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Martin Luther King Jr. Speaks out against the Vietnam war:

Excerpts of a Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967.




The full text of the speech is here.

Yet the Pentagon says MLK would support the war in Afghanistan.

Read about it here.

Bill Moyers' Journal : LBJ's Path to War

In LBJ's Path to War, Bill Moyers examines LBJ's deliberations leading up to the escalation in Vietnam. The presentation makes use of tape recordings made in the oval office, and other archival footage. Watch it here. (2 parts). I would say he was led by the nose into Vietnam based on what I have seen here.

Lyndon Johnson secretly recorded many of the phone calls and conversations he had in the White House. In this broadcast, you're going to hear excerpts that reveal how he wrestled over what to do in Vietnam. There are hours of tapes and the audio quality is not the best, but I've chosen a few to give you an insight into the mind of one president facing the choice of whether or not to send more and more American soldiers to fight in a far-away and strange place. 

Walter Cronkite - Feb. 27, 1968

Walter Cronkite gives his real opinions about Vietnam following the Tet offensive:



Footage of the fighting in Saigon here:

War Made Easy

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.


Or watch here.