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VVA Trip to the Wall, Memorial Day 1988
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2175
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Item Creation Date: 30 May 1988
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 09 Apr 2006 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Dear America: Letters from Vietnam / To Heal a Nation
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2176
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Our World / Peter Paul and Mary
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2177
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Captain James A. Mulligan USN (Ret.): POW in Vietnam - 7 Years
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2178
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Memorial Day 1983
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2179
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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HBO - Dear America
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2180
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Tet '68 - 90 Parts 1 and 2
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2181
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Welcome Home Veterans / John Fogerty
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2182
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Item Creation Date: 04 July 1987
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Tet '68: 1993
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2183
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedication
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2184
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Item Creation Date: 07 May 1995
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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POWs - RVN
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2185
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Item Creation Date: 25 May 1987
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Americans Abandoned
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2186
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Only the Strong
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2187
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Son Tay Raid / USMA Briefing / Marty Donahue and Dick Meadows
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2188
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
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POW Protest at Capitol
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2189
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Virginia Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2190
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Tet '68
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2191
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Item Creation Date: 04 February 1988
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Added: 09 Apr 2006 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Son Tay for Tet '68
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2192
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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1968: 25th Anniversay with Martin Sheen
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2193
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Item Creation Date: 11 May 1993
Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Steve Smith: Co-executive Producer of 'Tour of Duty' / Firebase Phoenix
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2194
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Tet '88' both days
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2195
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Tet '91' Don Benton and Bill Kirkland
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2196
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Admiral Zumwalt: VVA Convention Luncheon
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2197
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Reception War Memorial: Ashe Center Part 1
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2198
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
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reception War Memorial: Ashe Center Part 2
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2199
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Westmoreland and Governor Robb
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2200
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Chicago '86
Moving Image Item Number: 278VI2201
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Collection: William E. Kirkland Collection
Association: Tet '68 Association
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Stolen Honor
Moving Image Item Number: 268VI1944
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In the mid 1960s thousands of you American men left their families, homes and jobs and went to fight for their country in Southeast Asia. Many of them never returned. Others were shot down and captured behind enemy lines. They were forced to suffer years of brutal treatment at the hands of the Communist captors. Their horrifying days of darkness, starvation and torture were made worse by the actions of a young American Officer named John Kerry. As these American heroes suffered, John Kerry sat comfortably in the glow of television lights to tell a Senate Committee that these men were 'war criminals.' The story of these valiant POWs is compelling and powerful. Stolen Honor is their story. It is the story the media won't tell you. It's the story John Kerry doesn't want to hear.
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Collection: Steve Sherman Collection
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Added: 16 May 2005 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Unlabeled Reel
Audio Item Number: 346AU0273
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Silvertone No. 9950
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Collection: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection
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Added: 01 Feb 2002 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Philippians 1976 -reel #2
Audio Item Number: 346AU0276
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Philippians 1976 -reel #2 Side 1: Lesson 3: Phil. 1:1b Table/Organization: Military, local church; Side 2: Lesson 4: Phil. 1:2a Doc. of Grace (Revised; Pts. 1-4a)
Item Creation Date: 05 May 1976
Collection: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection
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Added: 01 Feb 2002 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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National Town MeetingWhen Should America Use Nuclear Weapons1 of 2.
Audio Item Number: 346AU0290
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National Town Meeting 'When Should America Use Nuclear Weapons' 1 of 2. This is a National Town Meeting hosted by NPR. The topic of the meeting is an address of when the US should use nuclear weapons. Admiral Zumwalt and Congresswoman Pat Schroder debated the issue. Schroder argued that nuclear weapons should only be used as a last resort in the event of an invasion of the US. She advocated strengthening of conventional forces as a deterrent. Zumwalt did not directly answer the question. He digressed into the assumption that the Soviets were seeking to reduce US world influence and slowly dominate the world through their influence. On the other hand, the US sought a stable world according to Zumwalt. He stated that the Soviets were spending substantially more on defense than the US. As a result, the US would be less likely to win a conventional war. He hypothesized that around 1980 the US would be forced to make significant accommodations to the Soviets or make the decision to employ nuclear weapons. Neither panelist regarded the SALT negotiations as having favorable results.
