three thirty in the morning here in moscow and here are our top stories for this hour the russian state energy company british petroleum have announced a major deal to jointly develop arctic oil and gas fields includes a stock swap between the companies given both. stakes in each other. nuclear arms reduction treaty between moscow and washington is approved by the russian parliament in the second of three readings the start which was side last year already been given to go ahead by. justice despite no extradition treaty between washington and kabul terrorist

suspects are being set to stand trial in the us courts critics say the process could mean america is in breach of international law. and next report about the war movement within the ranks of the us military during the vietnam war. in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the united states government began sending combat troops to south vietnam. ask yourself what's going to happen to all the other little america stated goal was to spread democracy and defend freedom but thirty years later the legacy of that ten year war which left fifty thousand americans and over three million vietnamese dead still remains unsettled and in the decades of debate that followed the end of the war some stories have yet to be heard.

today your soldiers sailors airmen marines and coast guard are better educated. are better informed. that traditional american ingenuity and if you. are better as a post fast. and understand what the war is all about. killing . the ceiling. listening. to misunderstand it might be. different to the good. news here are we near gurnall in basic training this savander portraiture school or school and i want to. really get over it i try to spend my whole life having people live

a better life and basically feel better that's what nurses till. they tried to trick me into a kill they tried to trick me into somebody who would take a life it's just one thing in real life i feel like that ever called. the so i didn't know that. the president. in my hand. in my little theory you could say that there were probably. like. those almost three in which it. wasn't too much to do on a troop ships. a lot of times. we go back and forth back and forth. we always are looking for. the right thing because. during the vietnam war an antiwar movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in barracks and

on ships that flourished an army stockades navy griggs and a dingy town surrounded military bases. it penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. it was a movement no one expected least of all those seven hundred twenty prison and thousands into exile and by nine hundred seventy one it had in the words of one colonel infest the entire armed services. today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. and i was really proud of what i thought i was doing there earliest days of the war planted the seeds for the movement to come even among the first american troops in vietnam the elite green berets the problem i had was realizing that what i was doing was not good i was doing it right but i wasn't doing the right. i was asked to train green beret

people special forces men why were they training these guys to dermatology well they were training them to do dermatology in vietnam because they knew that if they were able to offer a few simple remedies and help cure a few children of some simple bacterial infections that that would shape themselves to the vietnamese community and you know you remember the phrase the winning the hearts and minds of the people so this was this was how you were going to win the hearts and minds of the people and while they were offering the bandaids of helping to cure a few cases of him to tie go they were bombing the hell out of the villages. i was out on patrol. and near him. and. we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. patrol was led by americans but there were vietnamese are in there and they were turned over

to our and. our the news the old fashioned methods of interrogation force torture that was pretty common practice. i tell you as bad as the bed is that treatment was the cynicism that attached to it was the part that was really sickening and death of everything i've been talking to the thing i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way you treat human beings. and it's all down for that you could have the cause think yes. i got out of the military in nine hundred sixty six because of the things i saw the things i was doing and this reasons we were given for doing a personal protest it was just me getting out of the service and there was no movement to join i found the war. and i felt that i just couldn't be a part of it eventually i said look i'm not training you guys anymore i don't agree

with what you're doing i think it's immoral i think it's medically unethical and i just stopped the clinic. it took a few weeks for the army to catch up with that and when they did they invited me into the commanding officer office and said look what are you doing here and i told them exactly what i was doing i said i'm not training and they said well you know you should know the consequences of that and i said i'm perfectly aware of the consequences but i'm not training at that point it was obvious that it was going to be court martialled a few days later i got to court martial. howard levy spent three years in prison. along with him three g.i.'s at fort hood who refused orders to vietnam and received five years hard labor and a dishonorable discharge army lieutenant henry how who carried a sign at a demonstration reading and johnson's fascist aggression in vietnam was sentenced to two years and two marines william harvey and george daniel received six to ten

