HOW TV DISILLUSIONED AMERICA:
VIETNAM WAR IN THE 1960S
An Idaho State University Student Project

References and Resources
Photographs
Block, H. (1964) "It'll be a relief to get back to plain old horror shows" / Herblock. United States, 1964. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, 20 April 2022, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012636903/.
Ivey, J. (ca. 1960) "This program is coming to you LIVE -- ". United States, ca. 1960. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress 20 April 2022, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016681736/.
Kaufman, A. (1965) "One of these days, George, you'll turn into a vegetable!", 1965. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, 20 April 2022, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009616908/.
Photograph of Dwight D Eisenhower. Department of the Interior. National Park Service. National Capital Parks. Office of Public Information. (10/9/1933 - 1/22/1962). White House Albums, 1953 – 1961; Record Group 79: Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006 [Accessed 22 April 2022, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/594346].
Photograph of a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Vietnam War policy, Washington, D.C. Tretick, S., photographer. (1966) Image from LOOK, titled Senator Fulbright. United States Washington D.C. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress 20 April, 2022 https://www.loc.gov/item/2021685165/.
Photograph 111-SC-651408; Soldiers Carry a Wounded Comrade Through a Swampy Area; 1969; Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981; Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Record Group 111; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, accessed April 21, 2022 https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/soldiers-carry-wounded].
Photograph 111-CCV-619-CC43158; Vietnam…Photograph of US soldiers firing a round a Viet Cong during operation “Wheeler”; 9/15/1967; Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Communications-Electronics. U.S. Army Audiovisual Agency. 1967-1974; Photographs of U.S. Army Operations in Vietnam, 1963 – 1973; Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 – 1985. [Accessed 22 April 2022, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/66956851].
Photograph 127-N-A371493; Vietnam....Marines riding atop an M-48 tank cover their ears as te 90mm gun fires during a road sweep southwest of Phu Bai; 4/3/1968; General Photograph File of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1927 - 1981; Records of the U.S. Marine Corps, Record Group 127; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, accessed 21 April 2022, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/vietnam-marines-m48].
Photograph 111-CCV-351-CC33057; Vietnam…US Solider Burning Rice Storage Unit; Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Communications-Electronics. U.S. Army Audiovisual Agency. 1967-1974; Photographs of U.S. Army Operations in Vietnam, 1963 – 1973; Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 – 1985. [Accessed 22 April 2022, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/66955097].
Photograph 111-C-CC39781; Operation "Oregon" Search and Destroy Mission; 4/24/1967; Color Photographs of Signal Corps Activity, 1944 - 1981; Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Record Group 111; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, accessed 21 April 2022, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/operation-oregon-mission].
Photograph 111-CCV-349-CC43107; Vietnam…Army interpreter Questioning a Viet Cong prisoner
; Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Communications-Electronics. U.S. Army Audiovisual Agency. 1967-1974; Photographs of U.S. Army Operations in Vietnam, 1963 – 1973; Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 – 1985. [Accessed 22 April 2022, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/66953630].
Photograph 127-N-A371411; Vietnam...."Home is where you dig" was the sign over the fighting bunker of Private First Class Edward, Private First Class Falls and Private First Class Morgan of the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment, during Operation Worth; 1968; General Photograph File of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1927 - 1981; Records of the U.S. Marine Corps, Record Group 127; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, accessed April 21, 2022 https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/home-is-where-you-dig-it].
Valtman, E. S. (1960) Here We Go Again. United States, 1960. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress 20 April 2022, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016684295/.
Huet, Henri. (1966, January 30). Vietnam War Medic Cole. [Photograph]. (Subjects: Government and politics, Vietnam War, Events. Negative Number: 027386. Location: An Thi, Vietnam). Associated Press. Accessed online 23 April 2022. http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-A-VNM-APHS027386-Vietnam-War-Medic-Cole/d8a32f9622084728a669900af24d94c2/8/0.
Huet, Henri. (1967, February 21). North Vietnamese Casualties. [Photograph]. (Subjects: War casualties, Vietnam War, War and unrest, General news, Events. Negative Number: 044481. Transmission References: APHS044481). Associated Press. Accessed online 23 April 2022. http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-I-VNM-APHS103-Vietnam-War-North-Vietn-/4af68d3363f2423cb173a8fd89ca8a33/46/0.
