Lots of interesting tidbits were included in the documentary. For example, did you know that the third-largest parade in America's entire history at the time was in fact a pro-Vietnam War rally? That goes to show the Vietnam War was pretty popular among people, despite the leftist history that's being fed. Also, there's a scene in there that covers John McCain, 31:24, I believe, and he makes it very clear he is NOT fond of how the media demonized POWs or their aiding in propaganda efforts by the Vietcong (and bear in mind, this was LONG BEFORE McCain disgraced himself by turning into a huge RINO, to say little about his last action in the future basically destroying any chance at ending Obamacare in the near future out of spite towards Trump over a "sleight" that the media may have just made up.). If nothing else, this bit shows that he's redeemable compared to Jane Fonda and especially John Kerry, who didn't even try to support America in any way during that war and if anything openly rooted for them, and most certainly would NEVER have made any attempt at condemning the VC. Heck, better than Roger Stone, even, who despite being a Vietnam War veteran had the audacity to try and use VC propaganda in his Platoon movie.
The documentary is in two parts. The first part gives the actual facts about the war itself primarily, as well as perception among Americans at home (the silent majority). The second part deals with the media impact of perception of the war both during and after the war.
This definitely needs to be shown everywhere. However, as noted above, you can only watch the videos through those links, as the video tapes are no longer available anywhere, not even through AIM (which was one of the reasons this documentary even exists), and you can forget Amazon carrying them, either. And obviously, PBS refuses to even acknowledge the documentary's existence on their website, let alone let people actually watch it on there.
More betterer Linky thingy:
Part I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsYwdCoOIEI
Part II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaECqmMYtxM
I can’t quite remember who my father hated more, Walter Crankcase or that lowlife LBJ. It was a close race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vietnam_War_Veterans_Day
March 29th is VIET NAM VETERANS DAY.
503rd Infantry 173rd Abn - Nov 1965 to Nov 1966
Never thought I would live so long...
“’Cause I know that’s the *popular* version of what went on there.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9DO26O6dIg
Thanks for posting. Still a sore spot after all these years.
The legacy of this war lives on.
There is a great sense of shame among the generation who came of age during this war.
The people sent to re-education camps. The massive escape of the survivors on rickety boats. The Killing Fields.
That shame should have been used. It should have caused a great self-analysis by this generation. The military did go through a huge self-analysis after this war.
But, there was no self-analysis by the press or the entertainment industry or the universities.
There was no self-analysis by the American culture.
So the shame lives on, deeply hidden....highly medicated...expressed in harmful ways.
Vietnam was just one front in the War Against Communism/Tyranny.
The enemy successfully replaced one group of Vietnamese people living in palaces and riding in government limousines with a different group of Vietnamese people living in the palaces and riding in the government limousines.
Wow.
Big change.
We are ahead on points at this time.
I see the Clintons as an example of how this war continues to plague this country.
I give them the benefit of the doubt that they truly believed in communism when they were young. They had the revolutionary fire in their bellies.
Then, they saw how foolish they had been. Communism was just another name for tyranny.
Their foolishness made them angry.
If they couldnt help people, then they would help themselves.
And they did and do so to this day.
Too bad they are stretched to fit 16:9 TVs. I am downloading it, and will see if I can correct the aspect ratio later.
thank you
Thanks for posting. “Fake news” is nothing new.
HLB (Sgt, USMC, 1970-1974)
After the Buddhist monk Duc set himself on fire in the main road intersection in Saigon and the photo of it was printed in the New York Times, Kennedy made the decision and issued memos to pull our “advisers” out of Vietnam.
Kennedy realized that this was a French Catholic war against Buddhism.
Ho Chi Minh sent a letter to Truman asking for his help against the French, but Truman refused. At that time North Vietnam was not communist. They turned to the communists for help after turned down by the USA.
Kennedy was assassinated November 22nd, only 20 days after our CIA had President Diem and his brother assassinated. Kennedy was furious about this happening.
Johnson reversed Kennedy’s decision to pull out and the CIA destroyed the memos, except for the blue carbons that survived, supporting Kennedy’s decisions to pull out.
Then Johnson used a fake attack on the Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin to get the resolution through congress and then attack North Vietnam.
It was another Deep State war.
4 L8R
Roger Stone equals Oliver Stone?
Bottom line
Even though JFK was Catholic, he recognized the persecution of the Buddhists was wrong.
JFK changed his position against the Deep State (CIA). He was already angry at the CIA and fired the director Dulles after the Bsy of Pigs fiasco. He made a statement the he would smash the CIA into a million pieces so events like this could never happen again.
JFK realized his mistakes and issued orders to withdraw troops from Vietnam. He was furious over the assassination of Diem and his brother.
The CIA needed Kennedy dead. And it happened just 20 days after Diem was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
Johnson escalated the was to please the CIA and win the 1964 election against Goldwater.
Thank you for this information and link.
“It shows how the Mainstream Media, with Cronkite in the lead, not only politically Spun the news they reported, but outright lied - big, wide and continuous...”
I recall watching a news cast on youtube about the Ia Drang Valley battle - our first major fight. While we took many losses, the enemy lost a bunch more (10x?)
At the end of the video was some famous reporter saying something like “While the battle is considered a victory, I only wonder how long the mothers and fathers of our young men will put up with an endless line of body bags coming home from the jungles of a country so far from home.”
Crap like this, after the first major battle of the war!