so as the vietnam experience began, the u.s. government from president kennedy in particular and president johnson made it their job to lobby intensely with american newspaper editors and television directors to shape the image coming out of vietnam. because of the nature of america's commitment there was never a declared war. still has not been declared. there was a limited engagement and beginning with advisers and american troops in smaller groups, finally becoming quite a large army, over half a million. this was never a conflict in which the u.s. government felt it could impose the kind of censorship that was common in world war ii, world war i and gloria and that censorship would be obligated to run their photographs and written material past military censors, publishers at home would be expected to take a patriotic look at what was going on in a conflict like vietnam or overseas commitment, when i go there in 1962 i was joined by at group of young american journalists, mel brown, all graduates from ivy league university,

tavis: in "beyond vietnam," dr. king also addressed another one of the most important issues with which he had been grappling how, as a proponent of nonviolence, he could remain silent about an ongoing war. >> my third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the north over the last three years, especially the last three summers. as i have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, i have told them that molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. i have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. but they ask, and rightly so, what about vietnam? and i knew that i could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. tavis: tomorrow night, part two of our look at dr. king's stand a

martin luther king's speech "beyond vietnam." it was april 4th, 1967 at riverside church in new york. >> these are revolutionary times. all over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born. the shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. "the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light." we in the west must support these revolutions. it is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. this has driven many to feel that only marxism has a revolutionary spirit. therefore, communism is a judgment against our failure to make democracy real and follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spi

. >> jason jones reports on the challenges facing the veterans of the vietnam war. >> when vietnam vets returned home they were ostracized, called unspeakable things, even spit on. sadly that continues today. >> it has been hell. >> we are stigmaized and excluded. >> being a veteran is like a second class citizen. >> let me get the problem here, hippies do you want to beat some up? >> no. >> trust me you smack them around with a baseball bat they won't think it's see -- so groovy. >> it's not the hippies. who are you angry with? >> the military. >> i'm mad at the military because we're going through post traumatic stress and the military has turned their backs on us. >> it's estimated 500,000 vets got ptsd in vietnam yet hundreds of themes of them are ineligible for treatment which raises a fascinating question: what the (bleep)? >> a bad discharge. >> a bad discharge prohibits us from being eligible for a lot of things we would normal i will be entitled to. >> how do you get that less than honorable discharge? >> ptsd we got in vietnam. >> i guess my follow up question would be: are yo

coffee prolly assess the need for an area of vietnam. having that one brand. having that warns taught us that what creates some in the fall swap called them and follows on from whom to have small reception on coffee. maybe for decades up to the end of the vietnam war although the comedy swedish its grip on power remains firm. little by little the economy continues to open up so in this he believes not always visible to the naked eye. it's the origin of all the rage of fuel and the air we breathe now the french center for scientific research has published a new index classifying thousands of species that night. today these two biologists are also on the fishing trip at this that he often suffer from did you know. you think that way invisible. the discipline the festival animals won the two centimeters long. i can see it's not snowing around the net. the inside but on his out. they got to escort content. it comes to life under the microscope. i don't know. i am. the street looking creatures sometimes have to make it reeks of the mind of the animals we know. the

tavis: beyond vietnam was a long speech, more than 45 minutes. when dr. king finished, the crowd erupted in sustained applause. but that support was short-lived by morning. the political fallout was intense and far-reaching. the already strained relationship between president johnson and dr. king became fractured beyond repair. organizationkings began to dry up and the mainstream press denounced him in a notion -- in no uncertain arms am a charging him as civil rights leader, he was not qualified to talk about human rights -- to talk about u.s. foreign-policy. was the place irrelevant, the audience are relevant, and it just rests on his words and wherever he offered that speech he would've caught -- >> i think he would have caught the same firestorm. what they said was not only we don't like your message, we are in the middle of the war. and we don't want to hear you say we are violent. you are a civil rights leader. you are a black guy. stick to what you know and leave the war to us. it united "the new york times" and "the washington post.: -- post." wil

