Vietnam and Watergate

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Vietnam and Watergate

• Vietnam War
• Antiwar movement
• Counterculture
• Watergate

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Jane Fonda in North Vietnam in 1972
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New Social Movements - Vietnam War - Watergate
Chronology
1964 Free Speech movement at Berkeley Freedom
Summer Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1965 Malcolm X
assasinated 1966 National Organization for Women
organized Black Panther Party Founded 1968 Tet
offensive Martin Luther King, Jr.
assasinated Democratic National Convention in
Chicago Richard Nixon elected president Miss
America Beauty Pageant protest 1969 Stonewall
riot Indians of All Nations occupy Alcatraz
island 1970 The Ohio National Guard kills four
students at Kent State 1972 Congress passes Equal
Rights Amendment (not ratified by
states) Break-in at the National Democratic
Convention 1973 Paris peace agreement ends war in
Vietnam for America 1974 President Nixon resigns
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Vietnam War map
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Eddie Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of
General Nguy?n Ng?c Loan executing Nguy?n Van
Lém, a Viet Cong officer, 1968
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My Lai massacre photographs published in 1969
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US Soldiers testimony, Dellums Committee
Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam
BARNES I think that most of the high cmnd knew
about the things that were happening and the "
reasons that they didn't say too much about it or
nothing was processed through about it was that
the main thing was that the object was to go into
Vnam, and the object was to most of the high
cmnd, it was to kill. That was the thing. To come
in and - I don't mean destroy in the sense of the
word which is what they did really, but if a
couple of civilians got in the way, "Thats not a
big matter. Thats the price of war." Thats how
they considered it. If they heard of mass murders
usually it was an overpass, and it didn't have
too much effect, that type of thing. They didn't
care about it. They didn't have no feelings for
the people at all.
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Chicago Democratic Convention, 1968
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Kent State, May 4, 1970 - National Guard
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John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of
Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway,
kneeling over the dead or dying body of Jeffrey
Miller, shot in the mouth by an unknown Ohio
National Guardsman. 70 - Student Killed
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National security blanket
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Not a crook
Washington Post, Sunday, November 18, 1973 Page
A01 Orlando, Fla, Nov. 17 -- Declaring that "I
am not a crook," President Nixon vigorously
defended his record in the Watergate case tonight
and said he had never profited from his public
service. "I have earned every cent. And in all
of my years of public life I have never
obstructed justice," Mr. Nixon said. "People
have got to know whether or not their President
is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned
everything I've got."
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Not a crook
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Not a crook
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President Nixon Quits, 1974