Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180529:03:04:00
>> it's a marine base up in the northwestern corner of south vietnam. the forces started attacking. >> 6,000 american marines and 5,000 vietnamese rangers are surrounded by 40,000 communist troops. >> and general westmoreland says, this is great. this is the big culminating battle that we wanted. >> johnson is very worried that the outcome of this battle could change the outcome of the war. >> the eyes of the nation and of all history itself are on that brave band of defenders at khe sanh, and the area that is around it. [ gun shots ] >> it's hard for me to imagine that the '60s would have tur...