. , force that was essentially fighting early wars in vietnam. he by the end of third term in office, had ordered withdrawal. they were starting to pull american troops out. it strikes me that kennedy was seeing that the american effort to try and create a government that would have the kind of values that america could support, have a bought in vietnam that could perform the kind of military and leadership capabilities to make a new south korea, which was talked about, south vietnam being like south korea, they just didn't have it. kennedy approved the overthrow of president ziem in 1963. the cia helped engineer that and of course president kennedy himself unfortunately was to be assassinated three weeks later. so therefore you have, you know, i think historically an opportunity that early to maybe prevent the tremendous loss of, not only american life but of vietnamese life that followed the administration of president johnson and then of president nixon. bearing in mind that as many americans died under the administration of president nixon as

there is rapidly rising demand for electricity in vietnam as the economy grows. trey has been my mall called for thermal power generation spurs have been warning about the lack of safety measures and fitness minds they say equipment to monitor the level of flammable gases is outdated the government says it's trying to make all our minds so for the help of japan and other countries. my energy is a major shock for vietnam but the consummate delay act and to build its first nuclear power plants. what should his paper reported on thursday backed prime minister went on his own son at work in vietnam's first nuclear power plant will probably have to be delayed until two thousand and twenty. don't already said that the project requires the highest standards of safety the papers that as the local state owned vietnam to ensure its eyes mouth and asked to approve the plan to me after the energy shortfall caused by the postponement the government plans to build the plant in the province of me won but the help of state on russian energy firm rossa time vietnam has chosen a j

the war in vietnam was raging at that point in time. there were many, many people who are working for change in those areas in particular. my main focus at that time was the antiwar movement. i was, you know, spending as withtime as i could organizing against the war, but i have become very frustrated with legal protests. they did not seem to be getting us anywhere. the government wasn't listening. the war was escalating. i think what really pushed me over the edge was shortly after the invasion of cambodia, there were four students killed at kent state and two more killed at jackson state. i'm sorry. have thisink i would down after all these years. that really pushed me over the edge, that it was time to do more than just protest and march with a sign. called catholic- left which is where i met john and bonnie and bill devitt -- davidon. the next up was the media action. >> keith, could you also talk about how you are invited to join this plan to break in by william davidon? >> if memory serves, he called me -- >> explained who he was.

of this post vietnam. was focused like a laser on how to drive to baghdad and then destroyed the iraqi army and overthrow the government. neither she nor his bosses, secretary of defense donald rumsfeld paid sufficient attention to the question. it was a massive intellectual failure. of course, the consequent is that the massive intellectual failure, the ironic outcome is that the army in iraq found out fighting the vietnam war all over again can equally unsuccessfully in my judgment. >> next question. >> hi. i have a bumper sticker on my car that says wars not the answer. i happen to be a big fan of your proposal just to stop it. of course the question is a poor is not the answer, what is he in there? i'm wondering if either of you are familiar with the working paper published by the service committee and the friends committee on national legislation. both quaker organizations called shared security. i am wondering if you are familiar with that paper and your thoughts on it. as we try to figure out what t

for vietnam and make them bleed and that's what happened in these groups that's the genesis of these groups and that policy is a policy that's been used throughout the region and elsewhere by the united states consciously i think you learned a lot you know i mean i'm going to jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on iraq and afghanistan state with our team. similarly sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. and the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. to enter our territorial waters they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. he survived war atrocities. to make a psychologist so she. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving up. hope. and loves to so many children. by the american worker on the tape and. and . welcome back to cross talk where all things are considere

for vietnam and make them bleed and that's what happened in these groups that's the genesis of these groups and that policy is a policy that's been used throughout the region and elsewhere by the united states consciously or not you know i mean what you know i mean i'm going to jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on iraq and afghanistan state with our team. new zealand. leg. or leg. that was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little elite. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news lead alexander's family cry tears of the war you and your great things rather that have been regarded in a court of law on the ground alive there's a story made sort of movies playing out in real life. the. plenty of it was terrible they are led very hard to take another look a little longer here a plug in that has sex with the earthquake there. little. league. lifts a little sleepy. little . legs. or less about. the. put it under the market like. a. pleasure to have you with us here on

for vietnam and make them bleed and that's what happened in these groups that's the genesis of these groups and that policy is a policy that's been used throughout the region and elsewhere by the united states consciously or not you know i mean what you know i mean i'm going to jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on iraq and afghanistan state with our team. one of the wonderful. new knowledge base. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. once the territorial waters if they fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. lead it was a. very hard to take i. once again there is a law that you that has sex with that hurt their feelings. about the law. please. please. please. p

