On March 19, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, Vietnam, McMahon’s unit was ambushedby a heavily fortified enemy force. As bullets tore through the jungle and explosions shook the ground, McMahon’s instinct was not to seek cover but to save his comrades. Despite the overwhelming enemy fire, ...
72 Films, the British production company owned by Fremantle, will mix immersive archive footage with first-person testimony for Apple’s six-part docuseries Vietnam: The War That Changed America.The show has been commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and will bring ...
with Charles de Gaulle proclaiming that if the U.S. did not back France in its reconquest of Vietnam, they might ally themselves with Soviet Russians. Thus began the First Indochina War, a conflict that would eventually morph and spiral into the Vietnam War. ...
A United States Marine during the Vietnam War, Thomas Vallely has never given up on peace. Over the course of five decades, he has brought Vietnam and the United States together—establishing Fulbright University Vietnam, fostering greater economic and cultural exchange, and overcoming the perils...
On June 5, 1969, as President Richard M. Nixon was about to travel to Midway Island to meet with President Nguyen Van Thieu and announce the first withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Vietnam War, Secretary of State William P. Rogers held a news conference in Washington. Rogers asserted ...
We did have concrete criticisms on single issues, such as the Vietnam war, but we did not develop any comprehensive alternative system of values and ideas. Our critique was based on intuitive feeling; we lived and embodied our protest rather than verbalizing and systematizing it. The ...
In 1969 we were as divided as we are now, over the Vietnam War, over civil rights. The moon landing? We couldallcelebrate. Cronkite said, "The date's now indelible. It's going to be remembered as long as man survives." To watch CBS News' coverage of the Apollo 11 landing and of...
Mainstream news reporters echoed the New Journalists’ arguments as they began doubting the ability of “objective” journalism to arrive at truth—especially after more traditional reporting failed to convey the complex truth of events such as McCarthyism in the 1950s, the Vietnam War in the 196...
Okay. Let's now take a look at my transition from anthropocentric activism to biocentric activism. In spring '68 Bob Ockene had noticed that the sinister U.S. MonoMassMedia (MMM) were conditioning Americans to accept the Vietnam War for an utterly indefinite period of time. So we did a...
insurgents in French Indochina, now Vietnam, was abandoned after the defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. A new rebellion in Algeria threatened a military coup, and on June 1, 1958, the assembly invited de Gaulle to return as premier with extraordinary powers. He drafted a ...