Preview: 'The American War,' a podcast guide to the new PBS documentary 'The Vietnam War'
Preview: 'The American War,' a podcast guide to the new PBS documentary 'The Vietnam War'
Over 10 episodes, host Alyssa Rosenberg will be joined by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and other collaborators on the film to ... Read more
11 Sep 2017
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3mins
Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”
Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”
In the premiere episode of “The American War,” Alyssa talks to Ken Burns and Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall about Ep... Read more
18 Sep 2017
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22mins
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Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”
Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”
It’s easy to say now that the Vietnam War was always a doomed endeavor. But Americans who went to fight in Vietnam thoug... Read more
19 Sep 2017
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22mins
Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”
Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”
To truly understand what happened to America in Vietnam, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick knew they had to talk to our former o... Read more
20 Sep 2017
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22mins
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Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”
Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”
Many of the Gold Star parents who lost their children in Vietnam are aging, and as they are, their stories are being los... Read more
21 Sep 2017
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22mins
Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”
Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”
As African Americans fought for their rights at home, anti-Asian racism shaped American policy in Vietnam and became a c... Read more
22 Sep 2017
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20mins
Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”
Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”
The Vietnam War produced indelible wartime photography. “The Vietnam War” takes a closer look at the stories behind the ... Read more
25 Sep 2017
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21mins
Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”
Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”
In America, the My Lai massacre helped turn Americans against the war, while in Vietnam, atrocities such as the massacre... Read more
26 Sep 2017
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26mins
Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”
Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”
The Kent State massacre was one of the most searing domestic moments of the antiwar movement. Alyssa talks to Ken and Ly... Read more
27 Sep 2017
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28mins
Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”
Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”
Some soldiers in Vietnam fought bravely, and then came home to oppose the war they’d served in. Their experiences are a ... Read more
28 Sep 2017
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23mins