and we went to an agony to do it remember we had five hundred thousand troops in vietnam we lost we had no business being there we had no business getting five hundred thousand troops in the middle east in one thousand nine hundred two and the other thing is. at that point all i was going to say about nine eleven you know in this talk about the august sixth presidential briefing that said you know strike within the us but since that we've known that it's not just that it's dozens and dozens of warnings from all over the world and also internal cia warnings to the highest echelons of the department i just find it hard to believe that it was pure nepotism i mean we already know that this government has a track record of just completely not caring about human life is there any inkling in your mind at all that they allowed these attacks to happen. i think that's you know i i you know it's a question i'm not an expert in that situation and it did accomplish what's important to me as the conclusions of nine eleven made the united states a different country we became far more conservative

the madman nixon proposed that he would use nuclear weapons in vietnam he never came about because he was already bombing the hell out of the place and those massive bomb related one who followed him in said that the united states threatened nuclear war thirteen times against. unbelievable and this brings me to reagan's obsession with the star wars fantasy and. and i think it was almost the most despicable part of the story was seen that there was actually a once in a lifetime chance for nuclear disarmament and he just started under it. because they were at regular times and at reykjavik reagan clung so fiercely to his fantasy about star wars gorbachev was proposing that we give up all nuclear weapons and he said that as long as you keep star wars testing in the laboratory rather than do outside testing for ten years we'll sign off on eliminating nuclear weapons and reagan refused to do it shops and the others were so heartbroken because they saw how close we came but reagan would not let go of that and gorbachev was furious i mean let's go right to now are we in this situation exists

and the fact that vietnam imports and china is number one, vietnam is number two as far as importing sneakers from those two countries that manipulate the currency, that have child labor, no environmental laws, could jeopardize the three facilities we have in maine. i know there are others outside the country. what is really frustrating is this administration, the president made very clear in his state of the union address, he wants buy american. we currently have a law on the books, the berry amendment which requires the military be clothed from head to toe with american-made clothing. new balance and wolverine, these two companies, 100% of the materials that they're made in those sneakers made in america. however, we have not been able to get the administration to move forward with the berry amendment, and now we're dealing with tpp. >> i want to say it is not just about american workers. of course that's a first priority. but this trade pact would also harm workers across the globe. it would make the cost of drugs, doctors without borders say it's the worst pact ever when it comes

for vietnam and make them bleed and that's what happened in these groups that's the genesis of these groups and that policy is a policy that's been used throughout the region and elsewhere by the united states consciously or not you know i mean a lot you know i mean i'm going to jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on iraq and afghanistan state with our team. new zealand. it's. the european union is taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. fish they load into the ships and leave. illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our. identity. let me ask. you a current forest or an iraq. because. i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so well i didn't see. the killing so. good luck. to build a. mission to teach me. this is why you should. only. please. welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you that we're discussing iraq and afghanistan. all right gentle

felt a slice of it in vietnam it was a no i got it war destroys both sides the problem with a victor in a war is that he believes he's right and he believes he has the right to use violence because he's doing the right thing so that that's what happened we had we were given a gift in world war two you know we fought it but the soviet union basically wiped out the german war machine they took the brunt of the casualties twenty five million russians on us at three hundred some thousand four hundred thousand casualties nothing could burn so we had this tremendous advantage of what we did. if he had lived another three months i think would've kept that alliance we had with the with the with the soviets a lot because he did not want to become the british empire he. saw the problems with the brochure he did not believe in colonialism clooney was most to be eradicated. and it was not because truman. roosevelt's position took a pro british empire position right away winston churchill was one of his biggest allies convinced about the necessity to take on the soviets as well as the old hard li

central command, general tommy franks, very much a vietnam veteran, very much a product of his post-vietnam. this focus like a laser on how to overthrow the government. neither he nor his bosses, secretary of defense donald rumsfeld paid sufficient attention to the question. it was a massive intellectual failure. of course the consequences of the massive intellectual failure, the ironic outcome is that the army in iraq for those writing the vietnam war all over again equally unsuccessfully in my judgment. next question. >> hi. i have a bumper sticker on my car that says war is not the answer and i happen to be a big fan of your proposal to stop it. but of course the question is if war is not the answer, what is the answer? i am wondering if either of you were familiar with the working paper published by the american service committee and the friends committee on national it is a shame, both quaker organizations called shared security. i'm wondering if you are familiar with that paper in your thoughts on that. as we try to figure out what the answer is, where do you see the leadership? where

