Kevin Delany was a journalist for ABC and CBS News. He is perhaps most notable for helping to rescue more than 100 Vietnamese ABC employees and their family members during the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Joining CBS News as a reporter in the 1950s Delany eventually became the network’s Hong Kong correspondent. He returned to television news over 20 years later, after a hiatus spent serving in the Peace Corps as the acting director of its programs in East Asia and the Pacific region, and working at the State Department and Capitol Hill. In 1971 Delany joined ABC as a bureau chief in Saigon, returning briefly to the U.S. to cover the Watergate scandal before heading back to Saigon in 1975.

He was in the city when the North Vietnamese approached. In an act of protecting ABC’s own, Delany took over the responsibility of evacuating 15 employees and their family members — over 100 people in all — on U.S. military helicopters.

Delany died January 15, 2015, in Bethesda, Maryland. He was 87.