i was a child during the vietnam war, really. i was living in turkey while my dad was reporting for armed forces radio. he remembers the war much more vividly than i do. but for both my dad's generation and for mine, the war is preserved for our reflection and study. it's history in words and images captured by some of the most impressive journalists on the planet, the associated press. over the time of the vietnam war, ap won 6 pulitzer prizes for coverage, or both stories and breaking news photography. some of the greatest names in war correspondence staffed the ap bureau, malcolm brown, peter arnett, nick ut, george esper, eddie adams, just to name a few. ap's photo coverage from the vietnam war constitutes more than 25,000 images, now it is almost the 50th anniversary of the war and ap has put together the first-ever collections of these images to tell the story of the conflict in vietnam. the book, vietnam: the real war, which of course i am blocking, a photographic history by the associated press, is a collection of 300 of t

the u.s. public. vietnamwho went to and had contact with the vietnamese, we felt it was our obligation to support the demands that were being put forward in paris by the vietnamese. from our stripe of the antiwar movement, we supported what we call victory to the vietnamese. ho chi minh,, vietnam is gonna win. we were very clear where we stood. , we did someback work. in this book, my chapter -- i'm the only person of color to contribute to this book. i think that is important because i bring a perspective to it from my experience in the antiwar movement. legal apparatus to deal with the criminal justice system. the asian formed legal services in a storefront in the international hotel. besides criminal services, we did immigration service, income tax, and draft counseling. our draft counseling was well known. anyone who did not want to go into the military would not be drafted. had approximately 1000 cases, even obtaining conscientious objector status for 4 active asian american serviceman. the draft counsel

this is the woodstock generation coming to vietnam. >> the public campaign against the war in vietnamension in washington today. men who have been there began demonstrations armed with speeding the end to the conflict. ♪ bring our brothers home >> business men have protested. students have protested. mothers have protested. everybody has. but the men who fought the war who know what it's like, who know what we are fighting haven't. and it's the first time in history they're going to do that. >> lieutenant died until i got a medal. sergeant john died, so i got a medal. i got a silver star, purple heart. it's in the rest of this garbage. it doesn't mean a thing! >> good evening. the war in vietnam has often been camouflaged by misleading statistics of body counts, weapons captured, hamlets pacified. but we are now in the midst of new more revealing statistics, the 2.5 million words of the pentagon papers. these once secret papers tell the agonizing story of the u.s. involvement in vietnam through four administrations of expanding commitment. the pentagon papers have touched off the deep

the u.s. and vietnam could not be closer. the party general secretary from vietnam visits the white house. presidents office doesn't usually see party leaders. he visits with an hour, he comes up talking about the key thing about why the relationship is so strong is that the u.s. accepted the difference, respected, that vietnam was not going to be the united states terms of democracy, civil rights and human rights. it would have its own path and we would not insist on internal change in vietnam with larger issues between us. we have not gotten to puberty yet. -- we have notas but theo cuba yet administration has taken important steps, but there is a contradictory psychology on whether those steps are a smarter way team change -- to do regime change or if it is like vietnam, and acceptance of new jewelry spectrum we don't agree with what they are doing, but nothing is more precious than freedom. [applause] >> thank you. that was john mcauliffe. his chapters called "the making of a people's diplomat." i want to in -- introduce alex, whose chapter is entitled "journey to the east." [applause]

and %he was the loser bf vietnam and a sinner because supposedly he did not believe american righteousness should guide the foreign policy as cheney had that morality plank inserted into the platform of the republican party that could be anti-kissinger platform but conventional wisdom is wrong if taken as a view of the world that the truth of the facts to be arrived at kissingekissinge r it definitely is not a real test of all the policy makers who would help to shape the post world war ii ruth security state kissinger was of most self aware of the philosophical renditions to justify his actions deeply influenced by the entire rationalist dancer breed -- supremely objective is back considering how often it was used to justify war was imperial existentialism. you could read his undergraduate thesis the longest ever submitted to harvard university 400 pages it is tough. but the echo of the '50s existentialism is clearly present with intense subjectivity that there is no reality that emanates from its own individual experience. that is the odd hallmark of existence other than wh