which is to take over vietnam. it is the only time in american history that a secretary of state had abandoned a major conference in the middle and the reason he did this was because he understood that he was isolated in the geneva conference is going to come to the conclusion that a part of vietnam had to be turned over to ho chi minh. foster dulles refused to accept this and he came home and he immediately launched a large-scale covert operation in south vietnam under the geneva agreement, as many of you know. it was partitioned to north vietnam and south vietnam and in 1956 there was an election that would become the leader of the country. so the dulles brothers decided to launch enough covert operations so that the election of 1956 would wind up electing someone that we liked. and we had her own candidate barry and ho chi minh would then be brushed aside. and as the election came close he will win probably 80% and as a result of this the dulles brothers decided that we are not holding this up. and so think of t

the madman nixon proposed that he would use nuclear weapons in vietnam he never came about because he was already bombing the hell out of the place most massive blaze of one who followed him in said that the united states threatened nuclear war thirteen times against. unbelievable and this brings me to reagan's obsession with the star wars fantasy and i think it was almost the most despicable part of the story was seen that there was actually a once in a lifetime chance for nuclear disarmament and he just started under it. because they were regulars at reykjavik reagan clung so fiercely to his fantasy about star wars. it was proposing that we give up all nuclear weapons and he said that as long as you keep star wars testing in the laboratory rather do outside testing for ten years we'll sign off on lemonade and nuclear weapons and reagan refused to do it shots and the others were so heartbroken because they saw how close we came but reagan would not let go of that and gorbachev was furious hurt i mean let's go right to now we know that this situation exists now we are back in that pos

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so, a play that worked well in vietnam. what else worked well for you that will influence what you do this year? >> we have done well in africa. we have invested in nigeria, kenya, and egypt. particularly after the regime change, we got more positive on egypt. you still see some value in northern africa. >> an interesting point. when other investors were taking money out, even rich people in that country were getting assets out as quickly as possible. how do you know when to go in and where to go and? >> we are not contrary and for the sake of being contrary and. we are actually looking at different trends. we are bottom up investors, so valuation is key to us. we have marginal safety in the stock that we are buying, focusing on businesses that are high cash flow. but at the same time we have a macro ability looking at the gold strands and the balance of things, the leverage, private and public. in some countries, even today, when anyone talks about the fragile five, we are seeing some positive trends. we are currently pull

if dick gregory was on a late night show he could talk to millions at one time about the vietnam war. when the smother s brothers sang , they had a much wider audience. i wonder if we can do that in a current world where we're broken up in tiny bits before we had mass media? >> i imagine you could say it's even easier these days. you don't even need to be on television. you can go right from your bedroom to the world through the internet. my sincere guess is that it's not getting harder or easier to do the work of political justice, social justice. i think its just it springs eternal. pete taught me you don't do it to win. you do it because the doing of it is so joyful and gives your life purpose. in doing so you'll meet all kinds of people you'll be lucky to know. you do so, so that maybe you give your children a head start on that very same fight. if you don't achieve the goal yourself . i think pete would have carried out more. >> i think she's right. there are a lot of different ways that we get our music out there. many of the people doing political music today aren't signed to b

my father was a vietnam veteran, i went to many gatherings. i would pick someone else who is politically savvy. >> if she said i want to have a body like jane fonda when i'm 70 zm everyone would say, absolutely. but when she added the politically savvy. >> 60,000 american troops that died. why are you sitting there with the north vietnamese with the helmet on your head, sitting there smiling and making these anti-war comments when you have pows, and tens of thousands of american troops that died. she said they're liars and hypocrites. >> she's very alienating to some vietnam vets. she started this movie the bachelor, and she got pushed back for portraying nancy reagan. she came out and said, i figured it would tweak the right, who cares. she's been quoted as calling american soldiers war criminals, she told the veterans who are upset about that rule to get a life. should the first lady be holding her up as a figure she admires? >> i think in the article, she represents a civil rights activist, and i think michelle obama is trying to say, liste

people just wanted to close the door on vietnam. well, i had a lot of heavy experiences inside my mind, and to bury it, i drank and i did drugs-- and to relieve the pain and the anguish and the anxiety i had building up inside me that no one wanted to know. at the uniformed services university of the health sciences in bethesda, maryland, dr. andy baum is studyg post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans. [dr. baum] we bring vietnam veterans and various control group subjects into our laboratory, and we ask them to watch a film which most people would consider stressful, but which combat veterans may find more stressful because it's a film of combat surgery. we measure their blood pressure and their heart rate before, while, and after they view the film to see how reactive they are to that kind of stressful, relevant stimulus. plse work rapidly. we ask them questions about how they feel, whether they are experiencing symptoms of somatic problems-- headaches, backaches, pains-- whether they're depressed or anxious, and whether there

