numerous declassified documents have shed more light on the documents. >> i am tom blanton and we are here on the top floor of the main washington -- main library of the george washington university. we are in a room with declassified artifacts. most of the documents we get today are digital. we can look through the historians' work, the inside the interceptsk, of the north vietnamese conversations, and listen to president johnson's phone calls as he is talking with the ,ecretary of defense, mcnamara and begin to understand two huge realities that were not known to the public at the time. one, that the north vietnamese attacks on the second of august,

1964, were provoked. they were not the unprovoked aggression that was presented to the american public and the basis for our bombing back. secret running the patrols, the so-called desoto patrols, to figure out how the north vietnamese radar work, to see how they would respond, and .o intercept communications as part of an ongoing pressure on the north vietnamese. boats onacks on our the second of august were presented as unprovoked aggression when actually, we have provoked them. this is one of the big ones. the president knew it. the defense secretary knew it. we have them on plan -- we have them on tape.

it certainly has something to do with that attack. i think we should also at that time, mr. president, explained that op. land 304a on friday night, we had four boats from vietnam land -- manned by vietnamese or other nationals attack two islands and we expended 1000 rounds of ammunition. we probably shot up a radar station in other buildings. areatroyer in the undoubtedly led them to connect us to that. >> during the second of august attacks, there was a ton of electronic intelligence and signals intelligence in between the boats, directing them all the way through the time of the attack and withdrawal and damage of the ships.

during the fourth of august, at the moment you hear the destroyers reporting torpedoes in the water, there is no electronic signal. there is no communications being picked up. submarine which the inicymakers moves -- used -- the original, we sacrificed two comrades but all are brave. when you go back to the original, you see the word comrades. when you go to the summaries, you see the word boats. hugeoats sounds like a attack. two comrades, we believe, were people wounded on the second of august. not shot on the fourth of august. there was no attack on the fourth of august rate of by going back and looking at the originals, which is what the

national security agency should have done at the time, but did not. instead they prepared a chronology that would show your irrefutablyshow what the president said on national television. >> the initial attack on the destroyer maddox was completed today by a number of hostile vessels attacking two u.s. destroyers with torpedoes. this labor day on the c-span network, on c-span at 5:30 eastern, and education department summit on bullying in schools. at 8:00, bill nye the science guy and creation museum founder ken hamm discuss evolution. clyburn talks about his life from his youth to his

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