, the socialist republic of vietnam. and so for really 20 years, in a formal sense, there are no diplomatic ties. steven scully: there are different ways, one of the biggest after the fall of saigon but also in the years that followed, coming to america. talk about that. amanda demmer: as the communist forces are making advances in the anon, -- vietnam, u.s. officials see the fall of saigon coming. and so the infrastructure is laid to try to secure the evacuation of close american allies that would really face significant reprisals if they have stayed. about 125,000 evacuated alongside u.s. personnel in 1975. the really significant disparity between the few that leave and the many that were involved in anti-communist efforts, civil and military officials of south vietnam, they face dire straits, the losing side in what was in vietnam a civil war. this precipitates what scholars call the "refugee question." not only are there these statements about people that shows a powerless journey, there are the offspring of american

and the idea as it starts to leak into the civilian world a little bit her garble moss grew up vietnam. this is the first true one. >> eisenhower in particular by then they hadn't won dash inherited that satellite program. but is the amazing images as a very short list with 23,000 photographs of the year and of the earth. and in this world where we see so much from so much perspective with the idea these are the first images of whether that he saw what looked like over egypt this st. lawrence river and he spoke to the nation of his great pride with the big "national geographic" to be dead but not that long ago when they could first savings from. >> you have mentioned in the beginning that uses scientist in the country and one of these to me that people just don't know about. like american foreign policy that we still have it today it is pretty extraordinary after darpa was assembled is when the others the mayor may not have known charlestown's it is in a very important but. >> it began 1960 as a group that is referred to ruth by the government as a superman of hard finance. there after

the official documents of vietnam recognize china's sovereignty. and the treaties between the united states, and did not include the islands of south china sea as the territory. >> well look, let me ask you this way. china's view is that the united states has been provocative and has this pivot to asia and should butt out of chinese affairs. on the other hand, america's allies in the region, the philippines and vietnam, they don't want to get into a battle about this, i mean literally a military confrontation with china because the u.s. will be involved either way. you make an eloquent argument as to why the spratley islands belong to china, there is some disagreement to this. how do they avoid military confrontation over this? >> there are two ways. produce a peaceful talent to the south china seas. there are two approaches. one is over the dispute of sovereignty. leave that to the ports of concern for bilateral diplomatic negotiations and talks. secondly, the peace and stability, let china and other countries in the southeast asia work together. a

the vietnam is also a time they began to investigate the more questionable technologies. agent orange is one of these technologies of things that i find very interesting. some are outside of the box thinking about winning the war through changing the ability of the vietnamese and moving the weapons. >> they were and continue to be at the cutting edge of science and this is an agency that's working at the problem 25 years. it's spoken of as a pre- required research and that takes us back to that idea of the military-industrial complex is one of the directors who spoke to congress after the vietnam war when they got into trouble by congress saying you are making weapons we don't need and in this point he called it the chicken and the egg problem and said listen, if the need for the weapon system comes along and we haven't already developed if there is a real problem and that is the chicken and the egg problem. >> i want to talk about civilian use of some of the technologies developed because this is where the audience that hadn't heard before would say that's where that's f

the real question is the management of the vietnam war. that war is index for -- tells us who we are to the world and to ourselves and the vietnam war still casts this giant shadow over the country. what happened in the vietnam war. there is this new memo which was buried, no one had ever seen it. i talked to people about it. no, it doesn't exist. there it is. >> dickerson: tell us what the $ilch memo is is. >> nixon in his own handwriting in early '72 starting to run for re-election, saying that the bombing three years the bombing which he ordered and supervised always accomplished zilch, nothing. it was a total failure. of course this contradicts three years of pronouncements about the importance of the bombing. the night before he wrote that he told cbs news dan rather that it was very, very effective. so it's a lie. it is a significant lie because then that year nixon increased and intensified the bombing in their tapes and documents that show that it really was done because bombing was popular, according to the polling. and nixon wante

. >> host: darpa comes of age during the vietnam war. a lot of travel by fire in many respects. a lot of the things that are looked at in vietnam as being potentially problematic about the war were things that darpa either tried to get rid of or were the -- the first ones to appreciate the idea of trying to defeat an insurgency with technology. maybe not the first one. the primary focus was high-tech counterinsurgency strategy. talk about the extent of things like technological operations. >> guest: vietnam was an interesting time for darpa, many different -- they were working on anthropology programs and conventional weapons, the ar-15 was darpa weapon that is now the n 16. early gliders which kind of lead to sell technology. the one that i found the most impact will was lot idea of sensor technology. the coach team in trail was sort of the dreaded problem of the pentagon. all of the fighters, insurgents would come from the north to the south by way of this trail and the secretary of defense figuring out a way to stop this. they saw it almost like it was the human and needed to