king watched america's increasing involvement in a real war in vietnam drain resources away from the war on poverty. he was advised against saying anything about that because references to vietnam would break the public focus that reverend king commanded on civil rights and economic justice. but by 1967 dr. king found it impossible to continue to discuss justice in america without mentioning vietnam. >> it is estimated that we spend $322,000 for each enemy we kill in vietnam while we spend in the so-called war on poverty in america only about $53 for each person classified as poor. >> the promises of the great society have been shot down on the battlefield of vietnam, making the poor, white and negro, bear the heaviest burden both at the front and at home. >> it is impossible to imagine 20th century america without martin luther king jr. >> it is estimated that we spend $322,000 for each enemy we kill in vietnam while we spend in the so-called war on poverty in america only about $53 for each person classified as poor. >> the promises of the great society have been shot down on the b

vietnam's southern region. constantly to inject a task must be the trouble to the throne to my kids my choice and pencils and even small boats to be here at this moment with the suspicion location for us just seeing so many especially gentle flow where snow. this special day or two about death. then today so we can get pretty much the issue he also has still been difficult in the months of the antics of course it was so special something for now after the hop but the bca people we should find new deal with happiness wealth and thankfully the conditions under my kids and people go separate ways. each one carrying a teenager beat of the region's actual teens through to watch it let him get a special impression that it takes me six this two piece up and be seen. i need is faith in the center card into a qp we have launched their tree planting for a living here complain. this is the first history of weeks to start typical initiated last year the local people planted over six thousand trees covering an area over evi

the lessons of war that we need to learn probably at the lessons of our conflicts beginning in vietnam and going up to the present day. and they don't tell the story of the jury, heroism, ideals, triumphant. they tell is far murkier and more morally reduce turi. it is not as satisfying but it is far more relevant. so we need to tell a different historical turi and i think we can take away different lessons that are more relevant to the present moment. >> said i would like to jump off from the part of your question was asked, what can we tell the student to give them a different picture of war? i want to give everybody here and take away assignment, please because in researching for my vote, i visited schools in the boston area that had junior artiste e. in the classroom. and if a student in a boston school for at least those i've visited and rolled in junior rotc, which they might do at the age of 14 of the team, they will be excused and learn nothing about american history except what they are taught who are with all due respect to you, sir, retired colonel. you laugh, but i want to b

now because of vietnam and watergate, we -- who trusts congress? who trusts. >> nobody according to the polls. nobody does. nobody. >> who trusts journalism? who trusts the mainstream media. >> here is the question. is congress worse now, the caliber of individuals sitting in the senate and the house, are they collectively worse now than they were in 1971. >> well, i will tell you what the big difference is. >> we get a lower form of politician? >> whether we do or not, and this is where the consumer comes in. there is no compromise now. >> sell out? >> tantamount to sell out. crime against humanity. that is because today everybody is afraid that that consumer that you mentioned will call the talk radio station, will, you know, go on the web site. so they are afraid to compromise. they are afraid to be seen as sell outs. again, this contributes to the polarization and the anger. and the fact that the democracy of the media. now, knuckle heads who couldn't get a letter to the editor published years ago, now they go on the web, they write u mail and

the budget that was designed to lift people out of poverty shifted the war in vietnam. even the recent history we have a budget surplus, the $2 trillion expenditure in iraq we lost money and lives. we have other contempt for poor people and we bail out the banks and giving the insurance companies more customers and bail out the auto industry but what poorer are getting poorer and the mitdle class is sinking. we need to address a plan for urban reconstruction. >> congresswoman, what i really want is as people go through tonight remembering president johnson's speech 50 years ago, there ought not be given the misperception to americans that this has been a 50 year fight by big government. in fact, barely before president johnson got out of office we saw the war against poverty diverted and there's been a battle ever since just to try to salvage some of the war and the programs in the war on poverty. >> that's the point, reverend. we are now struggling to save what president johnson did. what he did was to build on the new deal, ah, a safety net program to make it more int

in vietnam. it just must be the center of our concern. >> gradually, the very premise behind the war on poverty, the notion that there's something wrong with the country that leaves behind millions of its citizens, started to seem impossibly alien. in the 1980s, johnson and shriver's historic effort had become an attack line for ronald reagan. >> some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty and poverty won. >> it's a line that conservatives are still using today as they seek further cuts to the social safety net. quick to note that the official poverty rate has only fallen four percentage points over half a century. >> we have the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty coming up next year but don't have much to show for it. >> isn't it time to declare it a failure? >> it's true there are over 10 million more people below the poverty line than there were 50 years ago, but that's because the war on poverty failed. it's because it didn't go far enough. in the decade of the war on p

