Posted on 09/17/2017 6:28:32 PM PDT by tired&retired
Looking for opinions on the new documentary on the Vietnam War that aired on PBS this evening.
Accurate?
This was episode #1. It laid the groundwork from WWII and the history of Ho Chi Minh.
Appears to be airing again right now.
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If it comes from PBS, its BS!
Enough of their bovine excrement!
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I had many friends and relatives in the War. I graduated high school as Nixon ended it.
I’m skeptical of PBS.
Was the documentary historically accurate?
Reasonably, for Ken Burns, straight-forward presentation of history from French colonialism to JFK election. The manipulation that started was the juxtaposition of US-era video with French colonial times, IMO. Throw in equating Ho Chi Minh with Thomas Jefferson and the table is set.
The Burns Civil War doc was really good no?
18 hours. Couldn’t it be done in half the time? Hope he still doesn’t hate Mexicans.
Won’t watch anything of Burns.
He ‘grew’ after he did the Civil War series thirty years ago.
Did he mention that Ho Chi Minh had been a Comintern agent, and member of the French Communist Party since 1917?
Overall I think it was fair. It was titled "There is no one truth" or something to that effect. Max Cleland was one of the first speakers. Some may not have noted it.He was the democrat mascot during the 2004 campaign (no mention of how he received his injuries).
First Episode went back to the beginning of French Imperial rule and worked its way to the early 60s. They did an interrupted flash-forward with intermittent personal accounts from some involved in the heavy years of the late 60s.
I thought the content was fair. I just didn't care for the flash-forward style. Seemed to interrupt the flow to me. That was my only negative perception. Format choice, not a content issue.
Bet Burns will be much more harsh on Nixon than LBJ.
Yes, that was covered.
Terrible! Biased as hell! Horrible!
...and that’s without watching it. But I know what to expect, since it’s a product of the media.
I saw it. PBS did a Vietnam documentary over thirty years ago. This was a rehash. Uncle Ho was a swell guy. Bad America. Bad French. (well, they WERE bad.)
This is what I am expecting. Watched the preceding program on the Dick Cavett Show and the guest interviews he did during the war, specifically the Anit-War years. It was, in my opinion, directed at the Nixon admin, while going light on Johnson and Kennedy.
I agree. Time line was very choppy. Went forward and back way too much.
History is written by the winners and we did not win the Vietnam War.
Anyone wanting to know how the Vietnam War really became the US war, and the criminal-level malfeasance of LBJ and the JCS needs to read “Dereliction of Duty”... by H.R.McMaster
The truths he tells therein almost stalled his career at O-5 / LTC.
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