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  • The Sixties The War in Vietnam (Season 1, Episode 4)
  • TV Episode | 42 min | Documentary, History

The Sixties

The War in Vietnam (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 42 min | Documentary, History

The complexities that led to America's involvement in the Vietnam War is explored by looking at what affect the assassination of President Kennedy and the installment of Lyndon Johnson into the Oval Office might have played.
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Jun 19, 2014 (United States)

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44 cast members
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Frederick Ackerson
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Andrew Bacevich
Self - Professor, Brown University Self - Professor, Brown University   See fewer
David Brinkley
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
McGeorge Bundy
Self - US Natl Security Adv. (archive footage) Self - US Natl Security Adv. (archive footage)   See fewer
Phil Caputo
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
John Chancellor
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Charles Collingwood
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Walter Cronkite
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Robert Dallek
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Ngo Dinh Diem
Self - President of South Vietnam (archive footage) Self - President of South Vietnam (archive footage)   See fewer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - US President (archive footage) Self - US President (archive footage)   See fewer
Murray Fromson
Self - CBS News Self - CBS News   See fewer
Tom Hayden
Self - Co-Founder SDS Self - Co-Founder SDS   See fewer
George Herring
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Chet Huntley
Self - ABC News (archive footage) Self - ABC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Lady Bird Johnson
US First Lady (archive footage) US First Lady (archive footage)   See fewer
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self - President Lyndon B. Johnson (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson) Self - President Lyndon B. Johnson (archive footage) (as Lyndon Johnson)   See fewer
Marvin Kalb
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Frederick J. Karch
Self - US Brigadier General (archive footage) Self - US Brigadier General (archive footage)   See fewer
John F. Kennedy
Self - President John F. Kennedy (archive footage) Self - President John F. Kennedy (archive footage)   See fewer
Robert F. Kennedy
Self - US Atty. General (archive footage) Self - US Atty. General (archive footage)   See fewer
Mark Kurlansky
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Fredrik Logevall
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
David Maraniss
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Karl Marlantes
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Frank McGee
Self - NBC News (archive footage) Self - NBC News (archive footage)   See fewer
Robert McNamara
Self - Secretary of Defense (archive footage) Self - Secretary of Defense (archive footage)   See fewer
Wayne Morse
Self - US Senator Oregon (archive footage) Self - US Senator Oregon (archive footage)   See fewer
Tim Naftali
Self - Historian Self - Historian   See fewer
Tim O'Brien
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Denny O'Neil
Self - Scriptwriter Self - Scriptwriter   See fewer
Dan Rather
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Harry Reasoner
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
Richard Reeves
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Thomas Ricks
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Richard B. Russell
Self - US Senator Georgia (voice) (archive footage) (as Richard Russell) Self - US Senator Georgia (voice) (archive footage) (as Richard Russell)   See fewer
Morley Safer
Self - CBS News Self - CBS News   See fewer
Robert Schenkkan
Self - Playwright, 'All the Way' Self - Playwright, 'All the Way'   See fewer
Neil Sheehan
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
Maxwell Taylor
Self (as General Maxwell D. Taylor) (archive footage) Self (as General Maxwell D. Taylor) (archive footage)   See fewer
Mike Wallace
Self - CBS News (archive footage) Self - CBS News (archive footage)   See fewer
William C. Westmoreland
Self - Gen. William Westmoreland - Senior U,S, Commander - South Vietnam (archive footage) Self - Gen. William Westmoreland - Senior U,S, Commander - South Vietnam (archive footage)   See fewer
Lawrence Wright
Self - Author Self - Author   See fewer
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