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Surprisingly, the idea for the series was conceived in 1977 when General William Westmoreland suggested that Boston-affiliated WGBH depict the Vietnam story from a military perspective. "The Westmoreland meeting got us thinking. In the end, we decided to develop a series encompassing all points of view," one producer recalls. Organizing the ambitious project came with risks as the producers began researching and structuring a vast and complicated subject without knowing how the public would react. Even though most corporations refused to fund the controversial topic, with help from ABC (which also provided all their archive material from news reels...
...intelligence agents and modeled Viet Nam's 1945 declaration of independence on America's. These facts could lead to a romantic string of what-ifs; indeed, some former U.S. diplomats contend on-camera that Ho might have become a U.S. ally. But the documentary is careful to depict Ho's lifelong commitment to Communism and his close ties with the Soviet Union and China...
...fourth and fifth hours depict President Lyndon Johnson as a tragic figure, torn between desire for peace and belief that the U.S. owed its South Vietnamese ally a debt of loyalty. The sixth hour describes the North Vietnamese, both as they viewed themselves and as they were seen by American prisoners of war, whom they abused and tortured. Subsequent shows chronicle the attempt to "Vietnamize" the conflict by withdrawing U.S. troops, the simultaneous expansion of the war to Cambodia and Laos, North Viet Nam's public relations triumph despite the military failure of its 1968 Tet offensive, the protracted...
Then fall registration season bring increased shoplifting, Argeros said, and students waiting in September's long line may have noticed a new abundance of posters warning them not to steal. The posters depict a young woman in a jail cell and state that the Coop prosecutes shoplifters...
...Zelig encompasses more than just one man's extended analysis session. In this film, Allen puts America on the couch. Unlike Annie Hall, or Manhattan, Zelig doesn't depict the main character's perception of the world, but vice versa. It is not even really a movie, but instead a fictional documentary: a fabricated composite of newsreels, newspaper article collages, and interviews today with people who knew him then, as well as with current experts on the subject (Allen brings together an impressive array of intellectual heavyweights to mock themselves, including John Morton Blumlisted as authoring "Interpreting Zelig"--and Susan...