Reporting Vietnam

by Library of America

• ISBN13: 9781883011598
• ISBN10: 1883011590
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Library of America

Summary

Gathers original newspaper and magazine articles to capture the immediacy of events as they happened during the course of the war

Table of Contents

PETER R. KANN
A Long, Leisurely Drive Through Mekong Delta Tells Much of the War Pacification and Vietnamization: November 1969	1	(12)
SEYMOUR M. HERSH
The My Lai Massacre An Atrocity Is Uncovered: November 1969	13	(15)
FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY
The Moratorium and the New Mobe The Anti-War Movement: November 1969	28	(22)
T.D. ALLMAN
Massacre at Takeo Cambodia: April 1970	50	(7)
JAMES A. MICHENER
from kent State: What Happened and Why kent, Ohio: May 1970	57	(28)
MIKE KINSLEY
"I think we have a very unhappy colleague-on-leave tonight" Kissinger and Harvard: May 1970	85	(11)
DON OBERDORFER
Dawn at Memorial: Nixon, Youths Talk Washington: May 1970	96	(3)
FRED J. COOK
Hard-Hats: The Rampaging Patriots Violence in New York City: May 1970	99	(19)
STEWART ALSOP
The American Class System Fairness and the Draft: 1970	118	(4)
PETER R. KANN
Vietnamese Alienate Cambodians in Fight Against Mutual Enemy War in Cambodia: July 1970	122	(7)
JAMES STERBA
Scraps of Paper from Viernam A Reporter's Collage: 1969-1970	129	(24)
JOHN SAAR
You Can't Just Hand Out Orders An Army of Reluctant Draftees: October 1970	153	(8)
DORIS KEARNS
from Who Was Lyndon Baines Johnson? LBJ Remembers Vietnam: 1970	161	(20)
JOHN SAAR
A Frantic Night on the Edge of Laos An Accidental Bombing: Feburuary 1971	181	(5)
GLORIA EMERSON
At Border Crossing Into Laos the Little of Troops and History The Invasion of Laos: February 1971	186	(4)
JOHN E. WOODRUFF
The Meo of Laos The Hmong: February 1971	190	(14)
GLORIA EMERSON
Copters Return from Laos with the Dead "A small despairing scene": February 1971	204	(3)
GLORIA EMERSON
Spirit of Saigon's Army Shaken in Laos "They all became dust": March 1971	207	(5)
KARL FLEMING
The Homecoming of Chris Mead A Veteran Returns: March 1971	212	(5)
DONALD KIRK
Who Wants To Be the Last American Killed in Vietnam? Troop Withdrawals and Morale: August 1971	217	(18)
TOM BUCKLEY
Portrait of an Aging Despot A Visit with General Loan: 1971	235	(12)
GLORIA EMERSON
We Are All "Bui Doi" A Reporter's Life: February 1970-February 1972	247	(17)
ZALIN GRANT
"Don't Sell Your Soul" Dissension Among POWs: April 1971-April 1972	264	(17)
ROBERT SHAPLEN
We Have Always Survived Life in Saigon: Spring 1972	281	(54)
JOHN SAAR
Report from the Inferno The North Vietnamese Offensive: April 1972	335	(7)
SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG
The South Vietnamese Retreat Quang Tri Is Abandoned: May 1972	342	(8)
RUDOLPH RAUCH
A Record of Sheer Wndurance Battle of An Loc: June 1972	350	(3)
PETER BRAESTRUP
The South Vietnamese Army Commanders and Soldiers: July 1972	353	(16)
JOSEPH KRAFT
Letter from Hanoi "We have been fighting eleven centuries": July 1972
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
from Fear and Loathing on the Compaign Trail 72 Protests at the Republican Convention, Miami: August 1972	384	(10)
SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG
The Saigon Follies, or, Trying to Head Them Off at Credibility Gap The Military and the Press: 1972	394	(14)
FOX BUTTERFIELD
Who Was This Enemy? Writings by North Vietnamese Soldiers: 1973	408	(12)
FLORA LEWIS
Vietnam Peace Pacts Signed; America's Longest War Halts The Paris Accords: January 1973	420	(5)
ARNOLD R. ISAACS
War Lingers in Hamlets as Cease-Fire Hour Passes After the Cease-Fire: January 1973	425	(4)
H.D.S. GREENWAY
A Night with the Vietcong Visit to a PRG Zone: March 1973	429	(5)
JOHN S. McCAIN III
How the POW's Fought Back A Navy Pilot in North Vietnam: October 1967-March 1973	434	(30)
H.D.S. GREENWAY
Last GIs Leave South Vietnam "Our mission has been accomplished": March 1973	464	(6)
SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG
Bomb Error Leaves Havoc in Neak Luong War in Cambodia: August 1973	470	(4)
PHILIP A. McCOMBS
Scars of Delta Savagery War in South Vietnam: March 1974	474	(5)
WILLIAM GREIDER
Viet Vets: A Sad Reminder "The old anger, the old pain": March 1974	479	(5)
DONALD KIRK
"I Watched them saw him 3 days" A Khmer Range Execution: July 1974	484	(2)
SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG
In a Besieged Cambodian City Suffering in Neak Luong: January 1975	486	(3)
BERNARD WEINRAUB
A Highlands Mother Escapes, but Pays a Terrible Toll The Fall of Ban Mc Thuot: March 1975	489	(3)
PAUL VOGLE
A Flight Into Hell The Fall of Danang: March 1975	492	(4)
LE KIM DINH
For Those Who Flee, Life Is "Hell on Earth" Refuges at Cam Ranh Bay: April 1975	496	(3)
PHILIP CAPUTO
The Battle of Xuan Loc "Pulverized stone and charred timbers": April 1975	499	(5)
SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG
The Fall of Phnom Penh Cambodia: April--May 1975	504	(23)
PHILIP CAPUTO
"Running Again--the Last Retreat" Refuges on "the street without joy": April 1975	527	(4)
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We Clawed for Our Lives! A Reporter Flees Saigon: April 1975	531	(6)
BOB TAMARKIN
Diary of S. Viet's Last Hours The Evacuation Ends: April 1975	537	(9)
GEORGE ESPER
Communists Enter Saigon "Then we drove into saigon": April 1975	546	(3)
PETER ARNETT
U.S. Embassy Looted "Documents floated about": April 1975	549	(2)
MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Tenderness, Hatred and Grief Mark Saigon's Last Days "Vietnams's black fate": May 1975	551	(4)
MICHEAL HERR
Dispatches A Correspondent's Memoir: 1967-1975	555	(212)
Maps	767	(4)
Chronology. 1940-1995	771	(29)
Biographical Notes	800	(11)
Note on the Texts	811	(6)
Notes	817	(16)
Glossary	833	(6)
Index	839