Transcript Vietnam War History Slides

Media Construction
of Peace
PowerPoint Slide Show, Unit 6,
Lesson 1
Vietnam War
An elderly Buddhist monk, the Rev. Quang Duc, is engulfed in flames as
he burns himself to death in Saigon, Vietnam to protest against
persecution.
Why young Americans are DESERTERS,
EXILES, FUGITIVES, CONCIENTIOUS
OBJECTORS
“Why should I drop bombs and bullets on
brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro
people in Louisville are treated like dogs?”
“Ohio National Guardsmen
advancing over the campus of
Kent State University yesterday
behind a (…) of tear gas”