I LOVE PBS - "The Vietnam War by Ken Burns" - 18 hours! Since It was The Major Event of my childhood... It was quite important to learn the accurate history... Starting in 1850 with the country of France invading Vietnam and making it a colony...

I donated $100 and that unlocked "My Passport" so I can watch any PBS show at any time...

I did not go to Vietnam. Since I turned 18 in 1972 I was required to register for the draft but was NOT called to serve... Very lucky for me... 

There's a lot of film of President Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon... One little known fact is that Kennedy planned to end the war entirely in 1965. And he signed a Presidential Directive... Of course, since he was assassinated... That plan did not happen... It makes me wonder about the motive for the Kennedy assassination... Dow Chemical made a fortune selling Napalm and Agent Orange to the US Military and so if Kennedy ended the war they would lose a lot of business... Possible motive... 

There was no mention in this documentary of the burning of the Bank of America in Isla Vista near the University of California Santa Barbara... An event that happened when my brother was a student there... 






But I am "in" the documentary... I went to "The Moratorium" and marched in San Francisco and eventually ended up at the polo fields... We chartered a bus from Los Gatos High School, cut class, and then protested... The next day we were all called into the principal's office... And he told us that there would be no punishment for cutting class... And that we should think about why...

https://www.foundsf.org/Moratorium_1969

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html