Joseph L. Galloway's interview for the Veterans History Project at Atlanta History Center
Catalog number: VIS 201.0530
In this interview Joseph L. Galloway describes his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam and in the first Gulf War. He describes his childhood in Texas while his father and uncles were away fighting in World War II and living in a household full of frightened women waiting for the telegraph boy. He recalls collecting scrap metal and bacon grease for the war effort and how shoes were rationed. He tells of his father’s return from the war and his subsequent work in the oil industry in Texas. After high school, Mr. Galloway entered college as a campus stringer with the Victoria Daily Advertiser using a 1912 Remington typewriter with carbon paper. He describes meeting Harry Truman. In 1964, he was sent to the Tokyo Aisan Desk. Mr. Truman asked him to visit Hiroshima and Mr. Galloway describes the visit, including speaking with the Mayor of Hiroshima. He describes his days in Vietnam, dictating stories during a mortar attack. He relates how he became embedded with a unit in country for the Battle of Ia Drang. He lists the other places in which he served as a journalist including Jakarta, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Portuguese Timor, Papua New Guinea, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Mosul. He tells of his retirement and his philosophy of war.
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If no one tells the story, no one understands the sacrifice. A truly fascinating man.
This is my great grandma’s first cousin she was talking about him on Saturday since he recently passed away pretty cool to be related to him
Joe Galloway's book is incredible...... What a great man! Rest in Peace sir!!! Thank you for your service! Hats off to him and the 7th Cavalry, First Battalion. Thank you to all who served in Vietnam.
Joe Galloway is one awesome guy . Thanks for sharing your story Joe. God Bless you Sir .
@downtown4028
Ай бұрын
My cousin... Joe Galloway.
Wish we had more guys like him, rest in peace, sir.
@scottburns2600
2 жыл бұрын
Second that. This gentleman was beyond legendary, but omg, what a guy to sit down at a bar and have a couple beers with and just listen to those stories and his sense of humor
What a story teller! Joe is a magician with words. I met him twice, both at VVA Conventions, and he remembered me the second time. I am amazed at his ability to convey what he has experienced in his life. I'm listening to this interview transfixed. I thanked him for his ability to portray the veterans in a way that people would understand what they experience. As Joe said, the actual experience can only be appreciated fully by being there, but for the others he does such a wonderful job telling the stories. His book was so amazing. I felt so lucky to have never had to experience such a battle. Rest In Peace, Joe...I'll be looking for you on the other side.
I'll be damn. Joe Galloway. Kudos to Atlanta history center!
I met Joe Galloway when he did a interview of me while working on this 50 anniversary project he is working on now. He is a amazing man. He understands a Vietnam combat and all veterans. I think that Americans need to know how to a appreciate the country they live. He lives here in Concord, N.C. where I live. I served in Co. C 1/46 196 Americal Div. Sept 69-Sept 70. Thank you Joe Galloway Sincerely Jimmy Morrison
@melaniewhite8869
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your service’
@robertisham5279
Ай бұрын
And he was in the army before he ever became a reporter.
Mr Galloway thank you doesn't say enough. It was my honor and privilege to hear your story. Be blessed 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⚓️⚓️⚓️
What a great interview, I believe one of your best. I've been an admirer of Mr Galloway since reading his well known book. Once again, job well done
What an amazing story. Additionally I would like to thank Mr Galloway for his interviews he has done. The job he did interviewing was absolutely the best and any interview in which he was the interviewer I appreciated. Not only for his knowledge of the war but how he let the interviewee speak.
We probably would never know if it wasn't told by him. What a real privilege to read or listen to this humble man who got it right and accurate.
War correspondents are a very special breed. When W.C. Heinz took my dad and I to Normandy on the 10th Anniversary of DDay for Colliers Magazine, I experienced the same grace shown by Mr. Galloway. May God bless such Patriots.
One the most intriguing interviews I've ever seen.
My father was an MP in Vietnam from 1965-1966. I regret not asking him more before his Agent Orange death in 2015. My kid's (now 7 and 9) ask me so many questions about their HERO's experiences there (Dad's sense of humor was such that he wanted called His Exalted Royal One, gods i miss him); I have little I'm willing to tell them because of their age. He never told me or my brother anything but his good experiences til we were in our late teens. I think I may have them watch this during their Christmas break, pandemic willing lol.
@melaniewhite8869
2 жыл бұрын
God bless you and your Dad’ as well as sharing!
Joe your insight is irreplaceable. Glad you made it home. Thank you for everything you have done.
RIP great man, great hero! You will b missed. Thank you for helping me when my son was in Iraq!
I didn’t think I would enjoy, or should I say learn much from a reporter but this interview is as informative and exciting as any of the perhaps hundreds of combat interviews that I have listened to.
Wow, what a life he had. Amazing story of an amazing man.
This man will be truly missed RIP Joe thank you for telling us the real truth about what happened. You were really a true hero. Now you get to see your friends ounce again. God bless
So very thankful Mr Galloway left us this history. How proud his family must be.
god bless, RIP, We need more journalists like this brave man
Outstanding!
Joe you will always have my respect for what you did Vietnam your only reporter I know fought to get into combat zone you are definitely special person and I thank you for writing book about your time with Hal Moore and unlike most reporter you made sure that everything was correct and true most reporter don’t care thank you from desert storm vet
Joe, thanks for your report on your experiences. I do appreciate it. \
One of the best interviews, I hope Mr. Galloway writes an autobiography. A nation of potato farmers, wish he would've expounded on Russia. So very interesting, and brought tears to my eyes at the very end.
