Media Type

Moving Image

Physical Location

Stacks D026.3C

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English

Format

VHS

Time - Hr:Min:Sec

01:29:00

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

CBS News Collectors Series - Vietnam: Chronicle of a War

A shattering portrait of Vietnam - the world's first "television war."

From our first tentative steps into the morass of Southeast Asia through those desperate final moments of escape from the besieged city of Da Nang, Vietnam: Chronicle of a War traces the history of the devastating conflict that was fought in a far-off land - and then re-run nightly on our television screens. Drawing upon the resources of the CBS News Archives, and narrated by Walter Cronkite, here are little known stories we could never forget - as reported by on-the-scene, award-winning news correspondents and camera crews.

- Charles Kuralt brings the war home with poignant close-ups of uncertainty, fear, and heroism on a risky assignment in an enemy-infested jungle.

- Morley Safer reports the horror as a village hamlet is leveled by American soldiers.

- Walter Cronkite goes along on a dangerous bombing mission over South Vietnam.

- Charles Collingwood pays a rare visit to the capital city of Hanoi.

- Bruce Dunning documents the final calamitous days of the fall of South Vietnam.

Over a decade of tragedy and horror is recounted in these reports and others by such correspondents as Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Eric Sevareid. An important and deeply moving contemporary history, Vietnam: Chronicle of a War sheds new light on that horrendous conflict and on the price we paid for peace.