The Media:
Vietnam War
"Television brought the brutality of war
into the comfort of the living room.
Vietnam was lost in the living rooms
of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
--Marshall McLuhan, 1975
AFVN
American Forces Vietnam Network (military radio and television) provided music, news and entertainment to the American Fighting Man and Woman during the Vietnam War from the Delta to the DMZ. This is a great site!
Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side
An intense collection of images, many never seen before, from the cameras of North Vietnamese photographers. Each included photographer has a chapter highlighting his personal stories and captivating pictures.
The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story
by John Laurence
This is the true story of a young American reporter who went to Vietnam with an open mind and an innocent heart and was plunged into a world of cruel beauty and savage violence. His experiences in the war forced him to question all his assumptions about his country, the nation's leaders and his own sanity.
Douglas Valentine, Author
Valentine's book is "TDY," a based on fact story about a young Air Force photojournalist who in 1967 volunteers for a safe temporary duty mission in the Philippines. He soon finds himself in Laos photographing CIA agents and opium bandits, and involved in a life and death struggle for survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Press Conference, April 7, 1954
The Row of Dominoes explanation.
Inside Television's First War: A Saigon Journal
by Ronald Steinman
"Steinman went to Saigon as NBC news bureau chief in April 1966 before the significance of the Vietnam War was clearly evident. It was the first war to be reported by television at a time when there was less government -- and network -- interference in war reporting. It was also a time before technology enabled the fast and constant relay of images and news from around the world. Steinman recalls the struggles he and his staff of young, multinational correspondents faced: learning how to report a war from the front lines, how to get past the canned news offered by the government, and how to get undeveloped film shipped out of Saigon. He recalls the hardships of living in a war-torn nation and the friendships that helped advance news gathering and personal survival. Steinman also recalls his courtship of a young Vietnamese coworker whom he later married. This is an intense look behind the scenes at how television reported on the growing conflict in Vietnam and how those images influenced American public opinion of the war." --Booklist
Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television
by Michael Anderegg
The Vietnam War has been depicted by every available medium, each presenting a message, an agenda, of what the filmmakers and producers choose to project about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. This collection of essays, most of which are previously unpublished, analyzes the themes, modes, and stylistic strategies seen in a broad range of films and television programs.
President Kennedy's News Conference, February 7, 1962
Response to a question on American involvement in South Vietnam.
Lies, Deceit and Hypocrisy
"A study of the journalism in the early part of the Vietnam War, 1962-63.
The Saigon correspondents reported that the South Vietnamese and their American advisers were losing the war against the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies. The reports the correspondents sent home were not very popular in the Pentagon and the Saigon establishment, but it was a job that had to be done to serve the truth."
The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam
by Daniel Ford
A war correspondent's journal, from the Mekong Delta to the Central Highlands, including the patrol that inspired the novel "Incident at Muc Wa" and the Burt Lancaster film "Go Tell the Spartans."
Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation
Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
by B.G. Burkett, Glenna Whitley
"A tough, courageous book, overwhelmingly documenting the fraud that has been so destructive to the true legacy of those who fought in Vietnam. Its central thesis should make American mainstream media cringe in shame from their decades of negligence and collusion in this defamation of those who served with honor." --James Webb, author of "Fields of Fire," and former Secretary of the Navy.
Under Fire: Images from Vietnam
Reveals the extraordinary talent, grace and courage of the young photographers who risked their lives to document the most photographed war of the 20th century.
Women War Correspondents in the Vietnam War
by Virginia Elwood-Akers
More than 75 women served as war correspondents in the Vietnam War, covering every aspect of the war from human interest to combat. They worked for major news media and won major journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. Several women reporters were wounded in combat, three were taken prisoner, and two were killed.
Vietnam War Screenplays
VietnamWar.net
Download Movies at Amazon 
Memorable Quotations Store at Amazon
VietnamWar.net
Vietnam War Destinations, Part 1
Vietnam War Destinations, Part 2
Vietnam War Destinations, Part 3
Vietnam War Destinations, Part 4
The Literary Hootch, Part 1
The Literary Hootch, Part 2
The Literary Hootch, Part 3
Vietnam War History, Part 1
Vietnam War History, Part 2
Vietnam War History, Part 3
Vietnam War History, Part 4
Vietnam War Research Material, Part 1
Vietnam War Research Material, Part 2
Vietnam War Research Material, Part 3
Vietnam War Research Material, Part 4
Vietnam War Humor
The Media
Vietnam War Quiz
Vietnam War Quotations
Allies
Anti-War
Political and Government Figures
Trips to Vietnam
The Vietnamese
Women
Vietnam War Films
Vietnam War Fiction
Women Writers
Vietnam War Short Stories
Military Leaders
Vietnam War Documentaries
Memorials
Organizations
Vietnam War Poetry
The Wall
African-American Soldiers
Vietnam War Books, Part 1
Vietnam War Books, Part 2
World War II Films (Part 1)
World War II Films (Part 2)