A truly rare breed of Man. Thankyou Mr Galloway. To all Servicemen and Women, thankyou for protecting us as we sleep.
An awe inspiring story
Wonderful man! Great interview! Thank you both
Saw a you tube of Gen moore about the big battle and both are riveting. Amazing that Mr Galloway wasnt wounded in all the actions he got himself into ( or at least not mentioned). Going to see if our library has their book, now that ive seen both authors interviewed!! Thank you for this interview!!
He told the story of many heroes who lost their voice in Vietnam .
A Great American Journalist
Rest is Peace sir!
Love to have met him😔🙏🇺🇸🍺
@roxannemoser
2 жыл бұрын
I was able to meet him and talk for about 4 hours. It was an amazing conversation.
What a way to walk in to war God bless you
Thank you Joe. You are a hero!
I remember looking at all of his pics as a kid while looking for a glimpse of my older brother . Joe Galloway was United press international.
Wow! What a ride he had!
I don’t comment much. But this should me mandatory course material in every journalism class across the country.
@melaniewhite8869
2 жыл бұрын
Completely agree!
Mr Gallaway did this one night and he made it out to be a big deal and when you do that for two months or longer in a row, you know alittle bit of what war was about.
What an amazing man
Just wondering if Joe told the mayor that he better sleep in again was because Joe knew Truman personally well enough that he would make the same decision because Japan drew 1st blood on the US in Hawaii or was it to just end the war?
I could listen to joe for hours in fact I think I have. I to love the first cav D company 229th 66 - 67
@johnalves3583
4 жыл бұрын
chuck cuttress Thanks Chuck . I appreciate all you Guys who served during the War.
@johnalves3583
4 жыл бұрын
chuck cuttress Thanks Chuck . I appreciate all you Guys who served during the War.
read the book this guy is a legend and hero. slow hand salute !
A true Gent
A reporter who was awarded the Doughboy, Damn
Great timely comment starting at 42:04. Applies to our Afghan cut & run.
His uncle I believe was on the USS Bunker Hill with my dad
R.I.P. Mr. Galloway.
1:14:54 He obviously doesn't like replaying the events of the Battle of Ia Drang, understandably.
@migmadmarine
2 жыл бұрын
there is something about looking into dead people's faces. it never leaves you😞
Your not so average average Joe. SALUTE
Volume too low. Why?
I hereby apologize for a snarky comment I made about this heroically great man in an interview he made with a veteran on this site. I did not know. I feel like a "jackass in the snowstorm of his greatness. I am truly sorry.
There was enough military in Viet Nam to walk hand in hand from the South to the North and end it all in a matter of the time it took to walk the distance. It would have been that simple.
Rest in peace Joe
R.I.P. Joe.
RIP Joe Buddy...
.51 caliber for the Viets and .50 for the US
RIP Joe passed away August 18, 2021
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Mr Galloway is a typical reporter that tells a bit of the truth, as he tells the story how low he was paid to be a reporter in Viet Nam, and what he didnt say was the average grunt made 350 dollars a month. Now if that is wha he made, I will eat my hat.
God bless joe
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So sad. Even he admits he had the chance to make some amends once he held a journalistic post. All the lies of the Bush administration and the deceitful speeches he, we can only assume, had to write for Colin Powell about the WMDs (I never forget those ‘trucks’ nonsense) , this guy, as honest and humble and brave as he is, was part of the great machine. Powerless to stop it. Thank you for your service? For what? Thank you for being a generous and brave spirit here? Yes. And what is a soldier if he is mainly fighting for his buddies? He is a headless, purposeless machine with a weapon! This man is a great human, and he cried for the helicopter pilots and realized it was the same as Vietnam thirty years before. As if we had learned nothing. And it seems we haven’t. My goodness, we have soooo. So much further to learn. I don’t have the answers, but boy this is an important video. Thank you very much for making this series and for putting it up. I love America because people can speak freely, but really, we have a long way to go. And when people join the services, think about it. Why are you joining? Adventure? Comradely? Pay check? Sense of safety in an institution? Of course all understandable reasons, I am not above doing it either. But look what becomes of you!
@adamr6794
3 жыл бұрын
I'm just glad I'm not related to you.
@TermiteUSA
2 жыл бұрын
Spam
@mebeasensei
2 жыл бұрын
@@adamr6794 We're brothers now!
@robertisham5279
4 ай бұрын
@@mebeasensei So you're saying Galloway could've helped prevented the Iraq war from happening by writing a letter to Colin Powell?
The reason Americans did not win the Viet Nam war, was because we never was allowed to fight to win.
@robertisham5279
Ай бұрын
Who cares it wasn't ours to win.
Your "story" made an incompetent officer into a three star general. I cannot count the major errors made during the Ia Drang Battle. Dozens of Special Forces soldiers tried warning the 1st CAV there was a MAJOR NVA unit on the mastiff and were ignored. If it wasn't for SP/4 Parrish , LTC Moore's battalion would have been totally destroyed.The TRUTH is often lost in war.
God bless you Joe...you showed us what war was truly like....those boys fought with everything they had . May you find peace one day ..