year sentences for organizing a meeting about whether black people should fight in vietnam. and on march third one thousand nine hundred eighty six former green beret donald duncan was the featured speaker at an antiwar meeting at the town hall in manhattan i just wanted to do what i knew about it. and let people judge for themselves. i think the most startling thing to me occurred however as the court martial began what would happen was we would walk from the parking lot to the building with a quad wash was being held and it was the most remarkable thing when hundreds hundreds of g.i. s. would hang out of windows out of the barracks and give me the v. sign well give me that clenched fist this was mine but to me this was a revelation and at that point it really became crystal clear to me that something

had changed and that something very very important was happening. oh. i wouldn't i don't know how many but i know how many i met was a majority of the men that i met in the service were opposed but really didn't know how to force their opinion. yes. nine hundred sixty eight was the turning point by then america had over a half a million troops in south vietnam during the lunar new year holiday called tet the enemy of the north vietnamese a national liberation front our means launched an offensive that overran the entire country before being pushed back the tet offensive revealed that the enemy had widespread support from the vietnamese people and america was mired in

a war it couldn't win and the soldiers beginning to question the war in the wake of the tet offensive thousands began going a wall or absent without leave many found their way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. antiwar movement onto the national stage. we joined together. in my two sixty eight we took sanctuary in a church and change ourselves for ministers. we essentially called the press and said to them we're not going to get on we were refusing orders and in fact we were resigning from the military to come and get it . the fact that it took them three days to decide how to deal with this to play great. had nothing to lose. and they had no idea what was going to come and that's a free place it's a really free place you know you're you know what's going to happen you know where

you're going but you know what you're doing. and that was my introduction to the servants the scope presidio stuck to. the population for sure usually upwards i was going i think it could hold like it be sixty and there were some sometimes double that in there. were crowded. toilets . guards were mean there was because of the fun. with the nine for peace held in military prisons soldiers throughout the bay area began planning for the first war demonstration in the country organized by g.i.'s in veterans i was in a member of the medical committee for human rights we got together

a number of times and talked about how we were going to organize active duty to go to the peace demonstration and then i remember also hearing about the b. fifty two bombers that were dropping leaflets on vietnam urging the vietnamese to defect and i thought well if they can do it overseas. we can hire a small private plane loaded up with leaflets and drop the leaflets on the trades. concerned. nothing. pretty accurately that's what they testified to. and in my. opinion to the demonstration i decided. in. my opinion. that we're.

talking. to judy person i certainly have the same rights that he did and i could wear my uniform protesting united states. susan court martial by the navy for making a political statement while in uniform and following the march for a turn themselves into the presidio army stockade was being held so had been assigned kind of by the movement people to go into the stockade and find out what was going on because they had been they had shot this prisoner and killed him or nineteen year old private michael bunch life in the army had been little more than a series of a wall violations his last stop was here the presidio stockade where he was fatally shot last friday while trying to escape from a work detail. for the guards shot even killed him point blank.

for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers. so . he reacted. this really. with anger and disgust in our marriage. he toured. with the wires over the walls we ripped the squawk box off the wall and then things start to calm down because we started playing we came to a decision that best thing we could do was to have some kind of a demonstration and it was at the roll call of formation we had a signal that was we were supposed to break ranks and we did and then we walked over here and sat down at a certain point commandant came out and read us. and we just kept saying louder and kind of linked arms and saying we were scared man i'll tell you we were really

scared we have them right where we want to finally listening to us man that's the first time i can ever remember anybody listening to us while i was in the military . the commanding general of the sixth army which was the jurisdiction and he said that they thought that the revolution was about to start and they really had to set of example you know come down hard and we were the guys that they decided to do that with and they did it i mean we were on trial for a life. you know i kind of came in as unable. to days a bit in the stockade i was i was facing that's. for singing we shall overcome. nationwide to the city and when he said.

i was wounded three times while i was in the bush and then third time i was well under was on the one hundred sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars a sort of like a human wave. all. right . and. me and he was.

good. and. i think you know. things like. nature and. people and. people. i mean i couldn't be so. but it was. the words.

