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During the decade before full-scale U.S. involvement, war reporting in Vietnam was fraught with challenges. This was a formative period for journalism in the Vietnam War, when only a small cadre of reporters were on the ground and the truth often proved elusive. In this episode of Explaining History, we explore how American correspondents operated under censorship (both formal and informal), how official manipulation shaped their stories, and how some British and international reporters managed to sidestep these constraints to uncover hidden truths. Drawing on Philip Knightley’s classic study The First Casualty, we will see that the first casualty of…
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British song writers in the 1960s rarely ventured into the realm of politics and protest, unlike their American counterparts. The Who’s My Generation had little to say about politics and was simply a statement about the aspirations and interests of the baby boomers. John Lennon had gravitated towards politics from 1968’s Revolution onwards and in 1969, following his marriage to Yoko Ono, staged a ‘Bed-In’ in Amsterdam and then Montreal. It was during the latter that he recorded Give Peace A Chance, with LSD proponent Timothy Leary, a local group of Hare Krishnas and at least one Rabbi. John Lennon’s…
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Hi guys, here’s a short video on the decision by Kennedy and the CIA to overthrow President Diem of South Vietnam in 1963. Kennedy, the CIA and Vietnam Watch this video on YouTube.