Betty Nguyen

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Betty Nguyen is a Vietnamese American news anchor currently employed with cable television news channel CNN. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, she left in April,1975. She grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. Nguyen intended to become an attorney, but instead graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.

[edit] Fleeing Vietnam

Nguyen was just a little girl toward the end of the Vietnam War when her family fled the country. From a CNN videotape, 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."