Front page of Rising Up Angry's newspaper May 14, 1972. The escalation referred to was the bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITSb--T7pGix1xc0A4BtwF2fWh2PAcqL/view?usp=sharing
An alternative look at the history of the 1970s by Ron Jacobs
Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Monday, May 7, 2018
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
June 13, 1971 Pentagon Papers
The Nixon regime shut the Times down, but was overturned by the courts.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/2011_PENTAGON_PAPERS.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/2011_PENTAGON_PAPERS.html?_r=0
Labels:
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
War Is Over 1975
May 11, 1975 War is Over concert in Central Park, NYC. Saigon was liberated days before....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrkPP_g8Xs
I write about another celebration in College Park, MD...in my book Daydream Sunset...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrkPP_g8Xs
I write about another celebration in College Park, MD...in my book Daydream Sunset...
Labels:
1975,
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Cambodia,
counterculture,
Kissinger,
Patti Smith,
Vietnam,
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Winter Soldier Investigation January 31 - February 2, 1971
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Monday, August 22, 2016
August 23, 1972: Last Official US Combat Troops Leave Vietnam
Although the combat troops had left, there were still several tens of thousands of troops in country, not to mention CIA mercenaries, Special Forces, and others. In addition, the bombing would go on for years, including the Christmas bombings at the end of 1972--some of the heaviest bombing raids in the history of bombing raids. I thought I would link to this pamphlet written by Overseas Weekly writer Richard Boyle describing GI resistance to the war....Overseas Weekly was an unofficial newspaper written for GIs and sold in the PX alongside the official Stars & Stripes.....The resistance Boyle writes about is part of the reason the war was Vietnamized and US troops were slowly removed from in country....while the killing dragged on....
https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam
https://libcom.org/history/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam
Monday, August 1, 2016
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Scanlan's Monthly
Scanlan's Monthly was a short-lived magazine in 1970-1971. Edited by San Francisco's Warren Hinckle, it featured excellent writing, in depth and cutthroat journalism and the attention of the FBI. The January 1971 issue was titled Guerrilla War in the USA.
a link to that issue is below...
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/W%20Disk/War%20Guerrilla/Item%2001A.pdf
a link to that issue is below...
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/W%20Disk/War%20Guerrilla/Item%2001A.pdf
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
War is Over May 1975
On May 11, 1975 Phil Ochs and others hosted a celebration in Central Park of the final end of the US war on the Vietnamese. Titled "War is Over," it featured Joan Baez, Lee Hays, Tom Paxton, Patti Smith and many others. (see setlist below)
On May 12, 1975. Saigon fell to the Vietnamese national liberation forces and US troops, CIA and others fled.
On May 12, 1975. Saigon fell to the Vietnamese national liberation forces and US troops, CIA and others fled.
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