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Edited on Mon May-29-06 08:05 AM by Godlesscommieprevert
I saw it last year and found it very impressive and thought-provoking.
Here's the blurb off my local PBS station's web-site:
Based on the book "They Marched into Sunlight" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, Two Days in October tells the story of several turbulent days in October 1967. In Vietnam, a US battalion unwittingly marched into a Viet Cong trap; 64 out of 142 men were killed. The ambush prompted some in power to doubt whether the war could be won. Half a world away, students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison protested the presence on campus of recruiters from Dow Chemical, the maker of napalm. The demonstration spiraled out of control, marking the first time that a student protest had turned violent.
Narrated by the people who took part in the events — American soldiers, Viet Cong fighters, relatives of those killed in battle, protesting students, police officers, university administrators — the program offers a window onto a moment that divided a nation and a war that continues to haunt us.
American Experience: Two Days in October won a George Foster Peabody Award in 2006.
It's amazing to me that the cops who were involved in quelling the student protest still hate them for protesting the war - it's like their minds were closed in the 60s and were never allowed to open again. There are many people like that out there still, unfortunately.
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