David Halberstam
& Neil Sheehan
Program Video Clip List |
| Clip # |
Start Time |
End Time |
Description |
| 1 |
00:20.0 |
02:07.8 |
Video clip of Operation Hawthorne in Vietnam; Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Neil Sheehan's initial visit to Vietnam during the War and the state of the country; his assignment in Vietnam |
| 2 |
02:07.8 |
03:32.0 |
David Halberstam's arrival in Vietnam; his recollection of the country |
| 3 |
03:32.0 |
04:36.5 |
Sheehan's view of President Kennedy's foreign affairs management |
| 4 |
04:36.5 |
05:56.3 |
U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam; explanation of Kennedy advisory and support mission |
| 5 |
06:24.1 |
09:06.0 |
Sheehan describes his first helicopter mission |
| 6 |
09:06.0 |
11:07.5 |
Halberstam's opposition to the propaganda about Vietnam War produced by the U.S. government |
| 7 |
11:28.2 |
13:51.0 |
Halberstam's thoughts on current U.S. and Iraq affairs |
| 8 |
13:51.0 |
15:23.6 |
Sheehan's response to the Vietnam War being a "winnable" war
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| 9 |
15:27.3 |
17:06.1 |
Halberstam explains why the Vietnam War was not winnable |
| 10 |
17:14.5 |
20:03.1 |
Sheehan discusses a comment made by Lyndon B. Johnson about the American soldier; portrayal of the American soldier in comparison to Vietnamese soldiers |
| 11 |
20:06.0 |
22:07.8 |
Vietnam's political tactics in winning the war |
| 12 |
22:11.5 |
23:36.3 |
America's initial involvement in the Vietnam War
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| 13 |
23:36.3 |
27:41.6 |
Audiotape clip of conversation between Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Kirk discussing the situation in Vietnam; domestic pressures on the President; the U.S. military's lack of knowledge of Vietnam |
| 14 |
27:43.7 |
31:40.8 |
Sheehan and Halberstam's coverage of the war in Northern Saigon and the Delta; Officer Matthew Bunker Ridgway's report |
| 15 |
32:02.3 |
33:45.0 |
Sheehan and Halberstam explain political decisions of LBJ to go to war
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| 16 |
33:46.8 |
35:35.3 |
Economic benefits of the Vietnam War; Sheehan comments on LBJ's administrative decision to go to war
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| 17 |
35:35.3 |
36:35.9 |
Neil Sheehan's next book; introduction of David Halberstam's book written by John McCain |
| 18 |
36:35.9 |
38:50.7 |
The deficit of the U.S. government and its negative response to reporters such as Halberstam and Sheehan during the War |
| 19 |
38:54.1 |
40:16.0 |
Ho Chi Minh supports the U.S. war in Vietnam |
| 20 |
40:18.3 |
42:18.0 |
Causes of the Vietnam War revisited |
| 21 |
42:20.6 |
44:27.8 |
Communism in Vietnam; Vietnamese nationalism
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| 22 |
44:38.9 |
45:18.0 |
Photos of John Brown, soldier in the war from 1966-68 |
| 23 |
46:35.8 |
51:14.5 |
1965 audiotape clip of LBJ and Robert McNamara, Defense Secretary, conferring on an update of the war situation; Sheehan and Halberstam give their views of the tone of the audiotaped conversation
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| 24 |
51:17.9 |
52:28.8 |
Parallels between LBJ's attitude toward Vietnam and current U.S. attitudes about foreign adversaries today
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| 25 |
52:31.1 |
55:02.3 |
Kennedy's publicity ploy in 1965
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| 26 |
55:04.2 |
56:27.7 |
Soldiers in combat in Vietnam |
| 27 |
56:36.5 |
58:16.6 |
U.S. leaves the Vietnam War |
| 28 |
58:28.0 |
01:00:58 |
A look at the conservative side of the war; hypothetical aspect of LBJ pulling out of the war
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| 29 |
01:01:27 |
01:03:18 |
Legacy of Vietnam that still affects us today |
| 30 |
01:03:21 |
01:05:55 |
Supplies put through in South Vietnam |
| 31 |
01:05:56 |
01:07:37 |
Statistics of U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam between 1960-73; dynamics of the war |
| 32 |
01:07:39 |
01:09:19 |
Political leadership and the social cost of the war |
| 33 |
01:09:22 |
01:14:12 |
How the media portrayed the atrocities of the war; deaths in South Vietnam; Video clip of William Prochnau talking about Vietnam correspondents; correspondents' role during the war |
| 34 |
01:14:14 |
01:17:17 |
Parallels in handling of the Vietnamese and today's Muslims |
| 35 |
01:17:20 |
01:20:32 |
Feedback on Sheehan's book, A Bright, Shining Lie; 7th division in Vietnam |
| 36 |
01:20:34 |
01:22:39 |
Vietnam seen as a poor man's war; future speculation of a non-military Congress |
| 37 |
01:22:39 |
01:25:09 |
1966 videotape of Robert McNamara, Defense Secretary, briefing reporters at the Pentagon; Sheehan's view of McNamara's credibility during the war |
| 38 |
01:25:12 |
01:29:16 |
Ferocious bombing tactic used by U.S. at the end of the war; Cambodia border used as staging area; Sheehan and Halberstam's last visits to Vietnam |
| 39 |
01:29:18 |
01:31:37 |
War journalism differences; why coverage of today's war is not like the coverage for Vietnam; tight reigns of government on reporters today |
| 40 |
1:31:37 |
1:34:28 |
Problems faced by Vietnam veterans today; perceptions and misperceptions about veterans' lives after the war |
| 41 |
1:34:29 |
1:36:47 |
Halberstam's criticism of McNamara's handling of information; comparison to Eagleburger's handling of the Balkans |
| 42 |
1:36:48 |
1:39:18 |
Videoclip of Nixon, from 1969, explaining why the U.S. could not accept defeat in Vietnam; comments about Nixon's shifting approach to continuation of the war; impact of his approach |
| 43 |
1:40:11 |
1:43:16 |
1971 story about the Pentagon Papers; they offered insight about the behind the scenes decisions about the war; Robert McNamara and his conflicted views about the war, his long silence |
| 44 |
1:44:22 |
1:45:56 |
More on McNamara; his background, came from Ford Motor Company; he was interested in numbersm statistics |
| 45 |
1:48:18 |
1:49:17 |
Differences between World War II and Vietnam and today's war against terrorism; U.S. leadership |
| 46 |
1:50:50 |
1:52:42 |
Assasination of President Ngo Dinh Diem; he was misunderstood by the Americans directing him |
| 47 |
1:53:10 |
1:56:09 |
Lessons offered by Vietnam; what impact the Korean War had on the Vietnam War |
| 48 |
1:56:30 |
1:57:55 |
John Paul Vahn, the subject of A Bright, Shining Lie; the movie made about the book |
| 49 |
1:58:40 |
2:00:40 |
No definitive written work yet from the perspective of the Vietnamese |
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