American Experience
Daughter From Danang: The Last Orphan

May 7, 1975

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[Panel 1]
Mrs. Rosenthal: Yes, we'll be taking her home to Sata Monica this afternoon!  And we have already decided to call her "Kim"!

[Panel 2]
Reporter: Mrs. Rosenthal, seeing how we have over 100,000 unadopted orphans in our own country, why did you choose to adopt a Vietnamese baby?

[Panel 3]
Mrs. Rosenthal: We decided to adopt Kim because of the immediacy of her plight!  It had nothing to do with her being Vietnamese.

[Panel 4]
Mrs. Rosenthal: Of course I won't deny the glamour of it all...
Kim: {thinking} Yes, let's not fool ourselves, gang--I'm a class act!