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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach … ...
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach ...
Most American presidents have learned the wrong lessons from the American War in Vietnam, as it is called there. The most recent presidential misstep is Donald Trump’s attempt to prevent U.S ...
Turning Point: The Vietnam War is a five-part docuseries, directed by Brian Knappenberger, that examines how the United States became involved in the civil war in Vietnam, starting in the early ...
H.W. Brands, a historian at the University of Texas, says, “To my students, the Vietnam war might as well be the civil war.” But his students still live in a culture dramatically changed by ...
The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March on the Pentagon, the 1968 Tet Offensive, May Day in 1971, and ...
The war’s toll continued to rise, with 100,000 more casualties in Vietnam in the 50 years since the conflict technically came to a close and many more in the neighboring nations of Southeast Asia.
In other words, there was indeed a “civil war” in Vietnam, but it was not one that pitted northerners against southerners, as, for the most part, our American Civil War did.
Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, DC, where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan's “Masters ...
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach ...