read this in the can he was there as a treat. you're watching our t.v. now here's a recap of our top stories for this hour all dryas ross nafta and b.p. swap stocks worth billions of dollars as they team up to explore. the russian arctic continental shelf it's the first major deal for b.p. following last summer's oil spill disaster in the gulf of mexico. as more americans continue to lose their jobs in the country's continuing economic crisis some working for the government in washington d.c. but doing just fine in the recession now while they enjoy bonuses and pay rises those in the private sector find little shelter from the harsh realities of the

recession. and it pupils in india and abroad in kashmir are being forced to give up their traditional winter break after supper just violent shut their schools in the summer they now have to make up for lost classes but some say the move is also the beginning of a backlash against separatists did that. well be here with more news in less than thirty minutes but you can always follow developments on our website dot com well up next our special report on the start of the anti vietnam war movement in the u.s. in the nine hundred sixty s. that altered the course of history. in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the united states government began sending combat troops to south vietnam. was make sure to go. ask yourself what's going to happen to all the other. america's 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 people are better informed. that traditional american ingenuity and if you. are better as a post fast. and understand what the war is all about. young . english and. living. in this understand it

might be. different if the good. news here are when your good little basic training this crap and reports get to school or school or. 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 still. they tried to trick me into a killer they tried to trick me into somebody who would take another life it's just one thing it will i feel i could ever call. this so i didn't either. the predator. in my hand. in my little theory you could say that for proper life. you know to those almost three in which serve it. wasn't too much to do on a troop ship sold showed up. a lot of time to get to where we are what we're doing

. and 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 berets and on ships that flourished in army stockades maybe briggs in the dingy towns and 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 confessed 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 their 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 input tiger they were bombing the hell out of the villages. i

was out on patrol. and near hip well and. we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. their patrol was led by americans but every vietnamese arvin there and they were turned over to our and. our then use the old fashioned methods of interrogation force torture that was pretty common practice. i tell you as bad as that that is that treatment was the cynicism that attached to it was a part that was really sickening and death of everything i've been taught your thing i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way you treat human beings. there's a long time for that you could have because i think yes. i got out of the military in nine hundred sixty six i got over because of the things i saw the things i was

doing and this reasons that we were given for doing that it was a personal protest it was just me getting out of the service and there was no movement to join i found the war in vietnam more and more repulsive 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 lot of 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 him 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 martialed a few days later i got to court martial nokes. howard levy spent three years in prison. along with him through fort hood who refused orders to vietnam and received

five years hard labor and a dishonorable discharge army lieutenant henry how. the demonstration reading. fascist aggression in vietnam was sentenced to two years and two marines. 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 sixty six. the featured speaker meeting at the town hall in manhattan. 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 where the quassia is 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 will give me the 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. they. would inch i don't know how many but i know how many i met the numbers 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 the north vietnamese and national liberation front arms 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 can nationalize stage. we joined together. in july my two sixty eight we took sanctuary in a church and changed our sense 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're resigning from the military come again it's. the

fact that it took them three days to decide how to deal with this tactically most great. i had nothing to lose. and i 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. yeah and that was my introduction to the server to scope presidio. the population structure usually upwards i think it could hold it be sixty and there were so sometimes double that in there. were crowded. toilets for. sure 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 and veterans i was 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 three bullets and drop the leaflets on the trades. ballasts and balance and reflect on one point i know we were a little concerned about getting shot. but nothing. evidently they landed pretty

accurately what they testified to. and on my way. i decided. my opinion. far. as a. person i certainly had the same rights that i could. protesting. sees in 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 keith mathare 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 the work detail. for the guards shot him and killed him point blank. i want to be there. for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers. so we reacted. this really. with. our bridge. we. started because we started playing we came to a decision that we could do was to have some kind of

a demonstration and it was at the roll call formation we had a signal that was we were supposed to break ranks and we did and we walked over here and sat down at a certain point. commandant came out red as. we just kept saying louder and kind of linked arms and saying we were scared me and 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 he said that they thought that the revolution was about to start and they really had to set an 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 a neighbor you know within two days of being the stockade i was on your space and that's the. first thing we should.

nationwide see this idiot when he said. i was wounded three times while i was in the bush and then third time i was wounded was on december twentieth sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars a sort of like a human wave a. guy came up behind her all of his rifle in all and i saw the front side of an a k forty seven a muzzle flash i am sixteen point zero and i. told my target what i saw. and a bullet hit me in the news and i blacked out came to

a few minutes later and. i knew it was shattered. after the fighting ended in the sun came up and they carried me over to the. me and he was sitting up against a tree and he had three bullet holes. in his. good. and. and i think you know. a lot of it was just a matter of. when i started thinking oh i wonder if he had a girlfriend and it was from his mother's going to find things like. this is when you just went through the experience of that nature and you find out that it's all lies and you're just lying to the american people and your silence means that you're part of people. i mean i couldn't be so. to my friends and to the country in general. i don't

consider the first but it was the first. was you know. them and put them in the face afterwards. to make. every case for all of the justness that he was fighting for who i believe he was fighting for his country so i became involved in the whole as. with more and more soldiers turning against the war handful of peace activists open the first of what would become a network of dozens of antiwar g.i. coffee houses located in the towns that hover near military bases. the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood twenty thousand troops became home of the g.i. coffee house known as the. right

. and i'm in the army and the minute an hour my. name only 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 in 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 em was like one period to go out on the ambush and sneak good to people in. the early morning and stuff. because then you get the guy who's there. a majority of women are they doing what they're grand they were very. very good and they're there for him something that anyone or anyone thinks he can back out of them and hopefully be

a part of the not any that he's making because of the supporting the war. who put on his cropped up at several army bases these days it's all gone 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 and it's called the last harass they freaked out and they were freaking out this is authorized by terrio and this is a person material you're not a lot of have any copies of this inside the barracks goes turnus in the media late that night then the paper there were one a round in the barracks everybody's reading it two or three guys a time sitting around on a bed around guys beds and stuff like that checking out this paper what i liked about it was the fact that the officers hated to be. if they had.

typed mimeographed printed. explode at. fort hood texas. station the face just. shortly after the first issue was published that found at the press peterson was pulled over by the police. today trial in a texas court peterson was sentenced to eight years in prison for. the

military's. became the life of the g.i. movement as the army recruiting slogan traveling the country turned into the popular g.i. expression. pressley 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 medals and. you know i grew up during the good wars here's this one. 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 chiapas 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 like that you have to be a show mr president that's a terrible demonstration going on outside all there'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 davis of 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 the storming the why how i guess i better call it the third marine you can't richard why not the third marine. corps year program or maybe bob hope toured be taming 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. 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 from 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 if you will be. washed i should. feel all the way should be exempt from all military.

all really good life where she's right where you are being. i'm not being a president. i'm not. guys are comfortable with the country so you good people come in with different information about black palace strobe light that i mean you know black you need to feel really good about yourself even to really question if you will be able. but i remember one day the first saw james talking about kooks and naive i was i didn't know he was rich and. i didn't really understand that you know one day he was talking about groups and i remember like went over my head the sort of. the same things and then . things began to start clicking in my head like when we don't know.

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