. >> lyndon johnson is probably rotting in hell right now because of the vietnam war. needs to know dick cheney. >> what he did today is rather stupefying. that story is next.

all these things are important, but they are not as sexy as the vietnam war or civil rights movement. they did not grant people in that way. the occupy movement did sort of explode for a while, because it dealt with almost everything. and you had protesters, student protesting student at -- debt. homeowners protesting the mortgage crisis. unemployed people from all different backgrounds from walks of life. brings together a much larger group of people, rather than some specific rights for a certain group. >> how would you reconcile citizens united super pac's, and dissent? ralph: i don't know if i would want to reconcile them. [laughter] it is pretty clear that the government now believes corporations are people. and that individuals don't have basic rights. i remember after the 14th amendment was passed, that was supposed to really establish individual rights, it began to be used as corporate rights. there is something, i don't know -- one of my students said they believe corporations are people when texas executes one. [laughter] i don't know if one can reconcile them. i think it's

the real national guard scandal from the vietnam era was on the democratic ticket.michael dukakis, his running mate was lloyd bentsen, and they alleged that bentsen had done something terrible, he had pulled strings to get his own son, lloyd bentsen iii, into the texas air national guard, so that lloyd bentsen's son could avoid serving in vietnam. that was the counterpunch from the bush/quayle campaign after the questions were raised about dan quayle avoiding service in vietnam. that counterpunch ended up going horribly wrong when it turned out one of the people who lloyd bentsen's son served alongside in the texas air national guard while busy not going to vietnam, one of the other people in that unit was vice president bush's son george w. same unit. he also somehow miraculously found himself with a coveted spot in the air national guard unit in texas along with the sons of other prominent families, rather than in a jungle in southeast asia. in that campaign, despite all that back and forth and lots more besides, ultimately poppy bush and dan quayle won that elect

hue's place in history long regarded as the heart of the imperial dynasty changed forever during the vietnamf some of the most bitter fighting of the war. during the lunar new year, the tet holiday, usually there was a sensation of hostilities, more than 100 cities all over south vietnam were attacked by the north vietnamese and vc. hue quickly fell. you have seen these images. it was footage like this that turned finally a great part of the american public against the war. the u.s. marines fought house to house to retake the city. a vicious 3 1/2-week-long battle. eventually, artillery and air support were called in. the city was saved. and, of course, largely destroyed in the saving. the civilian population caught in the cross fire were equally devastated. the north vietnamese to their enduring shame had while controlling the city rounded up anyone seen as a potential enemy and either disappeared them away to unknown prisons or killed them outright. most notoriously when they massacred almost 3,000 people, rolling them, many of them still alive in mass graves in and around hue. duk knows f

a small sacrifice to honor her father and everyone else claimed by the vietnam war. the man who flew this helicopter, wayne burk, wasn't just shot down once---but four times. he'll be in dubuque to speak at this year's veteran's day we've got you covered live here in dubuque, brad hanson...kwwl news. luedtke used oil paint for the job, and says it should last about 15 to 20 years. new at five... police are investigating a report of shots fired near a cedar rapids community college. kirkwood community college stuents got an alert from the school after an incident of gunfire near the college park apartments around 10-30 this morning; that alert says there was no threat to campus. police say nothing was hit and no one was hurt, but they're investigating. dozens of vehicles vandalized in just one night in cedar rapids... all happening on the northside...75 people reporting to the police...they're cars were hit. kwwl's hillary maglin went to that neighborhood today and talked to some victims. hillary? a lot of people woke up to find their car was hit by a vandal... and who

do you think about the effectiveness of these marches in washington, like during the vietnam war. the press is more effective regard of making an impact. you may see 10 seconds on the news there. as far as the effect of this i was wondering what you thought about that. >> it is simple thoughts that come back to mind. the first one i know of in history is the army they -- the army back in 1894. a group of out of work people from ohio on a march to get theon to try federal government to do something about creating jobs. for walkingrested on the lawn and that was the end of it, nothing happened. that was really the death for uber hoover's -- four herbert hoover's reelection campaign. the other thing that comes to you have toink realize that the media has become so much more powerful, even as it was then back in the 60's. more stations are owned by less companies. i'm not saying there is a conspiracy of silence but it is for thein their -- bottom line it is good for them to be little things. also if you remember, with the anti-vietnam war, the media when it is first covering the marche