politics: U.S. - defense spending - social programs - counter-force - nuclear war - Armed Services Committee - mini-nukes - Americans for Energy Independence - detente - Kissinger - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - Interim Offensive Agreement - tactical nukes Vietnam - colonialism - European Union - Adm Zumwalt - Congresswoman Pat Schroder - NPR
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Collection: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection
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National Town MeetingWhen Should America Use Nuclear Weapons2 of 2
Audio Item Number: 346AU0291
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National Town Meeting 'When Should America Use Nuclear Weapons' 2 of 2 This is a continuation of the 'National Town Hall Meetings' with Zumwalt and Congresswoman Pat Schroder. The panelists fielded several questions concerning nuclear first strikes, civilian casualties, and arms control. Schroder claimed that she didn't think that the US should bear the responsibility of saving everyone else's nations for them. She stated that the US has aided countries with low morale that did not give significant assistance to help themselves. She also argued that these countries should help the US in paying for their defense. Zumwalt argued for further military buildup by citing the disparity between Soviet and US militaries as well as the effects of disinformation by the current administration on American complacency. Zumwalt also claimed that the US 'will never cheat' in matters of arms control while the Soviets constantly cheat in these matters.
Cuban Missile Crisis - Jordan Crisis - Yom Kippur War - morale - AWACS - civil defense - cruise missiles - counter-force - Pershing missiles - NATO - Sino-U.S. relations - nuclear targeting list - ballistic missile submarines - SLBM - anti-ballistic missile defense
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Collection: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection
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Added: 01 Feb 2002 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Return With Honor
Moving Image Item Number: 999VI0207
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'RETURN WITH HONOR,' a new film by Academy Award-winning filmmakers Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, tells the powerful and moving story of American pilots shot down over North Vietnam and the challenge to survive with honor as POWs for up to eight and a half years. The film is a testament to heroism, courage, ingenuity, faith, endurance and brotherhood under extreme duress. It tells of the sudden transformation - after a harrowing shoot down and capture - from self-confident, top-gun type aviators to prisoners of war confronting years of captivity. It is a story of survival - physical, mental and spiritual - told in the pilots' own words, rich with survivor humor and with footage never before seen from the archives of North Vietnam. It is also the story of the wives left behind who for years did not know 'whether they were wives or widows.' And it is the story of a government, which plunged America into a war to which it could not predict an end. Finally, it is a universal story of honor, love, and duty. 'RETURN WITH HONOR' is about the resilience of the human spirit, told with riveting first person accounts from an ensemble cast of dozens of fighter pilots - from Ev Alvarez, the first shot down in North Vietnam (August 5, 1964), to senior ranking officers, Jim Stockdale, Jerry Denton and Korean War ace Robbie Risner, to Naval Academy graduate John McCain. 'RETURN WITH HONOR' was produced and directed by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, who won an Oscar for 'MAYA LIN: A Strong Clear Vision' a feature documentary film about the designer of 'The Wall,' the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. 'RETURN WITH HONOR' was filmed in Hanoi, Vietnam and in communities across the U.S. The 102-minute feature film was completed in time for the 25th anniversary of the release of the POWs. ABOUT THE PRESENTER TOM HANKS is an Academy Award-winning actor and director who says of RETURN WITH HONOR: 'I was fascinated and moved by the stories of these men told of extraordinary courage and sacrifice. These are tales of heroism that I hadn't heard before. This is one of those films that satisfy both my mind and my emotions. I hope that all Americans will have a chance to see this remarkable story.'
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Collection: Vietnam Center Collection
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Added: 03 Feb 2002 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Air America: The CIA's Secret Airline
Moving Image Item Number: 406VI0407
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Collection: Allen Cates Collection
Association: Air America Association
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Added: 03 Feb 2002 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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China, Today and Tomorrow
Audio Item Number: 992AU0512
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Side A Copyright: 'China, Today and Tomorrow' This is a news program featuring a debate on US policy toward China. The debate covers issues such as Chinese influence on emerging Asian countries, admission into the UN, and open trade with China. Several of the speakers (including Robert Kennedy?)argue for recognition of China and immediate change in US foreign policy toward China rather than waiting until the conclusion of the Vietnam War. The speakers also debate future plans with Taiwan and the defensive commitment of the US to Taiwan. Side B Copyright: 'China, Today and Tomorrow' This seems to be a news program with a debate over how best to pursue relations with China. The debate ranged from China's induction into the UN, relations with Taiwan, and recognition of China by the United States.
