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The Pan Am Podcast

Episode 63: Operation Babylift: Carried Home and the Bonds That Endure

April 19, 2026·1h 39m
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Tom Betti is joined by three special guests - Pan Am flight attendant Karen Walker Ryan and adoptees Carol Mason and Dr. Matt Steiner - to mark the 51st anniversary of Operation Babylift, the frantic evacuation ordered by U.S. President Gerald R. Ford of Vietnamese war orphans in the final days of Saigon in 1975. But this episode is about more than history. It is about what happens to people after history moves through them. It is about memory, identity,...

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