east of saigon, these men have gone beyond. they will launch an equally important campaign of civic action. another side of the american navy in vietnam. to these men, their work on asjects is just as important the work airship men do in more conventional surroundings. huntley. for most of us, this is the united states navy. the aircraft carrier, the cruiser, and the destroyer. strengthen across the ocean of the world. in vietnam, the american navy has done an unprecedented variety of different of jobs. with the army, it has been at an advisor to the south enemies and sent the marines to fight the land war. with the air force, it flies the planes that provide air haulers. agencies, pursues a vigorous program of civic action. these are the capabilities demonstrated by a modern naval force in action. the american navy in vietnam. ♪ ♪ >> july, 1964. off the coast of vietnam, the u.s. seventh fleet troll the -- fleet patrol the waters of the south china sea. to help the people of south vietnam defend themselves against an armed com

narrator: in saigon at the command center of u.s.al forces vietnam, naval activities throughout the country are coordinated. >> bluebird, 30 aircraft has a suspicious contact in the restricted zone. narrator: one of the major efforts of this command is operation market time, the navy's name for the important task of coastal surveillance. >> we have a destroyer in the area. i recommend we send the destroyer to investigate this contact. narrator: in this case a destroyer escort is assigned to examine a spacious contact reported by air patrol. -- suspicious contract reported by air patrol. vietnamese navy liaison officers are assigned to each chip, check identity papers and cargo manifests. supply does not hold viet cong guns and a munitions, hulls are inspected. each day brings thousands of fishing ships to the coastal waters of vietnam. the enormous task of operation market time is to guard against the use of normal market activity as a cover for smuggling and infiltration by the vietcong. in addition to destroyers and minesweepers, m

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after the war ended. >> are you saigon cowboy or saigon v.c.?se kids slept in the streets, shined shoes and washed people's motorbikes and things like that, to have money to live. and i think over the course of seven years, probably in the area of 2,500 children went through the project. >> a person being a conscientious objector, i think that's perfectly valid. at that time, i would have said something more like, "well, find a way you can serve your country, and if you don't want to be in the military, maybe you can be in something else." >> reporter: two americans with very different perspectives on the vietnam war and sense of service in the '60s, now find themselves on a common mission a dangerous legacy of the war that continues to plague a new generation of vietnamese. >> i got diagnosed with a cancer that was listed on v.a. list as being caused by agent orange. and so, that was one of the reasons why i asked to meet people in vietnam that had agent orange diseases. >> reporter: most american tourists passing through danang airport don't k

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it's been more than 40 years now since saigon fell, the war ended. ken, why now? what's important about what happened back then to tell today in 2017? >> you know, very simply we've now got the distance, the perspective that allows us to understand more clearly what had taken place, the passions have not cooled down. but you're able to, with new scholarship, with aging of the veteran population, with the aging also of the protest population, an opportunity to revisit this really, really difficult period. >> lynn, i think you've said -- i read that the vietnam war has been poorly understood. what do you mean by that, and what are you hoping to clarify? >> there's a lot happening in different places at the same time, and it took a long time for us to even understand how to tackle it. we went back to the beginning, which you have to go back to the 19th century to understand colonialism, world war ii, the cold war. political dynamics here and what it was like for ordinary people in vietnam and here. and we felt it was important to see this not just from an american pe

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flew the film back myself, took the film back, and dropped it on the photo desk in saigon. they processed it, and i went out on another operation back up north. 37 years, this picture got circulated, and there were stories done about a lot of things on vietnam. --s picture scene to send a seemed to end up as sort of an icon for a lot of the written stories. mine,re was a friend of who i work with, at the paper. came in one day, and he had this photograph. he said i just saw this photograph -- and he had been in vietnam. been in the army, and he worked for "stars and stripes." and he said, who shot this, your dad? he was teasing me. i said, uncle phil, no. i called him uncle phil. he said, do you know what happened to this fellow? i said, i have no idea. but it is the only picture i have hanging in my house, in my den, from the war. my wife, nancy, used to dust it and say, i know he made it home. i bet he lives on the west coast and has a couple of kids and made it just find. i said i hope you are right. it is the one thing that has always haunted me. the "washington post" t

