John Everingham

John Everingham

John Everingham is an Australian journalist residing in Thailand. Everingham began his career in photojournalism in the mid 1960s, as a teenager trekking through Indochina and learning languages. He originally worked as a translator for TV crews covering the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam war he received acclaim from the mainstream media, and disdain from the American military, for his reporting on the effects of B-52 dumping runs on their way back to bases in Udon Thani, Thailand—when bombers didn't drop all their payload over Hanoi, they dumped their bombs in Laos to cut the risk of accidents on landing. This led to innocent rural Lao and Hmong being killed.

Everingham gained international fame when he sought asylum for his Laotian wife Keosiri Sirisomphone, by swimming her out of Laos under the Mekong River near Vientiane using scuba equipment. The story was turned into a TV movie by Michael Landon [imdb title|id=0085870|title=Love Is Forever] , called "Love is Forever", [The Saga of John Everingham [http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9710/everingham.html] ] based on an article Everingham had written for Reader's Digest. Everingham has a cameo role in the movie.

Everingham is the father of Thai–Australian actor Ananda Everingham. He is currently the managing director of ArtAsia Press, CO LTD. [ArtAsia Press, CO LTD [http://dragonartmedia.com/] ]

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