he was fighting for. with more and more soldiers turning against the war. in the first of what would become a network of dozens of thing. or g.i. coffee houses located in the towns that hover near military bases. the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which talented over twenty thousand troops became home of the g.i. coffee house known as the army officer for not. being in the army you know here and then out right. i can sit here and i can get i'm in the army the minute an hour stuff like. name only i was struck came from a shock absorber on a helmet so that's what the only goes through it was it was

a place where you go there and it's old soldiers and they had a record player and all the latest rock records and underground papers and using out right. and to go out on ambush like one period to go out on the ambush and sneak good to people you know the early morning and stuff. because they've got to get there but you know who's there. a mentor any woman if you're a member they do right there right there are very. very good and they're they're friends of. anyone anyone who thinks they can back out of this and hopefully be a part of the not and see any of that he's making a mistake because he's supporting the war. you know put on one of his cropped up at several army bases these days a so-called underground g.i. press which consists largely of anti-war newspapers military authorities are

clamping down hard on the papers recently when there was an underground newspaper laying on the bed. is called the last harass they freaked out they were freaking out this is the rise but terio and this is a person material here got a lot of how many copies this inside the barracks go. the paper. read. this paper it was the fact that the officers hated. they had to be something that was. typed mimeographed printed. underground press exploded. fort benning georgia. fort hood texas the press.

station on the face and we used to distribute it. shortly after the first issue was published that found at the press peterson was pulled over by fort hood police. following a two day trial in a texas court peterson was sentenced to eight years in prison. by the military for the underground press became the life blood of the g.i. movement as the army's own recruiting slogan travellin adventure turned into the

popular g.i. expression of the. presley soldiers around the world and inspired many outside the military you know i grew up believing that if our flag was flying over a battlefield that we were on the side of the angels my father fought in the second world war he won awards and and medals. you know i grew up during the good wars here's this woman who steps out onto the world stage is a famous actress comes from one of the ruling class families in hollywood and makes a political decision to change sides she steps onto the side of the people and particularly the vietnamese people she stands with the g.r.s. and she stands with the movement she says i'm going to stand with this i'm going to give vent i'm going to help support it and build it you know settle it that you have to show mr president that's a terrible demonstration going on outside although it's always a demonstration going on outside but richard this one is completely out of control i want to ask you point this time brianna to update us on all political prisoners

out of vietnam now and draft all government officials we have people they care about their job you do your job and i'll do my job without you don't understand how they're storming the why how an actor sabbatical at the third marine you can't richard why not the third marine. for years program or maybe bob hope toured be entertaining american troops but soon the cheers turned to jeers and a new kind of entertainment emerged. howard levy himself a celebrity within the g.i. movement he met with donald sutherland and me and he said what if we put together. an antiwar show that's you know the opposite side of the coin from the from the bob hope show. they took one look at my. life.

after the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the army. here was a way that i could combine my profession my acting with my desire to end the war it just seemed like a perfect fit. for this show that we bring to these bases is not trying to tell the people on the bases anything that they don't know we are coming in response to what is probably the most powerful movement going on in this country the movement of the man inside the military and women who are beginning to understand how they're being used and what the nature of american foreign policy is and we come there because they have asked us to come there because for the last year we have read in the newspapers from vietnam from from west germany from okinawa from the philippines

and from what we want is entertainment we want people to speak to how we feel and the majority of us don't know why we're going over there that we don't know why we're being shot up we don't know why our bodies that were being killed we don't know why we're killing those people. i'm sorry we're doing. the washing machine here. all day they should be exempt from all military. all related that way as you well. know. i'm not being present. i'm not being. guys are comfortable with a country so you good people come in with different information about black power struggle at that you know black you need to feel really good about yourself even to

really question the community of me. but i remember one day the first saw james talking about. naive i was i was a racist i didn't really understand it you know one day he was talking about groups and i remember like went over my head that's of. the same things and then. things began to start clicking in my head like what don't know.

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