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My Lai massacre, March 1968 news photo

My Lai massacre, March 1968 news photo. Eddie Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong officer. US Soldier’s testimony, Dellums Committee Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam.

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My Lai massacre, March 1968 news photo

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  1. My Lai massacre, March 1968 news photo

  2. Eddie Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong officer.

  3. US Soldier’s testimony, Dellums Committee Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam BARNES: I think that most of the high cmnd knew about the things that were happening and the " reasons that they didn't say too much about it or nothing was processed through about it was that the main thing was that the object was to go into Vnam, and the object was to most of the high cmnd, it was to kill. That was the thing. To come in and - I don't mean destroy in the sense of the word which is what they did really, but if a couple of civilians got in the way, "Thats not a big matter. Thats the price of war." Thats how they considered it. If they heard of mass murders usually it was an overpass, and it didn't have too much effect, that type of thing. They didn't care about it. They didn't have no feelings for the people at all.

  4. 1968 and After • Important events: 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago 1969 SDS fragments; the Weathermen formed as a splinter group 1970 Kent State Massacre 1973 The Paris Peace Accords - ended US military involvement 1974 Nixon resigns

  5. AntiWar Protests in San Fransco - from pickets to violence

  6. Kent State, May 4, 1970 - National Guard

  7. John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the dead or dying body of Jeffrey Miller, shot in the mouth by an unknown Ohio National Guardsman. 70 - Student Killed

  8. San Jose State protest after the Kent State incident

  9. Jane Fonda in North Vietnam in 1972

  10. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho signing the Paris Peace Accords in 1973

  11. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho signing the Paris Peace Accords in 1973

  12. Chicago Democratic Convention, 1968

  13. Chicago American on the Democratic Convention, 1968

  14. César Chavez leads a march of striking Chicano farm workers, 1968

  15. “Indians of All Tribes” occupy Alcatraz Island, 1969

  16. Wounded Knee protest, 1973

  17. Gay Liberation Day demonstration in 1970, one year after Stonewall riot

  18. The Weather Underground

  19. Women in Labor Force, 1940-1987 1940 1950 1960 1970 1987 Millions 13.8 17.8 22.5 31.2 53.0 Percentage Employed Single 48 46 43 51 65 Married 17 23 32 40 56 With children 6 NA 12 19 30 57 ” 6-17 NA 28 39 49 71

  20. The Feminist Movement - Gains and Losses • Influenced by the Civil Rights movement, Counterculture’s sexual liberation, New Left • 1963 Equal Pay Act - prohibits wage discrimination based on sex in jobs requiring skill, effort, and ability • 1964 Civil Rights Act - makes discrimination on grounds of race, creed, country of origin illegal; Title VII, barring discrimination on basis of “sex,” originally added as a joke, to stop the bill, but adopted under pressure from women’s movement • 1966 National Organization of Women (Betty Friedan founded) • 1972 Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress, but fails ratification • 1973 Roe v. Wade - prevents thousands of women from dying each year during illegal abortions • Mixed results: number of women in college up 45%, but national system of day care fails • Public opinion changes, working-class women embrace transformations

  21. Batgirl Equal Pay Act commercial 1963

  22. Miss America Beauty Pageant Protest, Atlantic City, NJ, September 1968

  23. Roe v Wade

  24. Watergate Chronology 1964 Free Speech movement at Berkeley Freedom Summer Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1965 Malcolm X assasinated 1966 National Organization for Women organized Black Panther Party Founded 1968 Tet offensive Martin Luther King, Jr. assasinated Democratic National Convention in Chicago Richard Nixon elected president Miss America Beauty Pageant protest 1969 Stonewall riot “Indians of All Nations” occupy Alcatraz island 1970 The Ohio National Guard kills four students at Kent State 1972 Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment (not ratified by states) Break-in at the National Democratic Convention 1973 Paris peace agreement ends war in Vietnam for America 1974 President Nixon resigns

  25. National security blanket

  26. Nixon’s “I’m not a crook speech”

  27. Washington Post on Nixon’s “Not a crook” speech Washington Post, Sunday, November 18, 1973; Page A01 Orlando, Fla, Nov. 17 -- Declaring that "I am not a crook," President Nixon vigorously defended his record in the Watergate case tonight and said he had never profited from his public service. "I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice," Mr. Nixon said. "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got."

  28. Not a crook

  29. “Nixon Quits,” London Herald, 1974

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