

Video Clip: President Nixon on the End of the Vietnam War (8:55) involvement in the Vietnam War, to newspapers across the country. History Professor Beth Bailey and Military History Professor Richard Faulkner discuss the evolution of the Selective Service Act after World War II, including disillusionment of the implied fairness and shared burden of conscripted service for those drafted in the Vietnam War.ĭaniel Ellsberg discussed his leak of the "Pentagon Papers", a secret government study of U.S. Video Clip: Vietnam War and the Draft (4:49) Novick evaluated Nixon's April 1967 speech about Vietnam and his ability to modulate their message to the American people. Video Clip: President Nixon and the Vietnam War (2:44)ĭocumentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick discussed their latest film for PBS called "The Vietnam War". Professor Margaret O'Mara talked about the events that led to the escalation of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War and the causes of anti-war movement within the U.S. Video Clip: Vietnam War Escalation and the Anti-War Movement (7:14) This 1965 CBS News special report anchored by Morley Safer looks at a battle in Vietnam that began on October 19, 1965, and lasted for five weeks. Video Clip: The Battle of Ia Drang Valley (14:44)

Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin, located off the coast of northern Vietnam and southern China. response to an incident between the North Vietnamese Navy and the U.S. This Universal Newsreel segment highlighted the U.S. Video Clip: Gulf of Tonkin Incident (5:54) Temple University History Professor David Farberon discussed the lead up to the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. Video Clip: Vietnam War - American Troops Enter the War (3:37)
