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  Cronkite, Walter

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200116 pages Editorial Excerpt from an editorial about the Vietnam War Broadcast on CBS Television, February 27, 1968 It is generally agreed that American media coverage of the Vietnam War had a major impact on public attitudes toward the...
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  Nixon, Richard M.

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200118 pages Excerpt Excerpt from the "Silent Majority" speech Delivered on national television, November 24, 1969 "And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support." By the time Richard M....
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  Ho Chi Minh

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200118 pages Excerpt Excerpt from a letter to the editor of the American magazine Minority of One Published in the May 1964 issue "The Vietnamese people thank the workers', youth, students', and women's organizations, as well as...
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  Kennedy, Robert F.

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200116 pages Speech Excerpt from a speech on the Vietnam War Delivered on February 8, 1968 "Reality is grim and painful. But it is only a remote echo of the anguish toward which a policy [U.S. military policy in Vietnam] founded on...
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  Palo, Linda Phillips

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200113 pages Excerpt Letter left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, July 20, 1985 Published in Shrapnel in the Heart, edited by Laura Palmer, 1987 "I learned that the pain and loss never goes away. It just changes." When American...
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  Phuong Hoang

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200119 pages Excerpt Excerpt from a statement about his experiences as a refugee, 1975–76 Published in Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives, edited by James Freeman, 1989 "When we set out on our journey, we had no idea what would...
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  Forsythe, Julie

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200113 pages Excerpt Excerpt from an interview about her experiences in Vietnam, 1972–75 Published in Kathryn Marshall's In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1987 "I'm sure things are desperately poor [in...
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  Stockdale, James

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200118 pages Excerpt Excerpt from an account of his experiences as a prisoner of war Published in In Love and War by James and Sybil Stockdale, 1984 "I wrote the papers, and I signed them. But I made them beat it out of me. I felt like...
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  Caputo, Philip

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200118 pages Excerpt Excerpt from a memoir of his experiences in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, 1965 Published in his book A Rumor of War, 1977 "Everything rotted and corroded there [in Vietnam]: bodies, boot leather, canvas, metal, morals....
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  Le Ly Hayslip

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200114 pages Excerpt Excerpt from her memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places Published in 1989 "I had a terrible dream of ghosts floating through the village and into our house and into my mouth and nose and I couldn't breathe. I...
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  King, Martin Luther, Jr

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200118 pages Speech Excerpt from his antiwar speech "Beyond Vietnam" Delivered April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York City "[The world] demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in...
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  The War in Vietnam

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20013 pages Topic overview 1310LThe Vietnam War was a brutal and bloody conflict that took the lives of more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers and an estimated two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. In addition, air bombings, mortar...
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  Prelude to War

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20012 pages Topic overview, Brie... 1150LLong before American soldiers arrived in Vietnam in the 1960s, the Vietnamese people had endured centuries of violent struggle for control of their country. The most recent of these struggles took place from 1946 to...
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  O'Brien, Tim

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200118 pages Excerpt Excerpt from his story "On the Rainy River" Published in The Things They Carried, 1990 "I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile. I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my...
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  Rubenstein, Bill

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200117 pages Excerpt Excerpt from his essay "Tragedy at Kent" Published in Middle of the Country, edited by Bill Warren, 1970 "This is a "national tragedy," one that will, when history is written, be one of the hallmarks of a leadership...
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  Legacies of the War

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20013 pages Topic overview 1120LIn January of 1973 the Paris Accords were signed and the United States withdrew its military forces from Vietnam. Two years later, North Vietnamese troops captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon to end the war....
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  The War at Home

  From:Vietnam War Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20014 pages Topic overview 1200LU.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War increased dramatically during the 1960s and remained significant until 1973, when American forces were finally withdrawn from the conflict. In the early years of U.S. military...