i watched a little bit of it....i’m big into Vietnam history so i’m aware of much..
what little amount i saw yesterday was fair- the beginnings of the Vietnam involvement started with Truman and basically we went in to save france’s arse...i don’t know how much more i will watch but what little i saw last night was historically accurate...
his jumping from 1947 to 1967 in a moments notice was very annoying and distracting and foreshadows the shape of things to come...
Did he mention us turning down the request to use nukes at Dien Bien Phu?
I didn't see any of it, so perhaps I am being unfair. But I suspect the narrative is supposed to be "Truman started it -- you know, that SOB dropped nukes on Japan!!" then we skip right over JFK and almost all of LBJ -- and WHAM! "Here we have Richard Nixon burning down villages to save them and personally ordering the Mai Lai massacre, and napalming little children -- darn that Nixon! He was a Republican you know. Very much like Donald Trump ..."
“his jumping from 1947 to 1967 in a moments notice was very annoying and distracting and foreshadows the shape of things to come...”
If he did that and doesn’t include JFK’s screwing the pooch in Nam.
Then, he omitted LBJ’s big lies about the second incident in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Go to the link below to read what happened not LBJ’s lies!
The Truth About Tonkin!:
Questions about the Gulf of Tonkin incidents have persisted for more than 40 years. But once-classified documents and tapes released in the past several years, combined with previously uncovered facts, make clear that high government officials distorted facts and deceived the American public about events that led to full U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2008-02/truth-about-tonkin