Lolled itself into history with names of pride and shame. Words for all time and words of passing fancy. The decade created a new vocabulary in the magnificent and the minuscule. Kennedy,nis kurtz, pope john, john glenn, graham, the beatles, peace corps, clay, leiber, pope paul, the war, nson, warhol, strikes and streisand, dope, black power, goldwater, hippie, dayan, woodstock, the pill, james bond, tiny tim, king, hair, graham, bobby, wallace, golda meir, ecology, the supremes, apollo, psychedelic, wyeth, joe namath, malcolm x, armstrong, nixon, indira gandhi, demonstrations, lem. But no name, no single word repeated itself as often on the pages of the 1960s, and with so much controversy, as the name vietnam. It was a strange mixture of peace and war, a better filled nowhere and everywhere. Life during the day and death during the night. An ally when moment and gone the next. A jungle with barbed wire. Those who wanted to find a war might have to hunt for it. Those who did not want t
Corps, clay, pope paul, the wall, kosygin, johnson, warhol, streisand, dope, black power, goldwater, hippie, dayan, woodstock, the pill, james bond, tiny tim king, hair, graham, bobby, wallace, golda meir, ecology, the supremes, apollo, psychedelic, wyeth, joe namath, malcolm x, armstrong, nixon, indira gandhi, demonstrations, lem. But no name, no single word repeated itself as often on the pages of the 1960s, and with so much controversy, as the name vietnam. Ofit was a strange mixture peace and war. An ally at one moment, an enemy the next. A lush jungle with the rest of barbed wire. It was always this. Those who wanted to find the war may have to hunt for it. Those who did not, they might have become the hunted. The question was, who was the hunter in vietnam, and who was the hunted . Who would be the aggressor and the defender . And there was a larger search for the definition of the word peace. Peace mean only the absence of work . Ar . This is a story in two parts. And demonstrat
Weve been pondering what Democratic Practice could and should look like in the United States, and then very much so and very pertinent to what were going to do today, what role the United States should play internationally. What role should the United States play in a world that was fast changing in the 1960s . So weve gotten to the point in this class where weve reached a point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the United States in vietnam. And the reasons have been fairly compellingly laid out by johnson between 1964 and 1965. With the gulf of tonkin resolution in 1964, the president made his case that there was aggression coming from North Vietnam pointed at the south, and pointed at the United States as well in the attack on u. S. Ships in International Waters on that gulf of tonkin. And remember it is really important to understand when this resolution was brought before congress, every Single Member of the house of re
Rafik hariri and the 1st terrorism trial by an international court. And we take a look at the plight of the people in gaza as only power plant shuts down. Welcome to the program alis president Ibrahim Hooper kjetil has resigned after being detained by soldiers in a coup he appeared on state television saying that he had no choice but to step down as he didnt want any bloodshed the west african blog echo ours has closed its borders with mali suspended financial flows and called for sanctions charlotte dallas reports. The bamako residence of president Abraham Boubacar Kasia secure and heavily guarded but instead of keeping people out the soldiers were keeping him in he and Prime Minister boosts to say we detained here on chew. Day confusion prevailed today with no explanation by the military or government until president keisha appeared on state television announcing his resignation. I want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power and thats why i would like to think a 1000000 people fo
Class on the 1960s Vietnam Antiwar Movement and how it expands the nations democratic process. This was recorded in 2010 at Temple University in philadelphia. Professor farber now teaches at the university of kansas. So, weve been talking these last few weeks out loud about a few core issues that have, in many ways have given thematic intensity to the 1960s era. Weve been trying to think about the meaning and reality of equality in the United States in the 60s era. Weve been pondering what Democratic Practice could and should look like in the United States, and then very pertinent to what well do today, what role the United States should play internationally. What role should the United States play in a world that was fast changing in the 1960s. So weve gotten to the point in this class where weve reached a point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the United States in vietnam. And the reasons have been fairly compellingly la