She was killed by a bullet.ĬATHY WAYNE was the stage name she adopted midway through her successful run on Australian television. Fifty years ago, on the day Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew landed on the moon, Cathy Wayne became the first Australian woman to die in the Vietnam war. Burt Kearns and Jeff Abraham chronicle how the unthinkable happened: Someone got away with murder.Ĭathy Wayne, a pretty teenage Australian pop star, made history on July 20, 1969.
Things were going well with her “Sweethearts On Parade” tour until one night, 50 years ago, at a U.S. The teenage pop star from Australia ignored the warnings and embarked on a tour of military bases in Vietnam.
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