Betty Nguyen
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Betty Nguyen is a Vietnamese American news anchor currently employed with cable television news channel CNN. She co-anchors CNN Saturday Morning, CNN Sunday Morning, and the weekend editions of CNN Newsroom with TJ Holmes and is a regular correspondent and contributor for other CNN programming.
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, she left the country in April 1975 to come to the United States. She grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. Nguyen intended to become an attorney, but instead graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.[1]
You can currently see Betty on CNN Newsroom during the following times (all times Eastern Standard Time):
- 7:00 am - 8:30 am: CNN Saturday Morning/CNN Sunday Morning
- 9:00 am - 9:30 am: CNN Saturday Morning/CNN Sunday Morning
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: CNN Newsroom (weekends)
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[edit] Fleeing Vietnam
Nguyen was just a little girl toward the end of the Vietnam War when her family fled their country South Vietnam. From a CNN videotape,[2] she speaks about her father. "He was an American serviceman who fell in love with a Vietnamese college student. They married and had me, a child who was given life, when so many were losing theirs in the war."
"On April 19, 1975, we fled Vietnam, crammed into a packed C-130 cargo plane. It was stepping into the unknown. Nothing was guaranteed except that turning back was not an option. And that meant leaving behind my grandparents...As hard as it was, fleeing not only saved my life, it gave me a new one, in a place called America."
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[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Do, Anh (2004-11-25). "Profile: Betty Nguyen". Nguoi Viet. Retrieved on 3/4/2007.
- ^ "CNN NewsNight Aaron Brown: Operation Baby Lift, aired April 29, 2005" (transcript). Retrieved on 12/18/06.
[edit] External links
- Betty Nguyen CNN Profile
- Betty Nguyen and the Dallas Mavericks
- BN Magazine: Up-Close
- Betty Nguyen News, Pictures, Videos
- Nguoi Viet Online Profile: Betty Nguyen
- CNN's first Vietnamese voice: on the air and on the record
- News Anchor With A Purpose
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