Its teams scoured the countryside, rounding up Vietcong suspects.We'd put up posters in various parts of Vietnam with a picture of the individual and description of who he was.
Fifty-five, 60-year-old, unarmed.
General Van Tien Dung, a senior strategist, was present.More than 100,000 fresh troops moved down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, now a modern truck route. His effort made him famous among the Vietnamese in France.In 1920, Nguyen Ai Quoc became a founding member of the French Communist Party, the first Vietnamese Communist. Basically, once the people were taken out, the whole thing was just turned into a parking lot.At the same time the villages themselves would be destroyed -- anything of material value would be eliminated -- mattresses would be slashed, rice would either be taken out or poisoned or dumped in the river, crops would be defoliated. Before we could say a single word we embraced each other and wept. Masses of American equipment, and massive American bombing made the difference. The victims were not the Vietnamese Communists in the border sanctuaries.
104--LBJ Goes to War (1964-1965)--With Ho Chi Minh determined to reunite Vietnam, Lyndon Baines Johnson determined to prevent it, and South Vietnam on the verge of collapse, the stage was set for massive escalation of the undeclared Vietnam War. Had draft inequities hurt the morale of the Army?The Nixon administration reduced draft calls and instituted a lottery, which was meant to be more fair and more predictable.
Ho Chi Minh formed a government in Hanoi, carefully mixing in members of other nationalist groups.
Kennedy wanted bipartisan company in the Vietnam crisis.The prospect of a coup split the Kennedy ranks. As the rumors flew, fear spread.
In March 1946, they reached an agreement. Vietnam: A Television History (Ep-13) Legacies 1973 - YouTube I killed two of them and I didn't hit the other one and he got away in the darkness.You know, I would say to them, "Look, you have one function. Torn by strikes and braced for violence, Mayor Daley's city welcomed the divided delegates to the 1968 Democratic convention.Relations between the police and the press corps were tense.Vice President Humphrey, choice of the party regulars, was assured of the nomination before he arrived.And week after week, every Thursday night, network news viewers saw the body counts.North Vietnam's Premier Pham Van Dong sent a message of friendship to the organizers.The trial of Lt. William Calley and others implicated in the My Lai massacre haunted the news for months.
In March of 1970, CBS News correspondent Richard Threlkeld was embedded with a platoon patrolling the jungles of Vietnam near Cambodia.
A typical bus, except that they looked like prison buses, army green prison buses with wire mesh over the windows.
But most of the enemy troops were native southerners fighting in Vietcong units.The destruction -- much of it deliberate -- created more than three million refugees.Most American soldiers served with support units during their one-year tours. Series release date: 9/1983No materials may be re-used without references to appearance releases and WGBH/UMass Boston contract.
109--Cambodia and Laos--Despite technical neutrality, both of Vietnam's smaller neighbors were drawn into the war, suffered massive bombing, and in the case of Cambodia, endured a post-war holocaust of nightmare proportions. "On the eve of the election, the Vietcong attacked an American airbase near Saigon. Blood plasma was running out. And with the vast, the big presence of foreign troops in, you know, in Vietnam, it created a lot of social problems.I came in one time and there was a long line and we were all standing there and a couple of black guys came in and they walked in front of the line. This program was originally broadcast on PBS on October 4, 1983.AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is a production of WGBH Boston.A coproduction of WGBH Boston with Central Independent Television, UK, Antenne-2, France in association with LRE ProductionsMajor funding for the series was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, public television stations, and the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. They make decisions without waiting for the intelligence detail.Barry Goldwater began after the nomination to try to be Mr.
(Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area. The President then had a series of high level meetings staged as a genuine debate, to seek consensus on the decision he had quietly made.For the first time, in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, Americans fought the North Vietnamese -- face to face.For the first time, B-52s supported troops in the field.And for the first time, to Americans, Vietnam meant a major new war.South Vietnam was on the other side of America's world.
The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought.
And that sends a real charge through you.It brought to bear the power of its industry and technology. He may regard human life very highly, and actually lose merits for his passage to the life beyond by taking human life.
Two American advisers were always standing on either side of me.When I was hit, the napalm set my whole body on fire. If you are interested in licensing stock footage please visit The United States used every means at its disposal to block the trail.