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Vietnam Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie (C) being led past stricken comrade after fierce firefight for control of Hill 484 during the Vietnam war Location: Vietnam Date taken: 1966 Photographer: Larry Burrows 1926-1971 Life Images
Fall of Saigon [ now Ho Chi Minh City ] U.S. evacuation of Saigon 1975
South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh delivers an unconditional surrender to the Communists in the early hours of April 30. North Vietnamese colonel Bui Tin accepts the surrender and assures Minh, "...only the Americans have been beaten. If you are patriots, consider this a moment of joy." As the few remaining Americans evacuate Saigon, the last two U.S. servicemen to die in Vietnam are killed when their helicopter crashes. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/tl3.html
Image: A4241-30A and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to
discuss the American evacuation of Saigon. Fall of Saigon Meetings, March-April 1975
Image: A3779-08 meets with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Army Chief of Staff General Frederick Weyand, and Graham Martin, Ambassador to Vietnam.
(L) Fall of Saigon Meetings, March-April 1975
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Vietnam's President Thieu resigns 21 April 1975
The President of South Vietnam is forced to resign accusing the United States of betrayal. In a TV and radio address, outgoing President Nguyen Van Thieu said his forces had failed to stop the advance of the Vietcong because of lack of funds promised to him by the Americans.
In a scathing attack on the US, he suggested US Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger had tricked him into signing the Paris peace agreement two years ago, promising military aid which then failed to materialise. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/newsid_2935000/2935347.stm
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Nixon announces Vietnam peace deal 23 January 1973
The US president, Richard Nixon, appears on national television to announce "peace with honour" in Vietnam. Statements issued simultaneously in Washington and Hanoi confirmed the peace deal was signed in Paris at 1230 local time, bringing to an end America's longest war. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/23/newsid_2506000/2506549.stm
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Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam 15 January 1973
President Nixon orders a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam following peace talks in
Paris.
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(1 of 3) Bombs with a mixture of napalm and white phosphorus jelly dropped by Vietnamese AF Skyraider bombers explode amidst homes and in front of the Cao Dai temple in the outskirts of Trang Bang, June 8, 1972. In the foreground are Vietnamese soldiers and news and cameramen from various international news organizations who watch the scene. The towers of the Trang Bang Cao Dai temple are visible in the center of the explosions.
(2 of 3) South Vietnamese forces follow after terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc (center left), as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places, June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The children from left to right are: Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim's cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. Behind them are soldiers of the Vietnam Army 25th Division.
(3 of 3) Television crews and South Vietnamese troops surround 9 year old Kim Phuc on Route 1 near Trang Bang after she was burned by a misdirected aerial napalm attack, June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane targeting suspected Viet Cong positions dropped its flaming napalm on the civilian village. AP Photo/Nick Ut Boston Globe > Big Picture > Vietnam, 35 years
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William C. Westmoreland 1914-2005
Gen. William C. Westmoreland commanded United States forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/international/asia/19westmoreland.html
Westmoreland commanded U.S. troops in South Vietnam as the U.S. military presence grew from about 20,000 advisers in early 1964 to 500,000 troops in 1968.
Facing a confounding enemy, a fearful public turning rapidly hostile and an undependable ally in the South Vietnamese government, Westmoreland came to personify the military establishment against which a generation rebelled. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/18/AR2005071801713.html
President Johnson With William C. Westmoreland Date taken: 1968 Photographer: Stan Wayman Life Images
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Tet offensive Jan. 31, 1968 - Feb. 25, 1968
At 3 o'clock in the morning of Jan. 31, 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces launched a wave of simultaneous attacks on South Vietnamese and American forces in major cities, towns and military bases throughout South Vietnam.
The fighting, the heaviest and most sustained of the Vietnam War, coincided with the Lunar New Year, or Tet, and it has been called the Tet offensive ever since.
