Five O'Clock Follies

The Five O'Clock Follies is a sobriquet for military press briefings that occurred during the Vietnam War.

[1] The briefings were conduction by the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) Office of Information and held at Saigon's Rex Hotel.

[4]: 93 In early 1966 the number of MACV spokesmen increased from 1 to 4, creating two alternating teams of two briefers each.

[4]: 239–40 Richard Pyle, Associated Press Saigon bureau chief during the war, described the briefings as, "the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia's theater of the absurd.

[6] The last session of the Five O'Clock Follies took place on 27 January 1973, the day the Paris Peace Accords took effect.