• Nhan Huu Nguyen interview
    In this interview, Nhan Huu Nguyen argues that the social dislocations in Vietnam were worse after the American soldiers left than they were during the heyday of American troops in Vietnam.


  • Tran Nhan interview
    Tran Nhan recognized the social impact of the American forces on Vietnam. American personnel and supplies had a huge effect on Vietnamese markets.


  • George W Ball interview
    George Ball, an Undersecretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966, argued that the Vietnam War was the greatest mistake in American history.


  • Harry McPherson interview
    McPherson, an aide and speech writer for President Johnson, noted that what the American people saw on television differed dramatically from the written descriptions of the war that the White House received.


  • Jack Valenti interview
    Valenti, an aide to President Johnson during the Vietnam War, believed that Johnson felt the pain of each American casualty who fell in Vietnam. Valenti believed that Johnson's personalization of the war was a mistake.


  • Library Stories
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  • Sherman Grimberg interview
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  • John F. Kerry interview
    Kerry, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until the present, was a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In this interview, he discussed some of the factors that made Vietnam War veterans different from veterans of earlier American wars.


Video Files

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  • Bruce Weigl
    Interview 1 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:40 | ~1.72MB
    Interview 2 | Video ( wmv ) | 01:11 | ~3.02MB
    Interview 3 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:51 | ~2.18MB
    Interview 4 | Video ( wmv ) | 01:17 | ~3.28MB

  • Grace Paley: Lessons - POW Visit
    Interview | Video ( wmv ) | 01:33 | ~3.96MB

  • Lady Borton: Legacies-Economic Costs
    Interview | Video ( wmv ) | 01:08 | ~2.90MB

  • Larry Heinemann
    Interview 1 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:54 | ~2.29MB
    Interview 2 | Video ( wmv ) | 01:22 | ~3.49MB
    Interview 3 | Video ( wmv ) | 02:18 | ~2.57MB
    Interview 4 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:58 | ~2.47MB
    Interview 5 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:29 | ~1.26MB

  • Ly Lan
    Interview 1 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:45 | ~1.92MB
    Interview 2 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:40 | ~1.74MB
    Interview 3 | Video ( wmv ) | 00:36 | ~1.54MB

  • Trav Vu - Childhood Memory 1975
    Interview | Video ( wmv ) | 01:33 | ~641KB
Going to War, What was it like? What were experiences like in the front and the rear, how did they differ? What were the experiences of civilians, Vietnamese and other? How was race and racial conflict in the U.S. experienced in Vietnam? What was the after war experience of veterans? U.S. and Vietnamese?