It was a military turning point in the war, but it was far more than that in its painful demonstration of the limits of American power in Asia and in the psychological impact it was to have on Americans at home. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/31/world/tet-offensive-turning-point-in-vietnam-war.html
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Vietnam Marines recovering dead comrade while under fire during N. Vietnamese/US mil. conflict over DMZ, w. photog. Catherine LeRoy w. cameras in rear: S. Vietnam. Location: Vietnam Date taken: 1966 Photographer: Larry Burrows Life Images
American Marines aid a wounded comrade during intense battle for Hill 484 as part of Operation Prairie being conducted near the DMZ during the Vietnam War. Location: Vietnam Date taken: October 1966 Photographer: Larry Burrows Life Images
Route Nine Defensive-Vietnam Photographer: Larry Burrows No date Life Images
Mass Graves In Hue, Vietnam Grieving widow crying over plastic bag containing remains of husband recently found in mass grave - killed in Feb. 1968 Vietnam war Tet offensive. Location: Hue, Vietnam Date taken: April 1969 Photographer: Larry Burrows Life Images
Terrified Vietnamese mother running w. her injured child during a fight between US and Viet Cong forces near Cape Batangan. Location: Cape Batangan, Vietnam Date taken: November 1965 Photographer: Paul Schutzer Life Images
South Vietnamese soldier crouched next to badly bleeding woman while awaiting medical aid during an attack by the Viet Cong. Location: Saigon, Vietnam Date taken: 1968 Photographer: Larry Burrows Life Images
(1 of 3) South Vietnamese forces escort suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also known as Bay Lop) on a Saigon street Feb. 1, 1968, early in the Tet Offensive. (2 of 3) South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street, on Feb. 1, 1968. (3 of 3) South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan holsters his gun after executing suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem whose body lies on a Saigon street Feb. 1, 1968, early in the Tet Offensive. AP Photos/Eddie Adams Boston Globe > Big Picture > Vietnam, 35 years
later 7 May 2010
A Vietnamese litter bearer wears a face mask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation, about 45 miles northeast of Saigon, Nov. 27, 1965. More than 100 bodies were recovered after a human wave assault by guerrillas. AP Photo/Horst Faas Boston Globe > Big Picture > Vietnam, 35 years
later 7 May 2010
Vietnam.... A Marine from 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, moves a Viet Cong suspect to the rear during a search and clear operation held by the battalion 15 miles west of Da Nang Air Base 08/03/1965 Primary source > NARA
Route Nine Defensive-Vietnam Photographer: Larry Burrows No date Life Images
Route Nine Defensive-Vietnam Photographer: Larry Burrows No date Life Images
Route Nine Defensive-Vietnam Photographer: Larry Burrows Life Images
Paul Szep, [Vietnam
Specters], Published in The Boston Globe, 1967
Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon
After a while, senseless brutality became little more than a mere spectator sport. We found this young woman--in her early 20s at most-- lying on the road as we swept it for mines.
It was the first thing in the morning, barely after sunup, She had been shot at point blank range sometime during the night.
It was alleged that she was a Viet Cong sympathizer and had been stripped
Someone else had covered her over in
plastic but as we arrived,
It was hard to believe someone as young and innocent looking as she could be the
enemy
Steven Curtis. The Vietnam I remember > The enemy.
Saigon Viet Cong dead after an attack on the perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Source: Vietnam Center and Archive 1 Feb. 1968 Description: ASVG-S-1031-65/AGA68 RVN Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A)
Wikipedia
" L'intervention américaine au Vietnam a suivi la guerre d'Indochine française pour empêcher l'emprise communiste sur la péninsule. Après Dien Bien Phu (1953) et surtout à partir de 1963, les Américains menèrent une guerre de plus en plus impopulaire jusqu'à leur retrait en 1973. La chute de Saigon (1975) marqua leur départ définitif. "
" 2,5 millions de morts en une dizaine d'années au Vietnam, dont 58 000 Américains jusqu'au retrait du contingent en 1973. "
Source : A Savoir, Libération, 12.2.2004
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Vietnam War Secretary of State Henry Alfred Kissinger
Kissinger in 1976.
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Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger at Harvard. Location: Cambridge, MA, US Date taken: July 03, 1969 Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt Life Images
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George William Webber 1920-2010
Over the years, Mr. Webber protested the Vietnam War and other American policies and was arrested several times. In 1974, these activities provoked the United States ambassador to Vietnam, Graham A. Martin, to write a four-page letter to Mr. Webber after Mr. Webber led a group of antiwar activists to Vietnam. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/us/13webber.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/us/13webber.html
Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon Papers 1971-1973
Daniel Ellsberg's leaks from inside the Pentagon helped to end the Vietnam war. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/feb/06/londonreviewofbooks1
On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a documentary history tracing the ultimately doomed involvement of the United States in a grinding war in the jungles and rice paddies of Southeast Asia.
They demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance.
