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The Media and the Vietnam War

The Media and the Vietnam War. A Televised War. Compare to radio WWII: August 1945 Footage by soldiers News Coverage of the War (1969). Secrets. U.S. involvement since 1950s Bombings Tactics: shoot up villages, napalm, agent orange Turning Points Numbers of casualties

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The Media and the Vietnam War

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  1. The Media and the Vietnam War

  2. A Televised War • Compare to radio WWII: August 1945 • Footage by soldiers • News Coverage of the War (1969)

  3. Secrets • U.S. involvement since 1950s • Bombings • Tactics: shoot up villages, napalm, agent orange • Turning Points • Numbers of casualties • Growing domestic unrest: Draft, other reasons for distrust • Investigations

  4. Napalm, The Environment and Morality

  5. Questions • Seymour Hersh-My Lai Massacre (worked for anti-war paper) • Walter Cronkite- CBS Anchor traveled to Vietnam (1968, after Tet) • Peter Arnett- First traveled in 1962 • 1971-The Pentagon Papers

  6. Of Walter Cronkite • It was Cronkite, veteran of World War II, a man of unimpeachable patriotism. When he stated the obvious — that the Viet Cong had no intention of giving up, and we had no intention of remaining in Vietnam for another generation — the common sense of it stuck with the public.

  7. A Picture Tells a Thousand Words But without words they are up to interpretation.

  8. Media Helps Provoke Anti war but… • How did the government (Johnson and Nixon’s administrations) encourage the anti-war sentiment? • How was the context of the 1960s detrimental to the war effort almost from the start?

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