From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 21, 1975:

A refugee family from Vietnam was on its way to Lawrence. Vinh Duc Chieu and eight other members of his family were expected to arrive tonight on a flight from Camp Pendleton in California. The family was to stay temporarily at the home of John and Carol Boulton, coordinators of the Lawrence Refugee Committee said. A rented house at 733 Missouri was to be made available for the family on Aug. 1. “We have all the mattresses and linen we need, thanks to the people of Lawrence, who have been so kind, ” said Maura Piekalkiewicz, a member of the committee. “But we need a few more things.” The committee was seeking a used TV set to help the children learn English, as well as blankets for the winter and a good, inexpensive car. The father of the family said they had been smuggled out of South Vietnam by his employer a week before the fall of Saigon, riding in a refrigerated truck with two air holes cut in the top to an airbase. “If I had stayed behind in Saigon, the head and the body would not have stayed together,” Vinh said. “I would be dead.”