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One of the most striking images taken during the Vietnam War may have been attributed to the wrong photographer. Back in 1973, World Press Photo selected the Associated Press’ Nick Ut’s “The ...
The Vietnam War wasn’t just fought in the dense jungles and muddy rice fields of Southeast Asia — it was felt in the homes ...
SUE: And I from yours. SIEDOW: So today we’re actually here to speak a little bit about one of Sue’s experiences, which was witnessing the Eight Days in May, as they’re called, which was a period of ...
Vietnam War: some families of ... Oanh was killed in action in Thua Thien Hue in Central Vietnam in 1972, long before Thanh was born. But growing up, Thanh heard so much about him from her family, ...
But a majority of Americans had turned against the war long before June 1972. As years of Gallup polling data show, more than half the public were calling US involvement in Vietnam a mistake as ...
It was March 12, 1971, in northern Vietnam’s Quin Tri, when the gun truck, “Proud American,” was struck by two B40 ...
Set against the December 1972 bombing raids on Hanoi, The Little Girl of Hanoi is cinema made in the very midst of war. ‘Hearts and Minds’ (1974) ... Not long after the turn of the century, former U.S ...
In December 1972, just a month before American forces left Vietnam, a Marine Corps pilot from Odessa, Texas, named Ron Forrester went missing during a bombing run. His daughter Karoni, who was two ...
The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy.