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TEXT: Text that appears in UPPER CASE identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. [*S7685] MR. KERRY. MR. PRESIDENT, RECENTLY CBS NEWS BROADCAST A REMARKABLE TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY ENTITLED "THE WALL WITHIN," WHICH FOCUSED ON VIETNAM VETERANS IN WASHINGTON STATE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, OR PTSD. THESE VETERANS ONLY REPRESENT A SMALL MINORITY OF ALL VIETNAM VETERANS, YET THEIR PROBLEMS ARE REAL. THIS POWERFUL AND HARD-HITTING DOCUMENTARY WAS FOLLOWED UP BY A REPORT ON "60 MINUTES" WHICH DETAILED THE LACK OF RESPONSIVENESS OF THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION TO VIETNAM...

Congressional Record -- Senate Monday, June 13, 1988 100th Cong. 2nd Sess. 134 Cong Rec S 7685 REFERENCE: Vol. 134 No. 86 TITLE: ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS; VIETNAM VETERANS AND PTSD SPEAKER: MR. KERRY TEXT: Text that appears in UPPER CASE identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. [*S7685] MR. KERRY. MR. PRESIDENT, RECENTLY CBS NEWS BROADCAST A REMARKABLE TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY ENTITLED "THE WALL WITHIN," WHICH FOCUSED ON VIETNAM VETERANS IN WASHINGTON STATE WHO ARE VICTIMS OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, OR PTSD. THESE VETERANS ONLY REPRESENT A SMALL MINORITY OF ALL VIETNAM...

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Critics are calling the media scandal over the Jerry Killian forgeries "Rathergate." But to thousands of Vietnam veterans, the real Rathergate took place 16 years ago when Dan Rather successfully foisted a fraud onto the American people. Then, unlike now, there was no blogosphere to expose him. On June 2, 1988, CBS aired an hour-long special titled CBS Reports: The Wall Within, which CBS trumpeted as the "rebirth of the TV documentary." It purported to tell the true story of Vietnam through the eyes of six of the men who fought there. And what terrible stories they had to tell....