Transcript The War in Vietnam

The War Comes Home: The
Political Crises of the 1960s
The New Left: The Port Huron
Statement, 1962
• “the goal of man and society
should be human
independence”
• “in a time of supposed
prosperity, moral complacency
and political manipulation, a
new left cannot rely on aching
stomachs to be the engine of
social reform”
Berkeley Free Speech Movement,
1964-65
TV and Vietnam
Norman Morrison
The Summer of Love 1967
Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967
"A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that
time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. We
have destroyed their two most cherished
institutions: the family and the village. We have
destroyed their land and their crops. We have
cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only
noncommunist revolutionary political force, the
unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the
enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have
corrupted their women and children and killed their
men.
Tet offensive, January 1968
The “Fall” of Siagon, 30 April, 1975
Chicago: The Democratic Convention, 1968
The Weathermen, the
Yippies, the RYM,
and the “Days of
Rage”, Chicago, 1969
Trang Bang, Vietnam, 8 June 1972
My Lai Massacre, March 1968
Kent State University, May 4, 1970