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Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Audio / Moving Images
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Added: 28 Jul 2002 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Kosygin
Audio Item Number: 992AU0515
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Scotch 290 side one - track one 50 -69 Thai's in Texas 130 - 160 deescalion by Hanoi 135 - Bombing Persy- 290-288 President Johnson Press Conference 302 - danger of Russian intervention 324-340 Salisbury and Senator Fulbright - 317 Peace feelers 399 - casualties during last 6 yrs 404 cost over 20 billion 449 President Johnson 464 Bombing 478- stop bombing 560 - Babies for sale 800 - China madness of side one Fulbright - tr 2 65-74-79 1167 Pauline Fredrick Feb 8, 1967 Today's show- ask negotiations Veterans day *end of tape from end 910 troop ratio Feb. 100- Propaganda leaflets 105-106 Pope's hope 116 - McBird 129 - troop reductions 1112 Feb. 9, 1967 Thurs. Kosygin and Rush Roth Foreign Feb. 9 1967 156- Rush Press Conference 176 - Premier Kosygin Bombing News CIA and NSA (Feb 14, 1967) CBS News Vietnam Special The North Feb 14, 1967 India's Poverty Feb. 14, 1967 1519 Side 2 tr 2 Senator Javilts of NY Senator Fulbright Indonesia Issues and answers Duplicate Senator Fulbright side one tr. 2 Issues and answers Sun. Feb. 19, 1967
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Interviews about the war
Audio Item Number: 992AU0528
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Mississippi Democratic Senator John Stinnis gives his opinion about marches and opposition to the war. He feels that fair comment and fair criticism are okay, but the opposition is cutting too deep. The struggle against policy is only encouraging the enemy. Correspondent Mike Wallace reports on the live promulgation of the new constitution at the Independence Palace. Some skeptics said they'd never be able to resolve their differences and write a constitution and if they did the ruling generals would never permit the document to see the official light of day. The ceremony confounds the skeptics. United States Ambassador Harry Cabbot Lodge was one of the first men of the Diplomatic Corps on the scene. The men responsible for persuading the Generals of the armed forces council to come under civilian rule were two of their own number, General Ngyuen Van Ti and Nuin Cac Qui. They impressed upon Washington that it was imperative that the constitution became a reality. The document promises freedom of religion, speedy trials for defendants, the prohibition of unwarranted search or confiscation. President and Mrs. Johnson attended mass with 29 visiting Latin American diplomats at the historic San Fernando Cathedral. The Catholic Archbishop Robert Lucy gave a strong defense of the Presidents Vietnam policy. He felt the intervention was a sad and heavy obligation imposed by the mandate of love. 4,000 Australians near Hok Tui are making their biggest drive. Far to the North is an unspecified of South Koreans. 1,500 men of the United States 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade are in Fu Yen and Kan Woi province. Correspondent Howard Tucker: The voter turnout was good in Tua about 30 miles South of Saigon the day after South Vietnam's new construction went into effect to elect their own village officials. The people were voting for people they knew. American officials believe these elections are a great step forward and an effective weapon against the Viet Cong. They feel villagers with a voice will better resist Viet Cong attempts to win them over. Security measures were strong for fear that Viet Cong might try to sabotage the election. April 3, 1967, Correspondent Irving R. Levine CBS News Few American diplomats saw some embarrassing anti-American campaigns in Florence. Now Florence may have a problem gaining new tourist due to the large amount of Communist support. Senator McNamara says that a total of 500 U.S. aircraft were lost to fighting with the enemy. Under present circumstances the loss of U.S. lives will be less if we pursue our present target policies. McNamara also disclosed that 18,000 American troops have been pulled out of Europe and brought home with their 21,000 dependents. The withdrawal was carried out in conjunction with the relocation of U.S. forces from France. In Vietnam War today survivors of a Viet Cong regiment that was badly mauled by U.S. troops in war zone z disappeared into the jungles of Ta Mihn province. At least 591 were killed in the weekend battle. It was disclosed that American, Australian, and South Korean troops are carrying out 3 new operations along South Vietnam's coast. The main objectives are to drive the Viet Cong from food supplies and to secure strategic roads. Saigon officials reported that about 80% of eligible voters took part in South Vietnam's 1st round of village council elections. This delayed terrorist who murdered at least 4 candidates, kidnapped 10, and wounded half a dozen police and militiamen. Overall, the elections went off without surprising smoothness. Correspondent Mike Wallace reports about the voter turnout in Wong Tho Phu. The village election had a large turnout because the people feel safe. Just about 50 yards away is a tiny moat behind barbed wire