searching high and low for the saola, an extremely rare bovid in vietnam. and representing the millennium - our teenager this time around comes from the caribbean. officially, prostitution is banned in kenya. but it's an open secret that it happens. it means that sex workers are often arrested, and are not legally protected themselves -- they don't get help from the police when their clients don't pay or even when they're the victims of violence. on top of this, fear of hiv-aids is widespread. aid organizations are trying to help and get women off the streets. but for many there seem to be few alternatives. reporter: monica wanjera lives in a slum on the outskirts of nairobi. she's 27 and has three children. their fathers do nothing for them. to buy food for her children, she works nights as a sex worker. monica: sometimes you may go there, the street, you find those guys they are too harrassing. they beat you up. they even take your money that you have get for the kids. you come home without anything. you find the kids, they are hungry, don't have anything

to the coast of the vietnam to the philippines. >> how long? >> a week. with 500 people on a barge. >> what did you have to eat? >> we didn't have much to eat but we had plenty to drink. it was raining very hard. >> in a way that was very lucky, you had water. >> i left early but a lot of vietnamese who left in the '80s and '90s had to deal with high pirate. the un estimate is that there were almost 800,000 vietnamese that died. >> 800,000 people died on the high sea because of bad >> oh, my goodness. >> did you travel by yourself or did your family come with you? >> i was fortunate to have my family with me and that was almost 40 years ago. >> and then from there you eventually came over to america and then got established here? >> yes. america still a land of opportunity for most people around the world. >> and what would you say are the biggest needs for refugees and immigrants today who still come over to this country? learning english, findling a job? >> finding a job. i think learning english is always a challenge, still a challenge for me after 40

hosted a parade to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the vietnam war. more than 1300 massachusetts residents lost their lives in southeast asia. the event served as a thank you to all branches of the military who served in the vietnam war. >>> the state's oldest veteran what he given the lifetime achievement award at the wonderland entertainment complex yesterday. he's 101 years old and fought in france and german in world war ii. there was also a wrestling and boxing match to raise money for the wounded warrior project. >>> today, an open house of sorts to outline a plan for using boston, massachusetts's real estate holdings. 300 are expected attend the meeting. the event will focus on leveraging state real estate through public and private partnerships. >>> amazon is going after people who reportedly sell fake reviews for products on its web site. the company says more than 1 ,000 people sold 5-star reviews through fiber.com. amazon policy bans fake product reviews. the company is suing the people for breach of contract and violating federal consumer l

the united states was in the vietnam war. frustrateds quite and disillusioned at what he perceived as an abdication of american leadership in the cold war. he worried about the decline of american. what that would mean for iran. he was quite hopeful that a man nike nexen could -- like nixo could resurrect american leadership. their meeting in tehran is quite extraordinary. advisers told him not to meet with them, they were worried he would be seen as taking sides in american domestic policy. what if you part humphrey or another democratic candidate won the election? will it be the consequences for the u.s.-iranian relationship? he insisted that he would meet nixon, his friend. they have a wide-ranging discussion for two hours, discussing everything from africa to vietnam. you can imagine these grand geopolitical thinkers, well-versed and well-informed, very good on substance, discussing issues. it is a very revealing moment on, ithe shah says to nix am tired of the harvard boys telling me how to run my country. the kennedyg ab

that is the way the counterculture eventually collapsed, with the vietnam war -- when the vietnam war comes to an end. by that time the long hair and jeans and all that stuff was co-opted by big business. i remember, i used to open up my jeans and make them bellbottoms with patches on them. by 1972 you could go into the store and buy them. and then everybody was wearing peace symbol t-shirts and earrings, even president johnson after he left office grew his hair long. [laughter] so suddenly you make your political statement and everybody is doing it, so it gets co-opted. but you are saying how that tea party has been co-opted by the republican party. it is true. [laughter] i certainly think that there was a time there that the occupy movement could have been co-opted by the democratic party, but that didn't really quite happen. it's sort of petered out. but the tea party movement -- whenever i hear people espousing tea party ideas, i wish they had known a little bit more about history. one of the things they value is the constitution. every single word of the constitution. >> and that

and did lady bird johnson ever have doubts about the vietnam war? >> thanks very much. d they continue their contact after the johnson white house began? >> yes. the tax bill, when that was signed, when lyndon johnson signed that, he went with lady bird johnson to the house of jackie kennedy in georgetown and gave her four pens, one for her, one for each of the kids and one for the library. i think during the white house years, the contact was rather formal. the johnsons certainly invited mrs. kennedy back but she never came back while they were there. they gave gifts to the children. i know the first christmas, for example, they gave john jr. a fire engine. they reached out to her. after the white house, in the 1980's, after she was widowed, lady bird johnson and jacqueline kennedy i guess we wouldn't say renewed a friendship, really established a friendship when they were both on martha's vineyard for periods in the summer. >> when you look at the documentary evidence, certainly she supported her husband publicly, but in her private materials, did you ever find doubts

