Reporting Vietnam, Part 1

by Library of America

• ISBN13: 9781883011581
• ISBN10: 1883011582
• 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

TIME
Death at Intermission Time First U.S. Advisers Killed in South Vietnam: July 1959	1	(2)
STANLEY KARNOW
Diem Defeats His Own Best Troops Challenges to Diem: January 1961	3	(15)
MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Paddy War Guerrilla War in the Mekong Delta: December 1961	18	(8)
HOMER BIGART
A "Very Real War" in Vietnam--and the Deep U.S. Commitment Increasing American Involvement: February 1962	26	(7)
MALCOLM W. BROWNE
"The Enemy Had Left a Display for Us" Massacre in the Ca Mau Peninsula: February 1962	33	(14)
BERNARD B. FALL
Master of the Red Jab Interview with Ho Chi Minh: July 1962	47	(11)
HOMER BIGART
Vietnam Victory Remote Despite U.S. Aid to Diem A Skeptical Assessment: July 1962	58	(10)
NEIL SHEEHAN
Vietnamese Ignored U.S. Battle Order Battle of Ap Bac: January 1963	68	(3)
DAVID HALBERSTAM
"An Endless, Relentless War" Helicopter Assault in the Ca Mau Peninsula: April 1963	71	(8)
MALCOLM W. BROWNE
"He Was Sitting in the Center of a Column of Flame" Suicide in Saigon: June 1963	79	(7)
MARGUERITE HIGGINS
The Diem Government, Pro and Con Politics in Saigon: August 1963	86	(5)
JOSEPH ALSOP
In the Gia Long Palace Nhu and Diem: September 1963	91	(3)
STANLEY KARNOW
The Fall of the House of Ngo Dinh Overthrow of Diem: November 1963	94	(14)
DAVID HALBERSTAM
"They Can Win a War If Someone Shows Them How" Profile of John Paul Vann: 1962-1964	108	(16)
U.S. NEWS
WORLD REPORT
"We Are Losing, Morale Is Bad...If They'd Give Us Good Planes..." A Pilot's Letters Home: November 1963-March 1964	124	(10)
BEVERLY DEEPE
Christmas Eve Bomb in Saigon "The pink cloud became black": December 1963	134	(4)
RUSSELL BAKER
Befuddled in Asia Confusion Over Policy: March 1965	138	(2)
JOHN FLYNN
Marines Get Flowers for a Tough Mission First Combat Troops Land: March 1965	140	(2)
ROGER RAPOPORT
Protest, Learning, Heckling Spark Viet Rally First Campus "Teach-In": March 1965	142	(3)
MEG GREENFIELD
After the Washington Teach-in Controversy Over the War Intensifies: May 1965	145	(8)
DON MOSER
Eight Dedicated Men Marked for Death Struggle for Loc Dien: Summer 1965	153	(22)
BERNARD B. FALL
Vietnam Blitz: A Report on the Impersonal War American Buildup: September 1965	175	(12)
WILLIAM TUOHY
A Big "Dirty Little War" Terror and Counter-terror: Autumn 1965	187	(11)
TOM WOLFE
from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Ken Kesey Addresses an Anti-War Rally: October 1965	198	(10)
SPECIALIST 4/C JACK P. SMITH
Death in the Ia Drang Valley "Men All Around Me Were Screaming": November 1965	208	(15)
SUSAN SHEEHAN
A Viet Cong A Defector Tells His Story: 1965	223	(13)
McCANDLISH PHILLIPS
Two Hilltops in a Marine's Life Letters Home: April 1965-February 1966	236	(6)
HENRY F. GRAFF
Teach-In on Vietnam By... The President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State The Administration Defends Its Policies: February 1966	242	(17)
AFRO-AMERICAN
No Room in the Cemetery A Soldier's Burial: May 1966	259	(3)
WARD S. JUST
Reconnaissance Combat in the Central Highlands: June 1966	262	(19)
FRANK HARVEY
"Only You Can Prevent Forests" Spraying Defoliants: July 1966	281	(6)
