THE SIXTIES

ANTI WAR

We should declare war on North Vietnam. . . .
We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas....Ronald Reagan, 1965

Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam
by Jack Todd ****
This memoir of a Vietnam era deserter tells of the political and personal factors in his decision to flee to Canada in the 1960s, the difficult life he and otherAmericans endured, his efforts to find a home after the hostilities ended--complicated by the fact that he had renounced his American citizenship--and of the life he made as a successful Canadian journalist.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. --Benjamin Spock, 1988

Vietnam Reflections

"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate."-George McGovern

Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s ****
Amy Swerdlow, Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
This is a narrative history of the 1960s peace organization. Beginning in 1961, Women Strike for Peace (WSP) "organized against nuclear testing andwar. . . . Amy Swerdlow, herself a leader of Women Strike for Peace, tells the story of these 'ordinary housewives,' aged roughly from their mid-thirties to late forties, white and mainly college-educated. . . . In November 1961, approximately 50,000 women participated in a nationwide strike for peace, which kicked off their political activity for the rest of the decade. . . . {The women's} activism against nuclear testing and the war in Vietnam . . . was articulated in the language of mothers who want to protect their children." (Women'sRev Books)

"Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war." --Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1979

The Forgotten Hero of My Lai by Trent Angers ****
By March of 1968 many in Charlie company had given in to an easy pattern of violence. Such soldiers were blind to the humanity of the Vietnamese people. It takes a human being to recognize the humanity in another and many American soldiers chose to murder their own humanity with the officially-encouraged sadism of the Vietnam Genocide. It was open season on all Vietnamese people, American soldiers dehumanized the Vietnamese people, calling them gooks and dinks Women and girls were routinely raped. In their own sick minds. A total of 504 helpless human beings were sadistically slaughtered at My Lai 4 by soldiers of the United States Army. All of the victims were either old women, young women, old men, boys, girls or babies. There were no young Vietnamese men there. The American soldiers were never fired upon. They found no Viet Cong and no weapons.
Helicopter pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson and his crew were the only other soldiers who had the guts to stand up to the filthy homicidal psychopaths of the United States Army at My Lai. He landed his chopper in a field between the American soldiers and the women and children. Thompson then warned the soldiers that his crew was ready to open up on them if they did not stop.

Kent State: What Happened and Why
by James A. Michener
Out of Print.
available used & new

Web Links
The Vietnam War
Delta to the DMZ
Politics to Hippies

Levitate the Pentagon (1967)

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Statistics about the Vietnam War

Search the Wall

Kent State: Remembering May 4, 1970

Information on the four young students who were murdered that tragic day
Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Bill Schoeder, and Sandra Scheuer

French Indochina War late 40s & early 50s

The Mylai Massacre Trial

An Artist's Portrait of
HOCHI MINH

International War Crimes Tribunal - 1967

PORTRAITS
of VIETNAM
by Paul Emma

Viet Nam Generation Journal Online

Declassified CIA Documents on the Vietnam War

Political Cartoons from Herb Block

Another Vietnam pictures of the War from the other side

Political Posters from the United States, Cuba and Viet Nam-1965-1975

Vietnam-The Whole World Was Watching

Latin America into the 1960s

The Most Dangerous Moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis

*It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause...Ronald Reagan, Oct. 1980* The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine A shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War. Photos. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information. Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War *** by James Lewes Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War * by David Cortright Howard Zinn (Introduction) Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home When South Vietnam fell in 1975, the children of Vietnamese women and American servicemen were left behind. Freelance writer Bass spent many years investigating the tragic story of these children who were considered " the dust of life" in their homeland. The U.S. government was unwilling to acknowledge their paternity and accept responsibility and the chilren were not allowed to emigrate to their fathers' country until 1987. The interviews with U.S. and Vietnamese officials, social workers and especially, the children themselves are a very troubling tale of racism, fraud, and corruption. We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam *** by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway A study of the 1965 battle of Ia Drang, in the central highlands of South Vietnam, provides a blow-by-blow account of the battle and the implications of this key confrontation. The basis of the major motion picture starring Mel Gibson. "The United States is to experience not a social revolution at the hands of its own people, but a military defeat at the hands of twenty, thirty, many Vietnams — plus a few Detroits ~ Carl Oglesby, in Liberation, 1969 It is impossible to imagine any significant Vietnam collection's being without this book. Cultural Battles: The Meaning of the Vietnam - USA War by Peter McGregor Out of Print. used & new available from $15.00	The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam *** by Barbara W. Tuchman (Author) More than half of this study of "the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests" deals with the United States and the war in Vietnam. Shorter comparative case studies analyze the Trojan horse disaster, the failure of the Papacy to deal with the Reformation, and the loss of the American colonies by the British. The book is in the Tuchman tradition: readable, entertaining, intelligent. It should lead a wide audience to think usefully about "the persistence of error."...Gaddis Smith, Foreign Affairs Barbara W. Tuchman died of complications of a stroke on February 6, 1989, at her home in Cos Cob, Connecticut. She left behind a better understanding of what preceded and followed the men preparing for war and war itself. She made history an enjoyable readable experience. Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam * by Lynda Van Devanter, Lynda Van Devanter whose 1983 book "Home Before Morning" inspired the 1988-91 television series "China Beach," died Nov. 15 at her home in Herndon, Va. The cause was systemic collagen vascular disease, which she had attributed to her exposure in Vietnam to chemicals including the defoliant Agent Orange. She was 55. * DVD recommendations * The Atomic Cafe Released in 1982, its producers spent years toiling over Government A-bomb test and propaganda films, military training films, news reel footage, radio broadcasts, and other sources, to come up with one of the most chilling, and hilarious, movies ever made. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) More DVD's Good Morning, Vietnam Atomic War Bride/This Is Not a Test Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960) Seven Days in May (1964) Sir! No Sir! - The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam National Geographic Vietnam's Unseen War** Agent Orange: The Last Battle Produced by Adam Scholl and Stephanie Jobe This film is educational not entertaining. The film may be hard for some to view as it reflects the lives of those that are suffering, but it will leave you with that feeling of “What can I do?”.
"If we don't stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers?"..... Neil J. Seattle, Age 9

