Reporting Vietnam : American journalism, 1959-1975

Reporting Vietnam : American journalism, 1959-1975 / introduction by Ward Just.

Gathers original newspaper and magazine articles to capture the immediacy of events as they happened during the course of the war.

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Library of America, ©2000.
Series:Library of America.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Press coverage > United States.
Journalism > United States > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • TlME Death at Intermission Time
  • First U.S. Advisers Killed in South Vietnam: July 1919
  • MALCOLM W. BROWNE Paddy War
  • Guerrilla War i the Mekong Delta: December 1961
  • HOMER BIGART A "Very Real War" in Vietnam and the Deep U.S. Commitment
  • Increasing American Involvement: February 1962
  • BERNARD B. FALL Master of the Red Jab
  • Interview with Ho Chi Minh: July 1962
  • MALCOLM W. BROWNE "He Was Sitting in the Center of a Colunh of Flame"
  • Suicide in Saigon: June 1963
  • STANLEY KARNOW The Fall of the House of Ngo Dinh
  • Overthrow of Diem: November 1963
  • DAVID HALBERSTAM "They Can Win a War If Someone
  • Shows Them How"
  • Profile of John Paul Vann: 1962-1964
  • U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT "We Are Losing, Morale
  • Is Bad ... If They'd Give Us Good Planes ..."
  • A Pilot's Letters Home: November 1963-March 1964
  • MEG GREENFIELD After the Washington Teach-In
  • Controversy Over the War Intensifies: May 1965
  • DON MOSER Eight Dedicated Men Marked for Death
  • Struggle for Loc Dien: Summer 1965
  • BERNARD B. FALL Vietnam Blitz: A Report on the Impersonal War
  • American Buildup: September 1965
  • SPECIALIST 4/C JACK P. SMITH Death in the Ia Drang Valley
  • "Men All Around Me Were Screaming": November 1965
  • HENRY F. GRAPF Teach-In on Vietnam By ... The
  • President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State
  • The Administration Defends Its Policies: February 1966.
  • WARD S. JUST Reconnaissance
  • Combat in the Central Highlands: June 1966
  • NEIL SHEEHAN Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk
  • Veteran Reporter Reassesses the War: October 1966
  • BERNARD B. FALL "Unrepentant, Unyielding": An
  • Interview with Viet Cong Prisoners
  • U.S. Offensive in the Iron Triangle: January 1967
  • JONATHAN RANDAL U.S. Marines Seize 3d Hill in Vietnam After I2-Day Push
  • Khe Sanh Hill Fights: May 1967
  • JONATHAN SCHELL from The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin
  • Southern I Corps: August 1967
  • MICHAEL J. ARLEN A Day in the Life
  • A TV Crew at Con Thien: September 1967
  • NORMAN MAILER from The Armies of the Night
  • The March on the Pentagon: October 1967
  • PETER ARNETT Hill
  • Battle of Dak To: November 1967
  • TOM WOLPE The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie
  • Air War Over North Vietnam: December 1967
  • DON OBERDORER from Tet!
  • The Viet Cong in Hue: January-February 1968
  • MICHAEL HERR from Dispatches: "Hell Sucks"
  • Hue: February 1968
  • JOHN T. WHEELER Life in the V Ring
  • Khe Sanh Under Siege: February 1968
  • MARY MCCARTHY Hanoi-March 1968
  • An American in North Vietnam: March-April 1968
  • THOMAS A. JOHNSON The U.S. Negro in Vietnam
  • Black Servicemen and the War: 1968
  • KEVIN BUCKLEY A Small Contribution
  • Firefight Near Loc Ninh: October 1968
  • ZALIN GRANT "We Lived for a Time Like Dogs."
  • American POWs in a Jungle Camp: July 1968-January 1969
  • JEFFREY BLANKFORT Our Town: The War
  • Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio
  • A Small Town Mourns Its Dead: Spring 1969
  • WALLACE TERRY Black Power in Viet Nam
  • Racial Tensions in the Military: September 1969
  • PETER R KANN A Long, Leisurely Drive Through
  • Mekong Delta Tells Much of the War
  • Pacification and Vietnamization: November 1969
  • SEYMOUR M. HERSH The My Lai Massacre
  • An Atrocity Is Uncovered: November 1969
  • T.D. ALLMAN Massacre at Takeo
  • Cambodia: April 1970
  • JAMES A. MICHENER from Kent State: What Happened and Why
  • Kent, Ohio: May 1970
  • STEWART ALSOP The American Class System
  • Fairness and the Draft: 1970
  • JOHN SAAR You Can't Just Hand Out Orders
  • An Army of Reluctant Draftees: October 1970
  • DORIS KEARNS from Who Was Lyndon Baines Jonnson?
  • LBJ Remembers Vietnam: 1970
  • JOHN E. WOODRUFr The Meo of Laos
  • The Hmong: February 1971
  • GLORIA EMERSON Copters Return from Laos with the. Dead
  • "A small despairing scene": February 1971
  • GLORIA EMERSON Spirit of Saigon's Army Shaken in Laos
  • "They all became dust": March 1971
  • KARL FLEMING The Homecoming of Chris Mead
  • A Veteran Returns: March 1971.
  • DONALD KIRK Who Wants To Be the Last American
  • Killed in Vietnam?
  • Troop Withdrawals and Morale: August 1971
  • TOM BUCKLEY Portrait of an Aging Despot
  • A Visit with General Loan: 1971
  • ROBERT SHAPLEN We Have Always Survived.
  • Life in Saigon: Spring 1972
  • JOHN SAAR Report from the Inferno
  • The North Vietnamese Offensive: April 1972
  • PETER BRAESTRUP The South Vietnamese Army
  • Commanders and Soldiers: July 1972
  • JOSEPH KRAFT Letter from Hanoi
  • "We have been fighting eleven centuries": July 1972
  • HUNTER S. THOMPSON from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
  • Protests at the Republican Convention, Miami: August 1972
  • Fox BUTTERIELD Who Was This Enemy?
  • Writings by North Vietnamese Soldiers: 1973
  • ARNOLD R. ISAACS War Lingers in Hamlets as Cease-Fire Hour Passes
  • After the Cease-Fire: January 1973
  • JoHN S. MCCAN III How the POW's Fought Back
  • A Navy Pilot in North Vietnam: October 1967-March 1973
  • SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG Bomb Error Leaves Havoc in Neak Luong
  • War in Cambodia: August 1973
  • DONALD KIRK "I watched them saw him 3 days" A ghmer Rouge Execution: July 1974
  • PAUL VOGLE A Flight Into Hell
  • The Fall of Danang: March 1975
  • LE KIM DINH For Those Who Flee, Life Is
  • "Hell on Earth"
  • Refugees at Cam Ranh Bay: April 1975
  • SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG The Fall of Phnom Penh
  • Cambodia: April-May 1975
  • PHILIP CAPUTO "Running Again-the Last Retreat"
  • Refugees on "the street without joy": April 1975
  • KEYES BEECH We Clawed for Our Lives!
  • A Reporter Flees Saigon: April 1975
  • BOB TAMARKIN Diary of S. Viet's Last Hours
  • The Evacuation Ends: April 1975
  • MALCOLM W. BROWNE Tenderness, Hatred and Grief Mark Saigon's Last Days
  • "Vietnam's black fate": May 1975.

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