Vietnam War

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• SOURCE: Ellsberg Archive Project
  4/28/2021
  

  Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg: Free, Open Online Conference April 30-May 1

  A free online conference brings together more than two dozen distinguished historians, journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and former policymakers on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg himself will present the keynote. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/2021
  

  The Girl in the Kent State Photo

  by Patricia McCormick

  Mary Ann Vecchio's life was forever changed by being pictured in the famous photograph with Kent State shooting victim Jeffrey Miller; she became a lightning rod for a nation's anger at age 14. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/13/2021
  

  Biden Can Redeem His Mistake

  by George Packer

  Writer George Packer argues that withdrawing from Afghanistan repeats a mistake of the Vietnam era: abandoning groups who took the grave risk of allying with the United States. 

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• 4/18/2021
  

  The Real Patriots Invaded the Nation’s Capital Fifty Years Ago

  by Elise Lemire

  On this Patriots’ Day, fifty years after a battalion of Vietnam veterans brought their anguish and their outrage to the Capitol Building, we are reminded of the idealistic threads connecting the militiamen of Lexington and Concord and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/10/2021
  

  Marshall D. Sahlins, Groundbreaking Anthropologist, Dies at 90

  Marshal Sahlins was an innovator in the practice of campus "teach-ins," developed as a way for he and colleagues to protest the war in Vietnam without disengaging from contact with their students. 

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• SOURCE: Responsible Statecraft
  3/30/2021
  

  Will Afghanistan make Biden's Presidency Turn Out like Truman's or LBJ's?

  by Joe Cirincione

  "Joe Biden can be a great president. But not if he is so afraid of attacks from the right that he repeats LBJ’s blunder and stumbles into a war we cannot win and never need fight."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2/11/2021
  

  Beyond Donald Trump: When Poisons Curdle

  by Andrew Bacevich

  The writer regrets not absorbing the message of MLK's prophetic "Beyond Vietnam" sermon when it was delivered in 1967. But the years since have shown he wasn't alone, and the nation's failure to reflect on the interconnection of racism, materialism and militarism accounts for the dire state of affairs reflected in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/3/2021
  

  Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 80

  Mr. Davis was most famous as an organizer of the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago which led to his trial for conspiracy and inciting riot. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/16/2021
  

  Alan Canfora, Who Carried Wounds From Kent State, Dies at 71

  After being wounded by National Guard fire at Kent State, Canfora worked tirelessly to ensure that the violence would not be erased from the university's or the nation's history.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/7/2021
  

  Now It Can Be Told: How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers

  Award-winning journalist Neil Sheehan told an interviewer the story of how he got the Pentagon Papers, on the condition that the story could not be published while he was alive. His passing this week opens up new knowledge in the history of press freedom and the Vietnam war.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/7/2021
  

  Neil Sheehan, Reporter Who Obtained the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 84

  Neil Sheehan's earned skepticism of the rightness of the American mission in Vietnam made him the reporter to whom Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his volume "A Bright Shining Lie" about the war. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  12/22/2020
  

  Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq: The Lessons of Two Failed Wars

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Although the prospects for quickly turning around the ship seem dim, this has been an election year ending in zero, which has often signaled a turning point. The question is, in which direction. 

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• 12/13/2020
  

  A Narrow Definition of "Winner" Shouldn't Hide McGovern's Moral Clarity

  by Mike McQuillan

  A former senate aide and campaign volunteer saw George McGovern's moral clarity and decency up close, and says the nation is worse off for branding him a loser after the 1972 election. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  12/5/2020
  

  Performance Anxiety: How Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines Shaped Soldiers’ (Mis)Understandings of the Vietnam War (Review)

  by Nicholas Utzig

  A consideration of Gregory Daddis's book "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines."

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  11/11/2020
  

  New Memoir Tells Tale Of 1967 Beer Run To Vietnam

  John "Chick" Donohue was in a bar in Inwood in upper Manhattan in 1967 when the bartender suggested the neighborhood's contingent of troops in Vietnam would appreciate a beer. He made the delivery. His new book explains how. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/3/2020
  

  Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson

  by Charlotte Rosen

  Aaron Sorkin's Chicago 7 film strips away the radical, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist politics of the 1960s New Left to make the defendants heroic defenders of liberal democratic politics. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/29/2020
  

  The History of Hmong Americans Explains why they Might Decide the Election

  by Melissa Borja

  Hmong refugees were resettled in the United States after participating as US allies in military operations in Laos. American policy of dispersing refugees in small groups away from coastal areas created Hmong communities in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. 

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  10/19/2020
  

  After Chicago 7 Trial, Mrs. Jean Fritz Helped Change the Course of History

  A look back at the Chicago 7 conspiracy trial through the eyes of one of the jurors reveals an America that was less completely polarized than one might think. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/13/2020
  

  Edward C. Meyer, General who Revamped Post-Vietnam ‘Hollow Army,’ Dies at 91

  by 10/13/2020

  During a congressional hearing in 1980, Gen. Meyer used the memorable phrase “a hollow Army” to describe how the military branch had been beset by staffing problems, outdated equipment and general malaise after the 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.