CAS HI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Operation Rolling Thunder, The Credibility Gap, Tet Offensive
5 May 2019
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Corrupt leader of vietnam, north vietnam communist and south vietnam anti- Vietnam became another staging area for the cold war. Johnson begins operation rolling thunder in 1965, sustained bombing campaign that breaks the will of north vietnam with guerillas, hearting the resolve with north. By 1966, vietnam is beginning to dominate public discourse. Us advisors hoped to outlast the vietnamese with ongoing bombing campaigns. The television war - draft week, thousands of students turn in their draft card and burn them up. Americans continued to support the war until about 1968. Framed as a war on television, poses new challenges for journalists. Most footage runs about 48 hours behind because it takes that long to get a reel back to the united states, most reels don"t show fighting or blood until later in the war. Early coverage of the war is criticized by some as a propaganda campaign. b. )
