Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books. And thousands of Americans and Vietnamese know them as the graveyards of loved ones who died fighting more than a half-century ago.Today...
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. ...
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 ...
Five decades after the Vietnam war ended, more Asian American and Pacific Islander veterans are reflecting on the life-changing ordeal that was at times made more complicated by their race. Service members from the Army to the Marine Corps are now sharing stories about the racism they face...
chief images of the military in American homes through the peak of U.S. involvement in 1969. Naturally, the show about a country rube in the Marine Corps never directly mentioned the war. But most of the real-life Marines who marched in its introduction would soon be fighting in Vietnam....
1969, after visiting the site of the then-largest oil spill in U.S. history off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, Nelson read an article on his flight back to Washington about how anti-war teach-ins at colleges and universities were changing the conversation about the Vietnam War...
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 ...
Daniel Ellsberg copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon Papers. Jun 16, 2023 Former Vietnam War POWs, reunited, insist they are not heroes At a reunion at the Nixon Presidential Library, those held captiv...
U.S. ArmyFirst Lieutenant John E. Warren Jr.displayed extraordinaryheroismandself-sacrificeduring theVietnam War, earning theMedal of Honorfor his actions onJanuary 14, 1969, inTây Ninh Province, South Vietnam. Serving as aplatoon leaderinCompany C, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 25th...
As the Vietnam war was winding down I became obsessed with the abuse of Palestinians – enabled with U.S. weapons and dollars. This obsession continues. I am the founder and president of the non-profit Justice First Foundation, Inc. Joe Clifford is another director of JFF." In Rhode ...