GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids is marking 50 years since the Fall of Saigon, when the capital of South Vietnam was captured by the North Vietnamese.

After the fall of Da Nang, and with Saigon under attack, then-President Gerald Ford announced "Operation Babylift" where ...

Leading up to the fall of Saigon, for most of April 1975, the U.S. government airlifted nearly 2,600 Vietnamese children to ...

They are turning 50 now, the babies laid out on airplane seats, six to a row, held and fed by strangers who take turns caring ...

Education Everywhere — President Gerald R. Ford’s son and the local Vietnamese community will commemorate the 50th ...

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is located in downtown ... $4 for youths ages 6 to 18 and is free for children 5 and younger. Discounts are available for college students, military members ...

Born: July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska... Gerald Ford, who had never entered a national election, succeeded to both the vice presidency and the presidency without having received a single vote.