stands a military post manned by popular forces of Vietnam. Polls opened at 8am and within 2 hours a full third had cast their ballots. It was a remarkably well-organized election. This is the first village election in 22 years. The national police radio the results. Some people vote because they want their papers in order when they need help. The previous day South Vietnam got its own constitution. The Vietnam was not a problem during the elections. CBS News correspondent John Hart interviews Ambassador William Porter. Ambassador Porter always the question to how many bullets are given to a certain situation. They are convincing that Communism is not the best political regime. Ambassador Porter believes that night operations should be increased to prevent assassinations and kidnappings. The guerillas have a good knowledge of the terrain. Senator Edward Kennedy went to criticize the National Rifle Association. The cost of planes and supplies is very costly. The average cost of munitions used over Vietnam is $2,000 a minute. Wa Minh was among the first to appoint village councilman. The council of 8 will appoint a village chief, but he will not rule absolutely. It has the potential to create a democratic society from the ground up. Civil rights and the peace movement are discussed. Racism and militarism are the two evils facing man. Elsworth Bunker replaced Henry Cabbot Lodge as the United States Ambassador South Vietnam. Chairman Fulbright questions the principal objective in Vietnam. Dr. Martin Luther King called for a unilateral ceasefire. He also called for a withdrawal of all United States troops. 5,557 Viet Cong defected and came over to the allied side. The total of defectors are nearly 11,000 Viet Cong in 1967. If North Vietnam really wants peace then Ho Chi Minh will meet in the buffer zone during a ceasefire. Mike Wallace interviews Chu about who is the number 1 man in Vietnam. Chu believes that the press is confused about who is the number 1 man. He also believes that South Vietnam needs more allied troops. He wants 6 troops to 1. Hardcore Viet Cong units destroyed a police station. The Viet Cong have relied on kidnapping as a weapon in ruling the countryside. Viet Cong kidnapped 13 Khe Trung villagers and the popular forces kidnapped 13 Viet Cong villagers of their own. The Viet Cong used the Ben Hai Bridge to enter South Vietnam. The Viet Cong helped 250 Communist prisoners escape. In Fung Tao a fence of fence is being built in order to isolate the Viet Cong. Its purpose is to cut of the Viet Cong from moving with relative ease. The fence will hopefully cause the Viet Cong to move in smaller numbers. The land on the other side was prosperous and the Viet Cong used it as a supply for medicine, food, and taxes. John Kenneth Galbrath again criticized the bombing of Vietnam. He feels that the Democrats are headed for election trouble. Galbrath thought that if Liberals sit on their hands it will be detrimental to the Democratic Party. 194 Americans were killed in action the previous week, 1679 other Americans wounded, the number of Communist dead - 2,373. South Vietnamese had 211 killed. President Johnson gave the Medal of Honor to Daniel Fernandez (posthumously). President Johnson is sending General Craton Abrams Jr. to be second in command to General Westmoreland. Mike Wallace interviewed Ambassador Lodge. Ambassador Lodge thinks the war is in four parts: overt aggression, political war, economic war, and clandestine aggression. He feels that the overt aggression is going very well, but the clandestine aggression is hard to prevent and detect. American air raids have entered the area near Hanoi. A soldier feels that there are some targets that he would like to put his wing on. He feels that the mig is a threat, but not a great threat. The bases in North Vietnam could be taken out. A war is never won without escalation. The speaker did not see any differences between Governor Romney and the President. He has much more confidence in the American pilots. The previous week the United States lost their 500th aircraft. He believes that the Secretary is not giving accurate statistics to the American people. (A story about a frontier boy seems to be recorded over because it is in bits and pieces.) The Vietnam War - part 65- Children of War: this program focused on the innocent victims of the War. The report showed how they managed. The Vietnamese children are familiar with death. The Viet Cong killed Nguyen Van Tai's father. His mother is entitled to a year of her husband's salary as compensation for his death, but it will take several months for her to receive it. The Viet Cong can take out the outposts at any time. Wives and children stay at the outposts with their husbands. Their work and responsibility begin early in life. The children learn cleanliness in a shallow moat with the Viet Cong base only a mile and a half away. Children work along side their fathers in the fields. The tenants pay half their harvest to absentee landlords, but if they also had to pay the Viet Cong, they may not have enough to eat. One child was shot in the leg and it was eventually amputated. Some American GI's see the little boy hobbling with his crutch. They take him to Saigon. The boy was taken to a rehabilitation center to get a new artificial