HIST 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dean Rusk, Jane Fonda, Pentagon Papers
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All statements of fact had to be reported in the field by official u. s. government sources or accepted scholarly works. Drew extensively on the study of the pentagon papers, commissioned by the. Secretary of defense robert mcnamara who was seeking the history of u. s. involvement in vietnam as an "encyclopedic and objective" Written over a year and a half by 36 defense department, state. Department and major institutes experts, the report totals 47 volumes, about 7,000 pages in length. We"re looking for the broadest possible variety as regards views. You can hear the voices of major political figures like dean rusk and william fulbright, celebrities like jane fonda and bob hope, and many political and military experts on these pages. You"ll also hear from vietnam"s not-so famous veterans, ordinary vietnamese and. American citizens, whose views are usually left out of official accounts. Interested in what if they felt like being in war.
