Been tryinge have to get you here for six years. [laughter] such an only is this important and tragic part of the story, but this has been translated into all of that domestic agenda, so now we are in the process of developing a series on the johnson presidency. [applause] we are delighted with that and with seeing you again. You two are americas most preeminent storytellers. War,ave taken on the civil you have taken on the roosevelts, you have taken on jazz, why vietnam . We were focused on the Second World War and we realized that vietnam had to be put there, that it would form a trilogy of films that we would complete, first with the civil war and then with the second vietnam, and then with arguably the three most important wars after the american resolution american revolution. From anr ii came entirely American Point of view, and this was going to be like the civil war from the top down up. You are going to be a lot of people, vietnamese, south vietnamese, north vietnamese, americ
Audience members watched clips of the documentary. We were unable to show them due to licensing restrictions. This is about 40 minutes. Please welcome to the stage mr. Mark updegrove, documentary filmmakers and producers of the vietnam war, mr. Ken burns and miss lynn novick. [applause] mark welcome. Ken thank you. Mark ken, we have been trying to get you here for six years. [laughter] ken not only is this such an important and tragic part of the story, but this has been domestic agenda, so now we are in the process of developing a series on the johnson presidency. [applause] mark we are delighted with that and look forward to seeing you again. As david mentioned in his introduction, you two are americas most preeminent storytellers. You have taken on the civil war, you have taken on the roosevelts, you have taken on baseball and jazz, why vietnam . Ken we were focused on the Second World War and we realized that vietnam had to be put there, that it would form a trilogy of films that w