leg. Many children have been struck by North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, and American troops. The privileged chose to send their children to French schools. For most Vietnamese children, English is replacing French as the most important foreign language because it will enable them to get a better job. Some women choose to work in bars that cater to GI's. She has come to Saigon to make money and she has not been disappointed. The bar girls are not the only people searching for American dollars. Some six year olds sell peanuts at five cents a bag. They seek out the drunken soldiers because they are more likely to give more money. Most bar girls do not need to be prostitutes because they make enough money as bar girls. Some girls pick up several hundred extra dollars a month by becoming mistresses. Some girls can make more in a day than a Vietnamese soldier can make in a month. Some boys work in a print shop. They represent some of the families that have left the war torn countryside for the city. To is and apprentice and he earned eighty cents a week. Fu earns four dollars a week. Fua's father and family welcome him back. It is the first time they have seen him with his new leg. Fua is now a celebrity of sorts among the other children. As the children of war grow up they become part of the military. Draft dodging is becoming more difficult even if your family is wealthy. Basic training last 12 weeks and is very similar to American training. Every week a new Battalion of 500 men graduates. Sunday is family day at the camp. The children of Vietnam must adapt to survive. In and area just South of Saigon the Viet Cong and American troops fought from noon to nightfall. General John Tolson had a close call when a Plexiglas window only nine inches from his head. The second round of elections in under way. The Viet Cong terrorists are not succeeding in keep people away from the polls. More voters have turned out in the second round than in the second round. Latin American issues are discussed thoroughly. The South Vietnamese government has stepped up its inducements to get more Viet Cong to defect with the open arms policy. The Chu Hoi Center is an open arms center. Since the department opened, 35,000 defectors have accepted the offer of the South Vietnamese government. Hai was a member of the Viet Cong. His family managed to move to a secure village before his defection. He is treated well by the center. The main diet for the defectors is anti Communist propaganda. Hai says he left the Communist because it was a dangerous life. The open arms program will not win the war, but it does represent a progressive step forward by South Vietnam's government. The B-52's have now come to Thailand. They can drop bombs from forty to fifty thousand feet, without being seen by the enemy. General Westmoreland considers this to be one of his most effective weapons. The B-52's have regular duties in Vietnam, but they also have nuclear capabilities. The B-52's are within striking distance of most of the cities in China. A Conversation about the power situation of the president and foreign policy follows. GI's have hit the enemy hard. They have killed 209 enemies during 3 days of fighting. The Viet Cong want the Mekong Delta's rice and the allied troops want to take it away. Some Viet Cong know about Marine operations because the South Vietnamese have Viet Cong agents planted among the other soldiers. B-52's have saturated many enemy targets. The 503rd plane was lost. There is an increasing number of malaria in the United States because of the soldiers returning from Vietnam.
Lang Vei bombing - Captain John Duffy - NBC News - CBS News - infiltration - Kennedy - CIA - draft lottery- racial bias - John Wayne - propaganda - Lt Mark Nelson, USN - Sgt Shelley Blunt - Sgt Ken Sanders - Spec-5 Dale Kembrey - Capt Peter Dawkins - nation-building - social evolution - USAID - West German Education Center - Iranian Surgical Team - Vung Tau - Training Center for Revolutionary Development Cadre - Capt James Salvaggio - RF/PF - VC infrastructure - DIDG - politics: U.S. - economy: France - deGaulle - foreign relations: USSR - OP Junction City -
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Lieutenant General James Gavin (Former Ambassador to France) Interview
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This lengthy audio file contains a great deal of analysis of the Vietnam conflict that is presented primarily in the format of NBC and CBS news broadcasts. The first hour of this audio file discusses the issue of the public participating in violent and nonviolent demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Many politicians also publicly objected to America's presence in Vietnam. Lt. Gen. James Gavin, former ambassador to France, resigned from the Democratic Advisory Council in Massachusetts because he felt that he could no longer support President Johnson and the Vietnam conflict. Senator Robert F. Kennedy from New York, while not directly stating his opposition to the Vietnam conflict, suggests that the country begin to reduce spending in Vietnam and increase domestic spending. A number of military advisors concur, saying that the land war that Vietnam has become is exactly the type of land conflict that should have been avoided. The