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. >> east of saigon at a small village near the coast, these men have gone beyond their basic mission of military action to launch an equally important campaign of civic action. another side of the american navy in vietnam. to these men, their work on projects which will result in civic achievement is just as important as the work their shipmates do a more conventional label surroundings -- naval surroundings. to most of us, this is the united states navy. the aircraft carrier, the cruiser, and destroyer. the modern deepwater navy extending america's strength across the oceans of the world. but in vietnam, the american navy has done an unprecedented variety of different jobs. it has held command responsibility for all support activities. with the army, it has been advisor to the south vietnamese and has sent the marines to help fight the land for. with the air force, it flies the planes which provide airpower. with civilian agencies, it pursues a vigorous program of civic actions. these are the all-around capabilities demonstrated by a modern, versatile naval force in action. the amer

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unfortunately, we have spent most of the last 42 years since the fall of saigon not discussing it and so much new information and new access to vietnam with veterans coming forward with their stories and people involved, protests. what this film does, what we tried to do is aggregate all of the most recent scholarship and speak to veterans from the united states and people across a wide spectrum of american views, because we have no political agenda or asked to write. we are umpires. interviewing people in north vietnam and south vietnam, and civilians and soldiers to get a ,60 view and a space to finally after decades of rancor and to talk about it, find a way to do it. we had an underwriter in bank of ,merica who was willing to say we want you to take on complicated questions and let's have a national dialogue. we feel fortunate to come out of it ready to share with the country. host: the new scholarship and interviews, how did you find them? people infound vietnam and the united states, through word-of-mouth, through our advisors, one veteran went to another who had families who lo

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he got off the chopper, he went to the left, i went to the right and got on an airplane to saigon. i went out on another operation the next day. years, this picture got circulated and there were stories about vietnam and this picture seem to end up as sort of an icon for some of the written stories. a friend i worked with at the paper, he had been in the army and worked for stars and stripes. he said who shot this, you dad. he was teasing. i said, uncle phil no. it was me, i have to admit. he said what happened to this fella. i said this is the only photograph i have in my den from the war. my wife used to say he may do just fine. i kept saying to her, i hope you are right. it is the one thing that has always haunted me. he said we should find this man, which he did. his brother had contacted me, he knew i took the photograph years before and i told phil he lived in atlanta, georgia and always had this hanging in their home. his brother told me on his 14th birthday richard was killed by a sniper. i never knew that for many years. until phil is a story --did this story and we went d

and the presidential powers in saigon so johnson is getting all this information and he gets on the phone and call the republican senators like edward dirksen and he said i'm leaving and this is darn near treason. will he confronts nixon and nixon denies it but it has actually happened and the great tragedy in this story is that there really was a piece deal and the soviets said if he would do a bombing hault became promised there will be productive talks. we will get the north vietnamese to the table so when nixon saw this dirty trick johnson actually believed it was a chance to end the war but nixon intercedes and the south vietnamese pullback and the peace talks don't happen. nixon is selected in one of the closest elections in american history. 43% of the vote. with only 43% of the vote. the story came out over the years the nixon eyes deny the pretty v. back to watch the famous cross nixon interviews david frost asked them specifically did you send her to talk to the south vietnamese and he says no, i would never do something like that. the last big piece of the puzzle in the peace t

when they got there they realized the reports from the field were not what the press officers in saigonthe pentagon were saying. twothen we have these presidents, johnson nx and, who were tape-recording themselves andforgotten it -- johnson nixon. we are trying to do a lot of of story of so-called ordinary people and then you have this more abstract top-down policy consideration. but when you have a guy making that policy showing his anxieties and his concerns, or you hear -- charlie: he is almost crying out to his friends saying what do i do. he doesn't want his friends to die. hide, or makerun, it stop. you feel that tension. with nixon, you hear the calculation that run counter to what the positive public pronouncements are about the war. charlie: including the generals. lynn: what is devastating if are getting advice that it will not work out. they get accurate advice from the cia intelligence. this is not going well and it will not work out and yet somehow the option to not do it is not an option that it has been taken seriously. johnson was scared of the idea that he might be the

but unfortunately, we have spent most of the last 42 year since the fall of saigon not discussinging it and there has been so much new information, new scholarship, new access to vietnam. veterans are coming forward with their poignant story. protests of the war are coming forward. and i think what this film does is aggregate all the most recent scholarship and speak to veterans from the united states and people across a wide spectrum of american views because we have no political agenda or no ax to grind. but also interview people in north vietnam and south vietnam and civilians and soldiers and guerrillas to get a 360 view and create a space where we can finally find a way to do it and fortunately we had an underwriter in bank of america that was willing to say, you know, we want you to take on complicated he questions aquest have a national dialogue about that. so we feel fortunate that we've come out of this ten year program ready to share with the country aimed at everybody. >> so as far as this new scholarship, where did they come from, how did you find them? >> we found people

