Word: vietnam
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...While this rally supported the divestiture movement, there was no counter rally at the time opposing their demands. Convisser said the first visible protests on the issue began in the mid seventies after the Vietnam War came...
...grips the world into which we graduate, I believe it fitting to start at another time—1969—a time as unknown to us graduates as the uncharted waters beyond our Commencement. That year, change was in the air, Nixon was in the White House, and Vietnam was on everyone’s mind...
...photograph of an American helicopter evacuation is as indelible an image as any we have of the Vietnam War. Then a photographer for United Press International, Hugh Van Es, 67, snapped the iconic picture from a balcony at the Peninsula Hotel in Saigon. The photo netted him a Pulitzer Prize nomination--and a $150 bonus...
...most influential. One of the pieces he is most proud of was his front page New York Times editorial coverage of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising. He also wrote speeches for Senator Frank Church of Idaho, one of the first senators to speak up against the war in Vietnam...
...least speck of brains realized how stupid it was.”Harvard’s involvement with the Roosevelt administration’s war effort had created a precedent for government involvement on campus, and given that the country had not yet experienced the disillusionment induced by the Vietnam War, most students were willing to trust the government to an extent not seen today and less willing to speak out, said Charles C. Ashley ’59.When a student council committee issued a scathing report criticizing the loyalty oaths, the council disbanded the committee and formed...