From WGBH Interview Transcripts:

  • Dean Rusk interview
    The United States was worried, in the years after World War II, about the challenge of global Communism. Dean Rusk describes, in this interview, the ways in which US policy makers viewed France and the French colonies at the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950.


  • Pham Duy interview
    Pham Duy, a Vietnamese resistance fighter against the French, recalls the songs he wrote to inspire his cohorts. He carried his gun and sang his songs into battle.


  • Ton That Tung interview
    Despite his comfortable life under the French, this Vietnamese doctor was inspired by Ho Chi Minh to join the resistance. In this interview, Dr. Ton That Tung explains why he took his family into the jungle to fight the French.

What was the NLF? Why did people join? Who were the North Vietnamese? What were U.S. relations with Vietnam prior to 1945, 1954? Who was Ho Chi Minh and What role did he play? How were the enemy portrayed to U.S. troops and the public?