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mark bowden will join the discussion. he is the author of "hue 1968." we are live. >> we're waiting for this discussion on the vietnam war's tet offensive to get under way. participating in the discussion tonight, mark bowden, the author of "hue 1968," former stars & stripes combat photographer john olson and three marines who fought in hue. >>> stand up for freedom, knowing we'll be free one day. ♪ >> i always think of the newseum as the home of freedom. >> i don't know where this nation would be. i don't know where i would be today without the guarantees of the first amendment. >> there's a war against information. there's a battle over who controls information. >> what a democracy should do in talk about it. >> engage in the news. be a citizen of the world. give a damn. ♪ >> we must come to see with one of our distinguished jurists that justice too long delayed is justice denied. >> religion and our beliefs are part of people's core identities. >> very interesting to feel that you are protected by law and you have support to pursue your life freely.

mark bowden will join the discussion. he is the author of "hue 1968."s former stars & stripes , photographer john olson, and also three marines who fought in hue.

mark bowden will join the discussion. he is the author of "hue 1968." plus former stars & stripes , photographer john olson, and also three marines who fought in hue. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to the newseum's theater. i am peter prichard, chair of the newseum and we are here to mark the opening of our latest inibit, the marines and -- tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war. this is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if you're a millennial, i will explain it. it was a coordinated offensive by viet cong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities, and american and south vietnamese military facilities. it began on the night of january 30, 1968. i remember it well because i was an intelligence clerk at the time. our new exhibit showcases the work of john olson, who, like me, was a young draftee. he was a photographer for "stars & stripes", a daily newspaper. he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue, in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war.

visit ncicap.org] week on q&a, mark bowden discusses his book. >> mark bowden author of hue 1968. what was it? >> it's a city in vietnam, third vietnam aty in south the time, and the scene of bloodiest e biggest battle fought in the vietnam war, or what the vietnamese call the american war. you know that a lot has been written about this so how did differently? it >> this is the first time that a have list like me would access to vietnamese participants. so i was able to tell the story the eyes of both the american soldiers and marines who fought and also the vietnamese, vietcom, north vietnamese army, and i think by, there e has gone is a lot of documentation in the hanoi, as well as in bethesda, maryland, and also the records of the johnson administration, all of william papers are there. johnson's national security really, staff papers, so 50 years is kind of a good time, go back, because the record is established and yet he participants for the most alive.e still tet ll, up till the offensive, which this was part of, in january of 1968, the administration and general westmorel

brian: mark bowden, hue, what was it?ark: a city in the war, the -- the scene of probably the biggest, bloodiest battle fought in the vietnam war. or with the the enemies call the , american vietnam war. brian: how did you approach this differently? mark: this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet -- vietnamese participants. i was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and -- who fought and also the vietnamese viet cong. i think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives and hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archives. there are also the records of the johnson administration at the lbj library. all of william westmoreland's papers are there. johnson's national security council staff papers. so 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. the record is established. the participants are still alive. brian: in the early part of the book you say the battle would be the bloodiest of the war and a t

we'll see you soon. >> now i would like to introduce mark bowden and our distinguished panel. please give them a warm welcome. >> all right. thank you all for coming tonight. as i heard in the introductions, i published a book recently about the battle of hue. and in reporting that book, i think both because i'm a journalist and also because i'm here at the newseum tonight, i should say i was every bit as interested in the coverage of the battle as i was in the battle itself. and as part of that work, i tracked down the journalists who were in the middle of this fi t fight. one of those who i collided with was john, john olson, in the middle of the battle and took what became some of the most famous images of the battle of hue. i thought we should start tonight since this is your exhibit, john. you said that you had embarked on this project in part because you were interested in filling some gaps in your own memory and understanding of what you've been through. i wonder if you could explain what you mean. >> well, you know, mark, my time in hue was unusual. i was the only comb

. >>> mark bowden in the turning point of the vietnam war in hue in 1968. >>> walter starr explores life of lincoln's secretary of war in, stanton. >>> a team of female code breakers in world war two, by former washington post reporter, liza monday. >>> 10,000 women who were breaking the codes of german naval codes, u-boats, the japanese naval codes, the japanese army, they were reading signals all over the world, including some coming out of north africa. it was a massive effort to recruit college-educated women secretly. so women at the seven sisters schools were tapped secretly. they were called into private interviews with math professors and astronomy professors. they were asked two questions. do you like crossword puzzles and are you engaged to be married. [laughter]. and a number of them actually lied at the second question, said they were not. because whatever they were being invited to do, quite a bit more interesting than waiting around while their fiance was fighting and was risking his life in the war. so the women came to washington. those women joined the navy. ultimately w

mark bowden recalls the turning point of the vietnam war in hawaii, 1968. biographer walter starr explores the life of abraham lincoln's secretary of war in stanton. code girls profiles a secret team of female codebreakers during the world war ii. it's by former washington post reporter liza mundy. >> more than 10,000 women who were breaking the codes of the german naval codes, the u-boats, the japanese naval codes, the japanese army, they were reading signals all over the world including some that were coming out of north africa. so it was a massive effort to recruit college-educated women secretly. so women at the seven sisters schools were tapped secretly, they were called in to private interviews with math professors and astronomy professors. they were asked two questions, to you like crossword puzzles, and are you engaged to be married. [laughter] and a number of them actually lied at the second question and said that they were not because whatever they were being invited to do sounded quite a bit more interesting than waiting around -- [laughter] whil

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mark bowden will join the discussion. he is the author of "hue 1968." we are live.

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