Posted on 12/10/2005 4:21:52 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother
Vietnam Veterans Bare Their Souls In a Searing '72 Documentary
See "Winter Soldier."
This extraordinary documentary, made in 1972 and having its first theatrical release, not only revisits events during the Vietnam War that have uncanny resonance today but also stands as a riveting example of pure filmic storytelling. An unadorned, black-and-white record of a three-day gathering held in Detroit in 1971, "Winter Soldier" turns the camera on the testimony of former soldiers invited by Vietnam Veterans Against the War to share accounts of atrocities they committed or witnessed. The result is a spellbinding film that achieves impressive power through little more than the spoken word. ..... Recreational killing of civilians, rape, arson, torture: They did it, or saw it, all. Having been trained to see their enemies as less than human -- they were always called gooks or commies -- and having been taught to dissociate from the violence they were committing lest they be killed themselves, they simply learned not to care.
......."Winter Soldier" is an important historical document, an eerily prescient antiwar plea and a dazzling example of filmmaking at its most iconographically potent. But at its best, it is the eloquent, unforgettable tale of profound moral reckoning. Winter Soldier (95 minutes, at Landmark's E Street Cinema) is not rated.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It is all there. If memory serves me right many of the participants later denied what they said or were never really in RVN.
Corsi or someone can make a quick buck with a quick, but factual, book on this whole subject.
This was done last year in film version and MSM ganged up on any TV station or movie house who thought that presenting an opposing [to JFnKerry] viewpoint was a good idea. Private DVDs were made available by the filmmaker.
Mark Hyman, a Captain in the Navy Reserve, and executive with Sinclair Broadcasting Corp, tried to get the entire film aired on Fox affiliates and was thwarted.
Thank goodness for that. What would be interesting is to see what was left on the editors floor. Kerry and Fonda licking toads? LoL!
The footage was edited over eight months to create the 95-minute movie. Screened in Cannes and Berlin, including a brief run at Cinema 2 in Manhattan, the film failed to get a TV broadcast and has been rarely seen since.
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4 days of filming took eight months of editing! Obviously there were lots of "retakes" of "testimony" sprinkled among a lot of pot-smoking and anti-social behavior.
I saw that interview. Can't remember where, but the guy sure convinced me that most of those guys were illegitimate.
I must say, I'm not surprised.
I just said yesterday it's time for a resurrection of Kerry's lies. Too bad they beat the us to it. Too bad they're so good at projecting lies as truth.
The day after the election anyone could read the writing on the wall.
Americans can not continue to stick their heads in the sand and wish bad things away.
I'm just a little mad, can you tell.
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I can't remember the name, but some did investigate all of those so called "solders" who testified, and wrote a book.
I'm not sure, but I think there is reference to it on the Swiftie's site. there is also Steve Pitkin? who swore an afidavit that he lied, Kerry was manipulating him.
Al Hubbard, a VVAW Executive Secretary at the time , claimed to have been an Air Force Captain wounded in Vietnam piloting a transport plane. In fact, Hubbard had been a staff sergeant who was not a pilot and who was never assigned to Vietnam. His was also one of the more fabulous detailed testimonies.
That book goes through each and everyone of those liars.
I'm looking for it now, but haven't found it yet.
free dixie,sw
Thanks for the ping!
free dixie,sw
"In Yesterday's Lies: Steve Pitkin and the Winter Soldiers, Scott Swett tells the story of a former VVAW member and participant in the Winter Soldier Investigation who has now filed an affidavit stating that John Kerry and others pressured him to give false testimony about American atrocities in Vietnam."
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=YesterdaysLies1
Good morning, stand watie!!!
hanoi kerry and his own War Crimes in Vietnam
He was in command of a Swift Boat
and ordered his men to do these things.
Listen to this 1971 audio clip in hanoi kerry's own words.
Listen Here
http://www.streamload.com/jmstein77/Kerry2.mp3
hanoi kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971
to accuse the United States military
of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam.
hanoi kerry 1971 TESTIMONY
http://www.c-span.org/vote2004/jkerrytestimony.asp
Legislative Proposals Relating to the War in Southeast Asia Thursday, April 22, 1971
United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTTT
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