war supporters and military veterans waving American flags.Many of the veterans were drawn to the protest because of reports that protesters might try to vandalize the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.Brian Becker, the national coordinator for the umbrella protest group Act Now to Stop War and End ...
Anti-Vietnam Protest Movement Nixon & Vietnam War Primary SourcesVietnam is a small country to the south of China ('Vietnamese' means "non-Chinese people of the south"). In 111 BC, Vietnam became part of the Chinese Empire. For the next thousand years Vietnam struggled to gain its...
Vietnam War Protest Songs Political Consequences of Vietnam War Protests Silent Majority Vietnam War Ends Sources Vietnam War protests began among peace activists and leftist intellectuals on college campuses, but gained national prominence in 1965, after the United States began bombing North Vietnam ...
Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange win $180 million settlement Vietnam War 1973 Pulitzer Prize‑winning photo “Burst of Joy” is taken Vietnam War 1968 Vietnam War 1970 Vietnam War 1970 President Nixon meets with anti‑war protesters at the Lincoln Memorial ...
For the first time in close to a decade, the Vietnam Moving Wall has made its way to San Joaquin County as visitors prepare to honor thousands of veterans. Jun 29, 2017 US Refuses To Add Sailors' Names To Vietnam Memorial The Pentagon has refused a long-standing request to add the...
Bombarded by horrific images of the war on their televisions, Americans on the home front turned against the war as well: In October 1967, some 35,000 demonstrators staged a massiveVietnam War protestoutside thePentagon. Opponents of the war argued that civilians, not enemy combatants, were ...
Because of the widespread opposition to the war, and the strong passions ignited by anti-war activists, our veterans were grossly mistreated when they returned home. They could not wear their uniforms off base for their own safety, they were spit upon in public places, and one of the many ...
Roman Catholic priests were often divided on the issue, while many leaders of the Episcopal Church participated in anti-war protests around the country. Many Vietnam War veterans joined the protest movement by the late 1960s. Veterans Against the War was one of the more notable veteran anti-...
The Việt Cộng, also known as Front national de libération du Sud-Viêt Nam or NLF (the National Liberation Front), a South Vietnamese common front under the direction of North Vietnam, initiated a guerrilla war in the south. North Vietnam had also invaded Laos in the mid-1950s...
A Sense of Revolution: During the Vietnam War, student protesters from East Tennessee were on the front lines of dissent. We talk to former protesters and Vietnam veterans about the anti-war movement on local campuses. Join East Tennessee PBS as we uncover the issues and the controversy beh...