Vietnam War

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Twenty-One Days Later: Ventura County's Participation in the Chicano Moratorium of 1970

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Police responded brutally to the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protest march in East Los Angeles, including killing journalist Ruben Salazar. This news spread to smaller Chicano communities in the state and beyond and sparked a politicial movement for justice that echoes today.

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• SOURCE: Herald-Mail Media (From Los Angeles Times)
  8/31/2020
  

  50 Years Later, Mexican American Vietnam War Vets Recall Protests That Conflict Inspired

  At the 50th anniversary of the 2nd Chicano Moratorium protest against the Vietnam War, Mexican American veterans and historians reflect on how the war and the protests affected Mexican Americans. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/19/2020
  

  The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea

  In 1973, the House Armed Services Committe, led by a segregationist, believed that "reforms were the problem" in the wake of racial strife, notes Navy historian John Sherwood.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  Nixon Did Call the Military on Protesters. He Just Covered It Up.

  by Lawrence Roberts

  The antiwar movement had already helped turn public opinion against Mr. Nixon’s conduct of the war. He was determined to deny activists a victory that could cause further political damage.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/4/2020
  

  Psychiatry and Homosexuality Draft Exemptions During the Vietnam War

  by Natalie Shibley

  Although many gay rights organizations argued that the exclusion of homosexuals from the armed forces was unconstitutional and discriminatory, several of the same groups also offered advice to gay men who wanted to be disqualified from military service.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/21/2020
  

  John Lewis’ Fight for Equality Was Never Limited to Just the United States

  by Keisha N. Blain

  By linking national concerns to global ones, John Lewis compelled others to see that the problems of racism and white supremacy were not contained within U.S. borders.

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• 7/19/2020
  

  Barry Zorthian's War: The Pentagon and the Press in Vietnam

  by Ron Steinman

  A 1970 speech by Barry Zorthian, the Pentagon's chief public information officer in Vietnam, shows a thoughtful approach to balancing the rights of journalists with the need of the military to control information. That approach is missing in the era of "fake news" and open hostility by the administration for the press.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican (Review)

  Clyde Haberman reviews David Paul Kuhn's "The Hardhat Riot" which proves heated social divisions--stoked and exploited by politicians--are nothing new. 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?

  by Jerry Lembcke

  A historian of public perceptions of the Vietnam War (who served as a military chaplain there) warns that Spike Lee's latest film traffics in stereotypes of both American veterans and the Vietnamese people while reinforcing right-wing narratives about the war.

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  5/24/2020
  

  Remembering Ray Eurquhart, a Lifelong Activist Radicalized in the Military

  Ray Eurquhart developed as an activist by organizing his fellow Air Force personnel during his Vietnam-era service, bringing the demands of civil rights movements into the military.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/13/2020
  

  Flight Status

  by Sarah Rose

  During the Vietnam War, the women who served on special Pan Am flights flew into a war zone to transport soldiers. Why has their role been forgotten?

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• SOURCE: UConn Today
  5/5/2020
  

  UConn Historian: South Vietnam Archives Provide New Insights into War

  Historian Nu-Ahn Tran argues that internal documents show that the government of the Republic of Vietnam worked toward its own goals and agenda rather than simply following direction from Washington to fight Communists.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/4/2020
  

  Four Students Were Killed in Ohio. America Was Never the Same.

  by Richard M. Perloff

  Fifty years after May 4, public expression of unpopular views remains endemic to democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  5/4/2020
  

  On the 50th Anniversary, America’s Still not Fully Recovered from the Wounds of Kent State

  by Will Bunch

  Historian Thomas Grace argued that, contrary to the perception of student protesters as Ivy League elites, movements at Kent State built on family histories of labor unionism and the perception that working class kids' path to a better life was being short-circuited by the war in Vietnam.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  5/1/2020
  

  How 13 Seconds Changed Kent State University Forever

  As the 50th anniversary of the Kent State killings passed this week, the University had been advancing along a difficult path to acknowledge the events and introduce new students to the campus's tragic history.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/3/2020
  

  As with Vietnam in the 1960s, COVID-19 is Exposing Racial Fault Lines in the U.S.

  by Emily L. Quint Freeman

  The author risked prison to try to break the connection between the U.S. war in Vietnam and domestic racism. 

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  5/4/2020
  

  50 Years Ago, ‘The Dude’ Didn’t Abide. He Helped Lead Thousands in Protest at UW After Students Shot at Kent State.

  Before inspiring "The Dude," Jeff Dowd was a Seattle activist who led students to block Interstate 5 in Seattle to protest the war in Vietnam and the killing of students by the National Guard at Kent State. 

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• 5/3/2020
  

  50 Years After Kent State: Four Deaths Shocked a Nation and Thrust Me into Student Activism

  by James Thornton Harris

  An HNN Contributing Editor reflects on how the Kent State killings pushed him to student activism and the legacy of protest fifty years later. 

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• The Truth about the Five O’ Clock Follies

  by Ron Steinman

  Ron Steinman covered the notorious "Five O'Clock Follies" press conferences held by American military leadership in Saigon, and warns against comparing them to the Trump administration's daily Coronavirus briefings. 

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• SOURCE: Portside
  4/27/2020
  

  Fifty Years Ago This Spring: Millions of Students Struck To End a War in Vietnam

  by Steve Early

  1970 Student Strike participant Steve Early reflects on the massive college student walkouts and their relevance to today's political climate.