Featuring documents and artifacts organized into 12 episodes of the war that was raging in Southeast Asia 50 years ago. Up next, on american artifacts, an interview with the archivist of the United States, followed by a tour of the exhibit with curator alice camps. This is just under half an hour. David ferrell, archivist of the United States. What was the reason for the vietnam exhibit . Its a commemoration of the anniversary of the war itself. The national archive, the Record Keeper of the country commemorates high point, low points in our history with major exhibits and this one was particularly important to me since im a vietnam vet, and i wanted to make sure that a war that is still so controversial and we had an opportunity to tell the story from the records. Had the archives ever had the vietnam exhibit before on the expose on vietnam in its past . No. I think its safe to say that in the past the subject was avoided as has been in most museums and institutions across the country
In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Public Television and brought you today by your catalog by your stable by your cable or satellite provider. As amembering to Vietnam National archives exhibit featuring the documents and artifacts organized into 12 episodes raging in Southeast Asia 50 years ago. Up next, american artifacts, an interview with the archivist of the United States followed by a tour with curator alice kamps. This is just under half an hour. , what was thest reason for the vietnam exhibit . The commemoration of the anniversary of the war it self and National Archives, the keeper of the country, commemorates high points, low points in our history with major exhibits. This one was particularly important to me since i am a vietnam vet and i want to remember a war that is deal so controversial dishes that is still so controversial, we have rent that is still so controversial, we have records. Have there ever been in expose before . It is safe to say that
The commemoration of the anniversary of the war it self and National Archives, the keeper of the country, commemorates high points, low points in our history with major exhibits. This one was particularly important to me since i am a vietnam vet and i want to remember a war that is still so controversial, we have records. Have there ever been an expose before . No, it is safe to say that in the past the subject was avoided as it has been in most museums and missions across the country. It is recently that theres a level of comfort in telling stories. Do you think that experience of the archives being avoided is reflective of how vietnam over the 50 years has been received . It is a subject that no one talked about. Like it never happened. It is not often covered in a k12 history. History stops and world war ii and touches on korea but usually never gets to it. Your exhibit, is the archives exhibit, breaks it down into a 12 chapter more episodes. Tell as of the reasoning and what you ho
This one was particularly important to me since i am a vietnam vet and i want to war that is still so controversial, that we have the opportunity to tell the story from the records. Has there ever been any sort of expose on the vietnam war before in the past . No, it is safe to say that in the past the subject was avoided as it has been in most museums and museums across the country. It is just recently that theres a level of comfort in telling those stories. Do you think that experience of the archives being avoided is reflective of how vietnam over the 50 years has been received . It is a subject that no one talked about. It is as if it never happened. It is not often covered in a k12 history class. Stop at world war ii and touch on korea but usually never gets to it. Your exhibit, is the archives exhibit, breaks it down into a 12 chapter more episodes. Tell us the reasoning and what you hope people will learn as they go through the different stages. It is a big story that goes to th
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