having been a soldier if vietnam while all the arguments were going on in public about vietnam, getting shot at while people were arguing in the united states about people getting shot at in vietnam, i can tell you it has diminishing effect on those who are on the front lines. having said all that, one has to question whether or not it's a good time to do it. like i said, i don't think that bob gates had an opportunity to decide when it was going to get published. >> he's still responsible for when he actually writes the book and turns over the work product. you know, steve, it was interesting because he's actually said he thought it was pomp important to get this all out there while this conversation was still happening. i want to play some sound for you from this morning. he sort of -- i think he was a little bit surprised by the criticism that we've seen over the last week. he sort of kind of, i don't know, trying to have it two way, i guess, on afghanistan and president obama. i'm going to play this and get your reaction. >> i make very explicit in the book that i agreed with all of

johnson's estate made millions on the vietnam war, millions. she was shrewd when it came to investing. hard to say. we know, for example, that there was a $33 5 million contract begin to dredge the bay that did not need dredging, for example. no, i think the generals wanted the war. this is where oliver stone, i'm not related to and who i have agreements and disagreements with, but whom i have enormous respect for based on the talents and his quest for the tryout. we disagree on some things, but on this, he's fundment tally right. the generals wanted their war. the defense contractors wanted war, lyndon johnson gave them their war, but he was not above making a couple bucks on it himself. the man who owns the texas school book depository, the man whose company that malcolm wallace, the assassin went to work for, three months after johnson is president, they get a million million contradict for the war. they are now known as ltv. they get rewards for housing malcolm wallace after the assassination. wallace, by the way, dies mysteriously in 1971

and this includes how a western power would not succeed in vietnam. and a lot of this and it is still puzzling about just how wide we were on vietnam and how this faded over the years. and he was looking looking more towards the white house and decided he needed to be a hawkish type of diet with what actually was behind this. but as he read his speeches, it is quite striking. and the french were angry and a lot of europeans were angry as well. and this is like general financial assistance. in exchange programs and this is sort of the over arching theme. including how the administration was reacted and he sort of moved his critique of the eisenhower foreign policy to gain visibility within the democratic party and that some of you may know, a half-century debate as to how much of the book he actually wrote and what was written about it with ted sorensen and others. probably about 5000 had been written about profiles encouraged. and there was enough institutional self-confidence and national self-confidence that they could do a project like that. and wi

. >> that event, the vietnam war. garvin thomas is here with the story of a san jose woman and her decades long journey. >> this is technically a followup to a story i did four years ago. if that sounds like a long time, it's not, considering how long she's been looking for answers, ones that she just recently found. a single picture has the power we all know to tell the story of a moment in time. but put two together and you just might see the story of an entire lifetime, with these two, kim's lifetime. >> when i think about all the way from the beginning, it seems like, just eons ago. >> reporter: the first photo is of her and her relatives in saigon in 1975. not long before the city fell, and kim, without her mother, would be among the last to flee. she was adopted by a family in florida. her childhood years spent desperately not wanting to be different. but her hair, skin, her eyes made that job impossible. >> it was really hard on me growing up, because i just dreaded talking about where i was born. >> reporter:

then vietnam ate up a lot of the money. then there was some corruption and some problems. then the backlash set in. then reagan came along. there's been no 50 year war on poverty. >> when you have something, you don't recognize how important it is. when you're denied it. like right to choice. then it's a big issue. social security is the greatest anti-poverty program this

were rescued in the fall of saigon at the end of the vietnam war. miguel marquez is over at the sundance film festival. what a great assignment you have. you spoke to rory kennedy who made the film. what struck you the most about this story? >> it is an amazing story. i should note for the record, we are in the cnn films lounge. this is the hottest ticket in town. famous people like this. all powerful. people like that in the cnn films lounge. rory kennedy has been here times with films. this film has unbelievable access to video and footage of the escape from vietnam in the final days. the last 24 hours of it is like a countdown and a thriller and they talked about the film a short time ago. >> this story, the story i told hasn't been told before which is a remarkable thing given it was the final days of the vietnam war. we left the country very quickly. because of that, the u.s. policy was to just get the americans out and to leave all the vietnamese behind who helped us and worked with us and collaborated with us. our story is about the americans