second hour of this audio file presents a number of NBC and CBS news broadcasts that suggest ways to end the Vietnam War. In part, this would require that South Vietnam take a more active role in the defense of their own country. After the shelling of Dong Ha and the decision to send 45,000 additional troops to Vietnam from the Strategic Reserve, Johnson is placed under pressure to remove the restrictions on bombing efforts to help avoid as many casualties as possible. This section of the audio file also describes the conditions in the Pleiku POW camp and the campaigning during South Vietnam's first presidential election. The third hour of this audio file, again consisting primarily of CBS and NBC news broadcasts, discusses the inability and/or unwillingness of the South Vietnamese government to hold a truly fair and objective election. This situation caused a number of U.S. senators to reconsider the American commitment to the conflict. Senator John Pastore of Rhode Island suggests that America cannot help the Vietnamese unless they want to be helped. America's only justification for being in Vietnam is that we want the Vietnamese people to be free. They are only able to express that freedom through the ballot box. If the ballot box during the presidential elections is not free, then America is wasting its time, money and resources. This section of the audio file also reports the decision to finally remove restrictions on bombing in North Vietnam, thus allowing U.S. bombers to attack Hanoi, North Vietnam's capital city, and Haiphong, one of North Vietnam's major seaports. The fourth hour of this audio file elaborates on the deliberations that took place regarding the decision to reduce the number of U.S. bombing missions over North Vietnam. It was suggested that if the bombing were to be reduced, it would have to be followed by a reciprocal de-escalation of hostilities by the North Vietnamese. The effectiveness of the bombing campaign was questioned. Critics suggested that the bombing campaign did not stop the flow of supplies and enemy troops into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The bombing campaign was defended by suggesting that the objective of the bombing campaign was not to stop the flow of troops and/or supplies because that is an unrealistic expectation. The objective of the bombing campaign was to make it more difficult and more expensive to move the troops and supplies, thus hindering the efforts of the enemy troops. An interview at Camp Smith, Honolulu with Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp, Commander of U.S. Pacific forces, reiterated the successes and failures of the bombing campaign in North Vietnam. The fifth hour of this audio file consists primarily of an interview with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, about his role in civil rights protests, his denunciation of violent riots, and his objections to the Vietnam conflict. The role U.S. troops have in the life of the Montagnard tribes in South Vietnam is also discussed,
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McCarthy June 1, 25, 30 1968
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NLF probe - Tuesday June 25, 1968 Westmoreland -1080 Side 1 tr.2 July 1 or June 30 1170 McCarthy NBC New meet the press 1271 - What U.S. should do 1320 - Talk aggression 1340 - Frid July 2, B-52 Bombing the 'invisible death' atomic age weapon Side 2, tr.2 - Face the Nation - William Bundy April 28, 1968 Ass Senator Far Eastern Affairs 156 - coalition gov 200 -15-25% support NCF Savelle Davis
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9th Division stuck in the Plain of Reeds [Reel 1 of 2]
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Lingle: USARPAC Calibration
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Untitled # 805
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Untitled # 806
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Untitled # 807
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Untitled # 809
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Untitled # 810
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President Nixon's Resignation Speech
Audio Item Number: 1316AU1318
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ABC News coverage leading up to President Richard Nixon's speech in which he resigns the Presidency. This tape begins with excerpts from Nixon's secretly recorded tapes concerning the Watergate scandal. Frank Reynolds, Howard K. Smith, Herb Klein (former Nixon Communications Director) Pat Brown, Sr., Ron Ziegler, Studs Terkle, Senator Charles Goodell; Congressman Robert Michael; Congressman Wellsbach all are heard in this segment.
Item Creation Date: 8 August 1974
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Side 1 - Best of Simon and Garfunkel and Best of Petulia Clark: Side 2 - AFVN Hits
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(from liner notes) 'Taped 11-7-69 Side 1 Love is Blue; MacArthur Park; Give Me Some Lovin'; I Can't Stand It; I'm a Man; Those Were the Days; Up Up and Away; I Love You, I Do; Most of All, There's You; Wild Times; Uh, Uh, Uh Bill Cosby Arlo Guthrie AFVN Dedication Hour Side 2 The Johnny Carson Show More AFVN Hits on 'The Orient Express''
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