Vietnam War: Paratroopers Carry Wounded Into a Medic Helicopter [Photograph]. Associated Press, published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Accessed online 21 April 2022. https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War/images-videos#/media/1/628478/61021.
Articles that Provided Photographs
Attig, H., & Esparza, T. (2007, December). History of American journalism: The 1960s. History of American journalism. Accessed 18 April 2022, https://history-journalism.ku.edu/1960/1960.shtml.
Genova, T. (2013). 1960 - 1969 TV set advertising (USA). Television - The First 75 Years. Accessed 18 April 2022, http://www.tvhistory.tv/1960s-Advertising.htm.
Guardian News and Media. (2015, April 22). Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures. The Guardian. Accessed 20 April 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/vietnam-the-real-war-a-photographic-history-by-the-associated-press-in-pictures.
History.com Editors. (2018, August 21). Eisenhower Doctrine. History.com. Accessed 22 April 2022, https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/eisenhower-doctrine.
Rothman, L., & Gabriner, A. (Eds.). (n.d.). The Vietnam War: The pictures that moved that most. Time. Accessed 21 April 2022, https://time.com/vietnam-photos/.
Woollacott, M. (2015, April 21). Forty years on from the fall of Saigon: Witnessing the end of the Vietnam War. The Guardian. Accessed 22 April, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/21/40-years-on-from-fall-of-saigon-witnessing-end-of-vietnam-war.
Pelley, S., CBS News. (2015, September 29). 50 years ago, "CBS evening news" made history with first 30-minute broadcast. CBS News. Accessed 22 April 2022, https://www.cbsnews.com/video/50-years-ago-cbs-evening-news-made-history-with-first-30-minute-broadcast/.
Video and Textual Resources
Amram, C. (2012, December 11). Eddie Adams talk about the Saigon execution photo [Video]. Accesesed 22 April 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l-uw03QFiU.
History.com Editors. (2017, September 13). Vietnam War timeline. History.com. Accessed 19 April 2022, https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-timeline.
History.com Editors. (2021, October 21). Vietnam War. History.com. Accessed 18 April 2022, https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history.
Mitchell, M. C. (1984). Television and the Vietnam War. U.S. Naval War College Review, 37(3), 42–52.
US National Archives (2018, March 16). Remembering Vietnam [YouTube Playlist]. YouTube [Video]. Accessed 20 April 2022. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLugwVCjzrJsXpWj7aPlKGf83LFkDgd3WW.
US National Archives (2019, March 18). Vietnam War Films [YouTube Playlist]. YouTube [Video]. Accessed 20 April 2022. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLugwVCjzrJsXKnjVf4jglbvHsQJHtC5eE.
Wyatt, C. R. (2014). The Media and the Vietnam War. In D. L. Anderson & J. Ernst (Eds.), The War that never ends: New perspectives on the Vietnam War (pp. 265–287). University Press of Kentucky.
Zaretsky, N., Lawrence, M. A., Griffith, R., & Baker, P. (2014). Major problems in American history since 1945: Documents and essays (Ser. Major Problems in American History, 4th ed.). Cengage Learning.
“President Harry S. Truman declares world split into two ways of life, 1947,” in Public papers of the presidents of the United States: Harry S Truman, 1945-53 (1963). GPO. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 13-16.
“What TV is doing to America,” (1955, September 2). U.S. News and World Report. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 54-57.
Marchand, R. (1982). “Visions of classlessness, quests for dominion: American popular culture,” in Reshaping America: Society and institutions, 1945-1960. Ohio State University Press. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 64-74.
Students for a Democratic Society (1962). Excerpts from the Port Huron Statement. State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 211-214.
Suri, J. (2003). “The Sources of radicalism” in Power and protest: Global revolution and the rise of Détente. Harvard University Press. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 226-235.
Heclo, H. (1996). “The Sixties’ false dawn: Awakenings, movements, and Postmodern policy-making,” in The Journal of Policy History, 8(1). Cambridge University Press. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history Since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 235-244.
“President Dwight D. Eisenhower explains the Domino Theory, 1954,” (1960). In Public papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954. GPO. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 293-294.
Lind, M. (1999). Vietnam the necessary war: A reinterpretation of America’s most disastrous military conflict. Free Press of Simon & Schuster. Printed in Natasha Zaretsky, et al. (2014). Major problems in American history Since 1945: Documents and essays, 4th ed. Cengage Learning, pp. 306-314.
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Published 29 April, 2022.