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause...Ronald Reagan, Oct. 1980

The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine
A shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information.

Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War *****
by James Lewes

Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War *****
by David Cortright
Howard Zinn (Introduction)

Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home
When South Vietnam fell in 1975, the children of Vietnamese women and American servicemen were left behind.
Freelance writer Bass spent many years investigating the tragic story of these children who were considered " the dust of life" in their homeland.
The U.S. government was unwilling to acknowledge their paternity and accept responsibility and the chilren were not allowed to emigrate to their fathers' country until 1987.
The interviews with U.S. and Vietnamese officials, social workers and especially, the children themselves are a very troubling tale of racism, fraud, and corruption.

We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam *****
by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway
A study of the 1965 battle of Ia Drang, in the central highlands of South Vietnam, provides a blow-by-blow account of the battle and the implications of this key confrontation. The basis of the major motion picture starring Mel Gibson.

"The United States is to experience not a social revolution at the hands of its own people, but a military defeat at the hands of twenty, thirty, many Vietnams — plus a few Detroits
~ Carl Oglesby, in Liberation, 1969

It is impossible to imagine any significant Vietnam collection's being without this book.
Cultural Battles: The Meaning of the Vietnam - USA War
by Peter McGregor
Out of Print. used & new available from $15.00

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam *****
by Barbara W. Tuchman (Author)
More than half of this study of "the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests" deals with the United States and the war in Vietnam. Shorter comparative case studies analyze the Trojan horse disaster, the failure of the Papacy to deal with the Reformation, and the loss of the American colonies by the British. The book is in the Tuchman tradition: readable, entertaining, intelligent. It should lead a wide audience to think usefully about "the persistence of error."...Gaddis Smith, Foreign Affairs
Barbara W. Tuchman died of complications of a stroke on February 6, 1989, at her home in Cos Cob, Connecticut. She left behind a better understanding of what preceded and followed the men preparing for war and war itself. She made history an enjoyable readable experience.

Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam *****
by Lynda Van Devanter,
Lynda Van Devanter whose 1983 book "Home Before Morning" inspired the 1988-91 television series "China Beach," died Nov. 15 at her home in Herndon, Va.
The cause was systemic collagen vascular disease, which she had attributed to her exposure in Vietnam to chemicals including the defoliant Agent Orange. She was 55.

***** DVD recommendations *****

The Atomic Cafe
Released in 1982, its producers spent years toiling over Government A-bomb test and propaganda films, military training films, news reel footage, radio broadcasts, and other sources, to come up with one of the most chilling, and hilarious, movies ever made.

Dr Strangelove Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

More DVD's
Good Morning, Vietnam
Atomic War Bride/This Is Not a Test
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Sir! No Sir! - The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam

National Geographic Vietnam's Unseen War

Agent Orange - The Last Battle Agent Orange: The Last Battle
Produced by Adam Scholl and
Stephanie Jobe
This film is educational not entertaining. The film may be hard for some to view as it reflects the lives of those that are suffering, but it will leave you with that feeling of
“What can I do?”.

"If we don't stop the bomb who will take care of the flowers?"..... Neil J. Seattle, Age 9

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THE SIXTIES

ANTI WAR

Levitate the Pentagon (1967) Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Levitate the Pentagon (1967)

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space