back some memories, however, i'm just thrilled that people care enough to hold a parade for all the vietnam veterans. >> reporter: after the parade there was a cookout and concert for the vets. there were others booths filled with information to help local vets get all the support they need. >> great thing they're doing. >> and a great turnout despite how chilly it was. >> i know. tomorrow afternoon not a whole lot better. got to get through tomorrow morning first. i'm expecting boston downtown to bottom out right at about 31 between about six and 7:00 a.m. with several hours where temperatures will be at or below freezing even downtown. 48 tomorrow afternoon, mid-60s mid-week. >> thanks for joining us tonight. >>> seconds from now we'll kick off the fox 25 "sportswrap" and update you on what's happening in indianapolis. also my conversation with revolution forward charlie davies who was with me in studio earlier tonight. butch stearns shares some thoughts on the bruins also keying off on joe madden for his game one decision. we're going to debut our candidate for the high school game day g

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the same thing happened during the vietnam war. gays and lesbians served quite openly the people i interviewed told me. as soon as the vietnam war was over there was a big push to get gays and lesbians out of the service. i'm going to read one section in which i talk about the first out to gay person in the military and said yes, i am a homosexual and i want to remain in the military, and i think my record warrants remaining in the military. i called the section, the good soldier. as a boy growing up, in the 1950s on charleston air force base in south carolina, redheaded and beanpole they had a recurring reverie. the civil war soldier of the battles of gettysburg he did not question the racism around him, not even during the years when blacks began fighting for their civil rights. if black people showed up in the white housing area where he lived, the sergeant, father and rest of the family who grab the rocks and confederate flags and chase the intruders out. on saturday night he and other white teams from charleston air force base

and the protests against the vietnam war. right up through the early 1960's, even during peace time, about 20% of yale classes would typically go into the military. and then after the draft or rather after the -- when rossi was kicked off campus in 1971 and the draft ended, there was an immediate fall off when rotc was kicked off campus in 1971 and the number is now down below 1% in a typical year. i think there is -- there are a few things that are very significantly different between 1916, 1917, world war ii, and now. one of -- certainly there are the wider forces in the country that have made -- that have raised all sorts of questions about u.s. military involvement around the world, but there's also a distinctive change in young people's attitudes about what advantages they could gain in going into something so dangerous as the military. back then there affs real sense that this was -- back then there was a real sense that this was something that would be looked upon as the right thing to do. not everybody did it. not ever

this is a very famous memorial, the vietnam veterans memorial. it is a sad story and a happy story. this memorial was designed by maya lin. she was a 21-year-old college student. she wrote her idea on a proposal. the proposals were handed in blind. they did not know who did them, and they put them on a wall in a giant room, and she won this competition, and everyone who died in the vietnam war, their name is there. it is in order of their death. it is the most touching place in d.c. every night, people go into rubbings of the names. it is a very touching place. the veterans did not like it. they said it looked like a stain on the earth, a black marker, a giant tombstone, so they said we want a statue of soldiers, so they put this statue near it, looking at it, so the memorial went in in 1982 -- this statue went in in 1984, all paid by the u.s. government. they intentionally made they what consider someone white, hispanic, and african-american to portray the diversity of the military, and that is a beautiful sculpture. i cannot say anything about it. i love the sculpture, but the wome

the anti-vietnam war candidate who ran for president in 1968. and gene mccarthy did not win the office, not even the nomination that year despite my mom's best efforts. but his campaign at times was like a lightning bolt in u.s. politics, particularly for young people who were really opposed to the war at the time. there were times it felt like he had a shot, and that he was going to win. that was never more true than this one day in late july, 1968, when he filled up fenway park in boston. that day at fenway, gene mccarthy broke every candidate expectation for either party. 40,000 people came there to see him. that hot july day, 1968. >> we have been talking about freedom for nearly 200 years. every now and then the people will manifest it. and this is the year of manifestations. gene mccarthy, like i said he did not win. but 45,000 people turning out to see him on a summer night when he was still trying to get the nomination that year, that tells you something about the enthusiasm for him and for his campaign. in my family, personally, it was l