MARTHA GELLHORN
"Suffer the Little Children" Civilian Casualties in South Vietnam: August-September 1966	287	(11)
NEIL SHEEHAN
Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk Veteran Reporter Reassesses the War: October 1966	298	(18)
FRANCES FITZGERALD
"The Long Fear" Politics in the Mekong Delta: 1966	316	(9)
HARRISON E. SALISBURY
U.S. Raids Better 2 Towns; Supply Route Is Little Hurt The Bombing of North Vietnam: December 1966	325	(6)
BERNARD B. FALL
"Unrepentant, Unyielding": An Interview with Viet Cong Prisoners U.S. Offensive in the Iron Triangle: January 1967	331	(13)
JONATHAN RANDAL
U.S. Marines Seize 3d Hill in Vietnam After 12-Day Push Khe Sanh Hill Fights: May 1967	344	(4)
WARD S. JUST
Saigon and Other Syndromes A Reporter Looks Back: December 1965-May 1967	348	(23)
DON MOSER
The Vietcong Cadre of Terror War in Saigon: June 1965-July 1967	371	(15)
JONATHAN SCHELL
from The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin Southern I Corps: August 1967	386	(98)
RICHARD HARWOOD
The War Just Doesn't Add Up Conflicting Views: September 1967	484	(6)
MICHAEL J. ARLEN
A Day in the Life A TV Crew at Con Thien: September 1967	490	(16)
NORMAN MAILER
from The Armies of the Night The March on the Pentagon: October 1967	506	(16)
PETER ARNETT
Hill 875 Battle of Dak To: November 1967	522	(3)
TOM WOLFE
The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie Air War Over North Vietnam: December 1967	525	(32)
CHARLES MOHR
U.S. Aide in Embassy Villa Kills Guerrilla with Pistol The Tet Offensive: January 1968	557	(3)
DON OBERDORFER
from Tet! The Viet Cong in Hue: January-February 1968	560	(12)
LEE LESCAZE
A Third of Mytho Destroyed in Delta Fighting The Tet Offensive: February 1968	572	(4)
JOHN T. WHEELER
Life in the V Ring Khe Sanh Under Siege: February 1968	576	(5)
WALTER CRONKITE
"We Are Mired in Stalemate..." Aftermath of Tet: February 1968	581	(2)
DON OBERDORFER
"An Ending of His Own" Lyndon Johnson Changes Course: March 1968	583	(15)
MARY McCARTHY
Hanoi--March 1968 An American in North Vietnam: March-April 1968	598	(17)
THOMAS A. JOHNSON
The U.S. Negro in Vietnam Black Servicemen and the War: 1968	615	(13)
NORMAN MAILER
from The Siege of Chicago The Democratic Convention: August 1968	628	(15)
STEVE LERNER
A Visit to Chicago: Blood, Sweat, & Tears The Democratic Convention: August 1968	643	(10)
JOE McGINNISS
from The Selling of the President 1968 The Nixon Campaign and Vietnam: September 1968	653	(11)
KEVIN BUCKLEY
A Small Contribution Firefight Near Loc Ninh: October 1968	664	(3)
ZALIN GRANT
"We Lived for a Time Like Dogs" American POWs in a Jungle Camp: July 1968-January 1969	667	(21)
JEFFREY BLANKFORT
Our Town: The War Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio A Small Town Mourns Its Dead: Spring 1969	688	(10)
DAVID HOFFMAN
Hamburger Hill: The Army's Rationale Battle in the A Shau Valley: May 1969	698	(6)
WALLACE TERRY
Black Power in Viet Nam Racial Tensions in the Military: September 1969	704	(5)
DANIEL LANG
Casualties of War An Atrocity and Its Aftermath: November 1966-October 1969	709	(62)
Maps	771	(4)
Chronology, 1940-1995	775	(29)
Biographical Notes	804	(13)
Note on the Texts	817	(5)
Notes	822	(14)
Glossary	836	(5)
Index	841