Susan Rosenfeld’s essay on the failure of historians to remember the bombing at the University of Wisconsin at Madison during the Vietnam War deals with a real and significant issue, but it is itself ...
In the spring of 1970, the Portland State University campus had been a hive of anti-Vietnam War activity for months. But things got hot on May 11 when Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk ordered police to ...
LOW. WELCOME BACK FOLKS. THE EFFORT TO HONOR A SOLDIER FROM SHOREWOOD KILLED DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. MICHAEL O’DONNELL DIED IN CAMBODIA IN 1970. 12 NEWS EMILY POFAHL REPORTS ON HIS HIGH SCHOOL ...
In December of 1970, CBS News reported on an exchange ceremony where U.S. Navy river patrol boats were turned over to the ...
On August 29, 1970, more than 20,000 demonstrators marched in East LA. The march was called The National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War. “Many of my friends had already been drafted and ...
On this date 55 years ago, May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard members fired on student protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting ...
Vietnam veteran Johnny Wilkes knows what war is like. Wilkes served in the Vietnam War as a Chinook helicopter pilot and was shot down eight times from 1968 to 1969. “I remember they made us change ...