The Government sought and won a court order restraining further publication after three articles had appeared. Other newspapers then began publishing. They, too, were restrained, until finally, on June 30, 1971, the United States Supreme Court ruled,
by a vote of 9 to 0, that publication could
resume. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/pentagon_papers/index.html
Time Covers - The 70S Time cover: 07-05-1971 of Daniel Ellsberg. Date taken: July 05, 1971
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Future anti war activist Daniel Ellsberg as a young Marine Lieutenant. Location: Quantico, VA, US Date taken: July 15, 1954
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Vietnam War The Harrisburg Seven, anti-war activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger 1971
March On Harrisburg Anti-war demonstrators marching in support of the Harrisburg 6, anti-war activists accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Location: Harrisburg, PA, US Date taken: 1971 Photographer: Bill Ray
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Dwight Alan Armstrong (1951-2010) College building bombing Aug. 24, 1970
one of four young men who in 1970 bombed a building on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, killing one person and injuring several others, during a time of intense agitation against the Vietnam War. The center, which operated under a contract with the United States Army, had been the target of many nonviolent protests since it opened in the 1950s. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/us/27armstrong.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/us/27armstrong.html
Vietnam War Carl Preston Oglesby 1935-2011
Carl Oglesby led Students for a Democratic Society as it publicly opposed the Vietnam War but who was later expelled by a radical faction that became the Weather Underground http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/carl-oglesby-antiwar-leader-in-1960s-dies-at-76.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/carl-oglesby-antiwar-leader-in-1960s-dies-at-76.html
Vietnam War Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara 1916-2009
United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
on the
telephone. added 7 July 2009
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The Chicago Seven Riot Conspiracy Trial Chicago, Illinois 1969
The Chicago Seven (also Conspiracy Seven, originally Eight) were seven defendants - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner - charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven
Yippie & Black Panther confronting each other at the riot conspiracy trial of the Chicago Eight. Location: Chicago, IL, US Date taken: September 1969 Photographer: Lee Balterman
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Riot Conspiracy Trial - Chicago, Illinois Date taken: 1969 Photographer: Lee Balterman
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Vietnam War Mi Lai carnage / massacre March 16, 1968
More than 500 civilians die in My Lai massacre.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1026782.stm
Description: Unidentified Vietnamese man and child killed by US soldiers Source: Report of Army review into My Lai incident, book 6, 14 March 1970 http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/RDAR-Vol-IIIBook6.pdf March 16, 1968 Author: Ronald L. Haeberle
Wikipedia
My Lai Massacre
March 16 1968 Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner The Guardian Weekend p. 110 1.4.2006
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Vietnam War Tiger Force’s killing of women and children June and July, 1967
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Vietnam Operation Junction City February - March - April 1967
In one of the largest air-mobile assaults ever, 240 helicopters sweep over Tay Ninh province, beginning Operation Junction City. The goal of Junction City is to destroy Vietcong bases and the Vietcong military headquarters for South Vietnam, all of which are located in War Zone C, north of Saigon. Some 30,000 U.S. troops take part in the mission, joined by 5,000 men of the South Vietnamese Army. After 72 days, Junction City ends. American forces succeed in capturing large quantities of stores, equipment and weapons, but there are no large, decisive battles. http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index2.html
American soldiers of 2nd Batt, 503rd Airborne Inf., 173rd Airborne Div. gear up for a long range patrol during Operation Junction City. Location: Vietnam Date taken: March 1967 Photographer: Co Rentmeester Life Images
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Inside a Hanoi Prison 1966
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USA / Vietnam Vietnam war Timeline 1962-1975
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NARA Documents > War in Vietnam > Photographs
"Da Nang, Vietnam... A young Marine private waits on the beach during the Marine landing" By an unknown photographer, August 3, 1965 1998 print. Records of the U. S. Marine Corps.
(127-W-A-185146) Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
Eight Portfolios from Part I
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/
Teaching With Documents The War in Vietnam - A Story in Photographs
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam-photos/
Anti Vietnam war demonstrations
Anti-war demonstrators sitting amongst pink flowers. Location: Washington, DC, US Date taken: 1970 Photographer: John Olson
Life Images
Time Covers - The 70S TIME cover: 01-23-1971 drawing of antiwar protestor priests Philip and Daniel Berrigan. Date taken: January 25, 1971 Photographer: Jim Sharpe
Life Images
Spring Mobilization Vietnam protestors carrying anti-war signs during march from dowtown Market Street to Golden Gate Park's Kezar Stadium for rally called "Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam". Location: San Francisco, CA, US Date taken: April 1967 Photographer: Ralph Crane
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