Remembering Death of a revolutionary Black leader : Kwame Ture
Send that boy-off to die
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Remembering Agent Orange: Operation Ranch Hand Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos 1961-1967
Operation Ranch Hand
Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos 1961-1967
Four-plane defoliant run, part of Operation Ranch Hand
Remembering Kent State massacre
The Kent State shootings (also known as the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, United States.[6] The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces, as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft.
Remembering Thích Quảng Đức, Saigon, South Vietnam, June 11th, 1963
In 1963, a monk set himself alight in Saigon – a clear demarcation point, where it became impossible for the man in the street not to wonder what was happening in Vietnam and what had compelled a man of peace to such violence. Domestically, Thích Quảng Đức set himself alight to protest the Diệm regime’s persecution of Buddhists. Internationally, this act drew the world’s attention to a tiny nation fighting for independence, ostensibly since 1858.
Remembering Ho Dinh Van, South Vietnam 1967
In 1967, Ho Dinh Van was a Buddhist priest in South Vietnam who became a tragic symbol of religious and political protest during the Vietnam War.
Remembering general Nguyen Ngoc loan
Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed a handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive.[2][3] Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member.[2] South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ stated that Lém was "a very high ranking" political official, but had not been a member of the Viet Cong military.[4] The event was witnessed and recorded by Võ Sửu, a cameraman for NBC, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer. The photo and film became two famous images in contemporary American journalism.
Remembering boat people Vietnamese refugees 1975-1995
Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who fled their country by sea following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This mass exodus peaked in the late 1970s and 1980s, driven by political repression, "re-education camps", and severe economic hardship under the new communist regime.
Remembering Napalm Bombing of children Trang Bang South Vietnam1972
On June 8, 1972, during the Vietnam War, a South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped napalm bombs on civilian and military positions near the village of Trảng Bàng. The resulting attack burned several children and produced one of the 20th century's most iconic photographs, formally titled "The Terror of War".
Remembering Fall of Saigon, April 25th 1975
Navy personnel struggle to push an army Huey helicopter off the deck of a U.S. Navy carrier to make room for more refugee flights on April 29, 1975.
On April 25, 1975, Saigon was in a state of terminal crisis, just five days before its final collapse to North Vietnamese forces.
While the "Fall of Saigon" is officially dated to April 30, 1975, April 25 marked a critical turning point in the city's final days