Dissent . It examines resistance to the war, with footage of demonstrations, interviews, and portions of a press conference by lyndon johnson. They raise their voices. They march against the government. Definessenters themselves with this kind of protest activity. Some go farther, burning Selective Service jobs and burning the american flag. Hundreds of protesters are sometimes arrested. Which activities fall in the bonds of lawful dissent and which go beyond the rabbits go beyond the limits and the, lawless or rebellious . The wide world of people and events. This week, the vietnam war how much dissent . Here with that story, our abc correspondent. John hardly a day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. Hardly a day passes when those who support the war wonder how much dissent is too much . Those who oppose it asked themselves how far can i go in expressing this opposition . Question how much dissent is as old as socrates. It is as f
[chanting] they raise their voices, placards, and march against the government. Most dissenters of the vietnam war can find themselves at this protest activity. Some go farther, burning Selective Service cards. Flying viet cong batters and burning the american flag. During march demonstrations, hundreds of protesters are sometimes arrested. Which activities fall under the bounds of lawful, justified dissent . Which go beyond the limits to become lawless and perhaps rebellious . Scope. The wide world of people and events. Partweek, the vietnam war, 107. How much dissent . Correspondentabc john scali. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnam war. Hardly a day passes when those who support the war dont wonder how much dissent is too much. Askedwho op
You just try to put it behind you and go on with life. Did you have to deal with people who were critical of our involvement in vietnam or did you just not talk about it at all . Botheredvery few who most of them didnt know that i was involved in vietnam. We just went about life. I was never really in that kind of situation where people work trying were trying to attack me or anything like that. You enjoyed your time talking to the public . I loved it. Im think that the archives to this. My grandson and i were down at the wall the other day. It was a wonderful experience for them. I ran across a man down there and he said where were you in vietnam and i said i was at camp he said, were you a bikini . I said yeah. How do you get that . He said, well, youre a pilot. He was in the three 61st 361st, the pink panthers. Both of our companies were in the central highlands. He supported the fourth division. We supported artillery units and the special forces out of pontoon. With the cobra unit
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And he once took us inside his own family in a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rod