's conference is set to take place this weekend at the Westin Galleria in Houston, Texas. The event is meant to strengthen, inspire and celebrate local bars in the Texas region, while sharing critical insights into effective bar leadership. Author, and current attorney, Richard Pena will be making an appearance at the event! He will be signing copies of his highly acclaimed book, Last plane out of Saigon, Friday, July 24th from 11:30am-4:20pm. Do not miss this amazing opportunity to meet Richard Pena and support veterans and local law delegates! Mr. Pena is a proud supporter of the Bar Leaders Conference, its sponsors and Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans.
RELATED LINKS: State Bar of Texas Bar Leaders Conference Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans Photo Credit: Richard Pena Last Thursday, July 16th, a horrific shooting took place in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The lives of four Marines and one Navy Sailor were lost. These men will forever be remembered for their bravery and the service they provided our country. As we mourn their loss, we offer condolences to the families of everyone involved. Veteran Richard Pena, who heard the news about the shooting, took a picture of our nation's flag, flying near the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, just days after the shooting. This flag, seen amidst threatening skies, serves as a reminder to stay strong in the face of devastation.
For the more information click here. Last Plane Out of Saigon is now featured on the USA Book News website under the category of autobiography/memoir/biography! To find out more click HERE!
Co-author, John Hagan was recently featured in the AARP Magazine's April/May issue! The name of the article which featured Hagan is "Vietnam 1965-1975- The War That Changed Everything. John Hagan returned to the United States in 1977 and is now a professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University. See below for a quote from the article. I left for Canada in August, the same month as Woodstock. There were 50,000 war resisters in Canada. Most ended up in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver. About half of them are still up there. None of us had many regrets. As the war rolled on, we knew we were in the right place." To read more click HERE!
The book was recently featured in the June issue of the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal, which goes out to over 400,000 lawyers across the nation! To read the full article click below!
ABA Journal On Tuesday, May 5, Richard Pena had the opportunity to speak on the WCCO's morning news radio with Dave Lee! He talks about his time in Vietnam and much more! To listen click below!
WCCO RADIO INTERVIEW Last Plane Out of Saigon is now up on the Whale Table at Book People in Austin, TX. Be sure and stop by to pick up a copy!
KLRU presents the Oscar-nominated film Last Days In Vietnam: American Experience on April 28th.
The Draft airs Monday, April 27 at 8 pm In the 1960s and 1970s nothing in the United States fueled divisions between race, class and culture like the military draft. It drove young men to the altar, to college, to Canada and to the jungles of Vietnam. These stories form part of America’s long, contentious relationship to the draft, culminating now in demands to reinstate it. This film covers this history from the origins of conscription to its turbulent peak in the Vietnam War, exploring the unintended consequences — for soldiers and citizens — of eliminating mandatory service. It features searing stories and intimate interviews with the people who fought the draft, supported it and lived its realities. The film tells the story of how a single, controversial issue continues to define a nation. Dick Cavett’s Vietnam airs Monday, April 27 at 9 pm. This program, scheduled to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the official end of the Vietnam War, examines the war and its effect on America through the prism of interviews conducted by Dick Cavett on “The Dick Cavett Show.” He devoted entire shows to U.S. Generals, POWs, the Pentagon Papers, the My Lai Massacre and journalists that covered the war including David Brinkley, Ted Koppel and PBS’ own Robert MacNeill. Cavett also interviewed leaders of the ’60s anti-war movement including Rennie Davis, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. New interviews with Cavett and Vietnam historians, including Phil Caputo, Fredrik Logevall and Tim Naftali, provide connective tissue and timeline details. The new interviews provide fresh and honest perspective on what really happened at home and on the battlefield. Stateless airs Monday, April 27 at 10 pm Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Duc H. Nguyen follows the stories of Vietnamese refugees who have been living in a condition f statelessness in the Philippines for 16 years while awaiting a rare opportunity for resettlement in the United States. Many may be familiar with the mass exodus of Vietnamese refugees following the 1975 fall of Saigon, but most do not know that there are still Vietnamese refugees seeking asylum today. STATELESS follows the stories of refugees such as Nguyen Phuc Trong, who has unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Vietnam numerous times since 1975. The great risks that refugees like Phuc Trong take are centered around their anticipation and hope of an opportunity for resettlement. In Manila, lawyer and activist Trinh Hoi and his legal aid center team help the nearly 2,000 Vietnamese “long-stayers” resolve the legal limbo that has rendered them stateless. The Day The 60s Died airs Tuesday, April 28 at 7 pm On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon shocked the country by announcing the United States invasion of Cambodia. At college campuses across the U.S., masses of previously uninvolved students took to the streets in protest. Five days later, four unarmed Kent State students were shot dead by National Guardsmen. In many ways, this event and the spasm of violent unrest that followed marked a fever pitch in the conversation about class, race, freedom and democracy. The Day the 60s Died goes into the lives of Americans at the heart of the conflict — from the students and soldiers who witnessed Kent State to a young foot soldier in the Cambodian jungle; from construction workers fighting demonstrators on Wall Street to the survivors of police shootings of Jackson State students. In May 1970, the “peace now” optimism of the 1960s counterculture met its end at Kent State and American society split apart along generational, gender, racial, political and economic lines Last Days In Vietnam: American Experience airs Tuesday, April 28 at 8 pm. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. The United States has only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. As Communist victory becomes inevitable and the U.S. readies to withdraw, some Americans begin to consider the certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, co-workers and friends. Meanwhile, the prospect of an official evacuation of South Vietnamese becomes delayed by Congressional gridlock and the inexplicably optimistic U.S. Ambassador. With the clock ticking and the city under fire, a number of heroic Americans take matters into their own hands, engaging in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible. Rory Kennedy’s film has been nominated for an Oscar. This Is My Home Now airs Tuesday, April 28 at 10 pm This documentary about the lives of three Montagnard immigrant families in Greensboro, North Carolina. The four young people being profiled have arrived in the past decade and are living in two worlds, supported by those who have come before them but also by community members and professionals who have sponsored them or are looking after their educational and social needs. Although the first Montagnard immigrants, a small group of about 200, were granted refugee status in 1986 in recognition of their support of U.S. Special Forces during the Vietnam War, the majority are more recent arrivals fleeing religious and political persecution. |
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