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vietnam and i came to the united states as a refugee with my family several years after the fall of saigon in 1975. i'm honored to represent a district in central florida that includes orlando and the northern suburbs. i'm also a member of the house armed services committee where i serve on the committee for readiness and emerging threats and capabilities. in addition, along with congressman from massachusetts and jimmy pannetta from california, i cochair the house democratic caucus national security task force. the purpose of this recently established taskforces to help democrats in congress purports strong, strategic national security policy.ad to support the current administration when it advances policy that align with our nations core interest in values and opposeon the administration when it proposes policies that undermine those interests and values. as leaders of the task force, f we don't really see any value in reflectively opposing the administration, now are any more value in blindly supporting them. i think it's about being fair and presenting smart and strong policies that wo

only when they got there they realized the reports from the field were not what the press offices in saigonr the pentagon were saying. they suddenly become our agents, what is going on? and then we have these two presidents, johnson and nixon. they are tape-recording themselves and had forgotten it. which is the greatest gift to historians. charlie: we will hear from johnson. but we will hear his doubts about the war. ken: usually we are trying to do a bottom-up story of so-called ordinary people and then you have this more abstract top-down policy consideration. but when you have a guy making that policy, showing his anxieties and his concerns, or you hear -- charlie: he is almost crying out to his friends, saying, what do i do? i do not want to send these young men to die. ken: he said i feel like a jack -- in a texas hailstorm. nixon, you can hear the calculations that run counter to what the positive public pronouncements are about the war. charlie: including the generals. lynn: what is devastating is they are getting advice it is not going to work out. they have very accurate advice fr

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we have helped a young lady put her through cu, and have a daughter in law that is an escapee from saigon during the war. [indiscernible] >> nathan who is passing up the pins is a veteran himself. [applause] johnston. is curtis drafted 25.5 years old. did not make it -- well, at 26 that is when the draft cut off, so i did not make it. they drug me -- [laughter] >> no, heel marks in the concrete, that is me. i was a combat medic, 19th infantry division. there from march of 1968-1969. ninth infantry division. and i am back. [laughter] [applause] evening, my name is joel, i was a combat infantry man with the fourth interface -- fourth entergy -- infantry. i participated in the battle of -- feather in 1968. may of 1968, which was the worst time for me, i was involved in tet we called the v -- offensive. so here i am and i am glad i made it back. i think it was my mother's prayers that saved me and i am forever grateful for that. thank you much. [applause] >> my name is keith. i was drafted in 1969 and i as a 1542, if that rings any bells for anybody command that is a military mos, which is a

you know, 75% of the population was born after 1975 in the fall of saigon, but they're curious about about lbj and nixon, but jfk, where is jfk in all of this? >> he starts off as a young congressman who's opposed to any intervention but then grav taits as his own ambitions go. and you begin to see that all the major decisions about vietnam are based on domestic political considerations, which is a polite way of saying will i be re-elected. by the time he's assassinated in dallas, there's 17,000 advisers and his foreign policy apparatus marz over into the johnson administration and plows us into the boots on the ground and even further involvement. he starts off against it. by the time he's a senator with greater ambitions, he like the vice president of the united states, richard nixon, like the great leader of the senate, lyndon johnson, they are for it. >> speaking about nixon, also talk about history rhyming, that little anecdote about nixon and the war as part of the collusion. >> we're talking about whether the trump campaign consciously worked with russia to influence this elec

vietnam and i came to the united states as a refugee with my family several years after the fall of saigonin 1925. i'm honored to represent a district in central florida that includes orlando and the northern suburbs and i'm also a member of the house of armed services committee where i serve on the subcommittee for readiness and the subcommittee for emerging threats and capability. in addition, along with harassment seth from massachusetts and congressman from california i cochair the house democratic caucus is national security task force. the purpose of this recently established tech force is to help democrats in congress proposed strong, smart and strategic national security policies. and to support the current administration when it advances policy, foreign policies that comport with our nations court interests and values and to vigorously oppose the administration when it proposes policies that undermine those interests and values. as leaders of the task force we don't really see any value in reflexively opposing the administration nor any more values in blindly supporting them. i th