Zinn Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians
From Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States— Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians Hal Ashby's Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front. From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country—and failed. When the United States fought...
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