Did anyone watch last night's episode of The Vietnam War on PBS?

[kentuck]

It showed the little girl that was running naked from the napalm. And the protests. And the VVAW, with John Kerry speaking before the Senate, and tossing their medals over the fence that had been put up in front of the White House, and the deceitful lies and actions of Richard Nixon before Watergate.

It was one of the most interesting for me.

[raccoon]

1. If that's Wednesday nights episode I'll watch it later today. Into

[dalton99a]

2. The Nixon and Kissinger conversations were illuminating

[kentuck]

4. The Jane Fonda footage was very interesting also.

Nixon was a lot like Donald Trump, in many ways.

[mopinko]

9. yes. an insight i had never heard.

lots of people spoke out, but she was the only one that they had fantasized about. i always wondered why it was so personal.

[kentuck]

11. Yeah, I questioned that rationale.

Not everyone had seen Barbarella.

I think she opened herself up to ridicule and criticism when she sat behind the anti-aircraft guns...

[mopinko]

13. i dunno. that was way before porn was everywhere.

i am betting most guys in that age range had seen it more than once.

[kentuck]

14. I confess.

I watched it. But it didn't follow me to Vietnam.

[longship]

3. Both my local PBS stations are presenting it twice.

Back to back. So I am viewing each episode twice.

It's an amazing production.

R&K

[Va Lefty]

5. I've been watching online at the PBS website. Only up to Tet

Excellent series!

[Fix The Stupid]

6. So many purely evil people. Nixon should have been shot.

That episode was mind boggling.

Why isn't John Kerry's speech being blasted 24/7 on every radio, TV station?

How many people even knew he was part of VVAW and made that incredible speech?

Again, that was an incredible episode.

Nixon, kissinger, the whole lot - should have been executed by firing squad.

[SharonClark]

8. Fix the stupid starts at home.

Everyone who was in the US during the Kerry campaign heard his speech repeatedly because it was used by the right-wing to belittle him. That speech was incredible but there was enough hearsay in it to make people question the veracity of what he said. Too bad, because he would have made a fine president.

[Fix The Stupid]

15. Yeah, they focused on the atrocities he had the courage to bring to light...

Like he was wrong or unpatriotic to bring it up...

So sad.

[kentuck]

16. A lot of the stories were ones he had heard about..

but not experienced first-hand.

I think most of them happened at one time or another, if not widespread.

[Trust Buster]

7. Yes, the iconic picture of the Vietnamese girl running naked with napalm burns is well known.

What the documentary failed to show is a taped conversation between Nixon and Kissinger in the Oval Office in the summer of 1970. They both agreed at that time that the war was lost but could not withdraw troops until after the 1972 elections. Thousands of American servicemen died in the interim. I was disappointed that Burns chose to exclude that particular damning evidence.

[mopinko]

10. that was in there.

lots of taped conversations between the 2. admitted they we doing something wrong, even, but tricky dick said "but i dont care"

[Trust Buster]

17. I heard that from a friend. I must have been walking the dog at that point. Thanks.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. Her name is Phan Thị Kim Phc and she's now a Canadian citizen. She started up a private

charitable org that helps children recover from the psychological trauma of being in a war zone.