WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 3, 2015) -- In early 1965, about 50,000 U.S. troops, mostly advisors, were in South Vietnam. By the end of 1966, that number had grown to 385,000 with the majority ...
In March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam. By year’s end, there were 200,000 of them. When LIFE dispatched Associate Editor Michael Mok and Photographer Paul Schutzer to spend six ...
It’s easy to forget now, 40 years after the Fall of Saigon and freshly removed from the prospect of Iraq and Afghanistan lapsing into “another Vietnam,” that there was a time when many believed that ...
A 1973 file photo of Eugene Genovese, a former Rutgers professor who made national headlines in 1965 when he spoke at a Vietnam War "teach in" on campus. (Charles Del Vecchio | The Washington Post via ...
During an April '65 teach-in on the Vietnam War, Genovese told students: "Those of you who know me know that I am a Marxist and a Socialist. Therefore, unlike most of my distinguished colleagues here ...
The collection includes a field book entitled the master (rodent) log for laboratory of PMU (Preventive Medicine Unit of the U.S. Military). It covers specimens collected across Vietnam, 1965-1966. At ...
The capacity for independent judgment among ordinary Americans is probably best shown by the swift development of antiwar feeling among American GIs-volunteers and draftees who came mostly from ...
Ken Burns' epic PBS documentary "Country Music" devotes a whole lot of time to the Vietnam War era and how the growing divisions in the United States were reflected in the music. Country music's fans ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Fifty years since the historic “Teach-In Against the Vietnam War,” a dozen retired University ...
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Richard Berliner doesn’t call himself a veteran, but he spent years in Saigon during the Vietnam War helping families and children caught in the crossfire. In 1966, Berliner ...
User-Created Clip April 8, 2018 2015-07-26T16:01:16-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/084/20150726160133003_hd.jpgPresident Johnson reading a letter he received ...