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How Television and Photographs Changed American Public Opinion After the Tet OFFENSIVE

How Television and Photographs Changed American Public Opinion After the Tet OFFENSIVE. Saresa Rach. U.S. Huey Helicopter Taking Off. Photographer Tim Page, 1965. Where Did Americans Get Their News?. In 1963, major news networks, NBC and CBS doubled their evening news programs .

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How Television and Photographs Changed American Public Opinion After the Tet OFFENSIVE

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  1. How Television and Photographs Changed American Public Opinion After the TetOFFENSIVE Saresa Rach

  2. U.S. Huey Helicopter Taking Off Photographer Tim Page, 1965

  3. Where Did Americans Get Their News? • In 1963, major news networks, NBC and CBS doubled their evening news programs. • In 1967, news network ABC doubled their evening news program. • In 1968, 38% of Americans had a television set. • In 1972, 66% of Americans stated television as their primary source of news.

  4. Wounded U.S. Paratrooper May 19, 1969

  5. Captured Vietcong Prisoner Feb. 1, 1968

  6. General Loan Executing the Vietcong Prisoner Photographer Eddie Adams, Feb. 1, 1968

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