New Revelations on 40th Anniversary of Sean Flynn's Disappearance
For some, it’s one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Vietnam War. Forty years ago today, April 6th 1970, Sean Flynn, son of Hollywood legend Errol Flynn, was working as a war photographer when he...
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New Tactics in Afghanistan Resemble Vietnam Phoenix Program
In the last five months, U.S. military raids in Afghanistan have captured or killed more than 130 insurgents deemed significant in the war. The recent shift in the military's counterterrorism approach...
View ArticleOverseas Press Club: Dickey Chapelle, 1964
At a time when wartime journalism was almost exclusively the territory of men, photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, blazed a trail as an award winning war correspondent, setting herself apart from other...
View ArticleYellow Rain
Producer Pat Walters brings us a detective story from the Cold War, about a mysterious substance that fell from the sky in Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam war.As retired CIA officer Merle...
View ArticleFerdinand Marcos and John Lindsay Foster U.S.-Philippines Ties, 1966
Ferdinand Marcos, the newly elected president of the Philippines, and his wife, Imelda, are welcomed to New York by Mayor John Lindsay in a ceremony at City Hall. The mayor lauds Marcos as "a fighter...
View ArticleIt Worked in Theory: Richard Nixon on Strategy in South Vietnam, 1966
Richard M. Nixon chooses this 1966 appearance at the Overseas Press Club to lay out his position on Vietnam, but not before amiably ribbing Democrats and the press.After a boisterous introduction by...
View ArticleEd Koch's Press Conference, on His 65th Birthday
Presentation of a new report on how science and technology can help city operations. The mayor condemns Britain's shipping of Vietnam refugees back to Vietnam. He comments on aging (he turns 65 but he...
View ArticleAmerican Icons: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
This is the monument that changed how America remembers war. How do you build a monument to a war that was more tragic than triumphant? Maya Lin was practically a kid when she got the commission to...
View ArticleRemembering Vietnam at the Wall
Last month, as part of our American Icons series, we explored the history and enduring impact of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. After the broadcast, we heard from dozens of listeners— including many...
View ArticleOn Our Minds: Quan Barry Writes Vietnam
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the first US combat troops landing in Vietnam. In the United States, we tend to view Vietnam almost exclusively through the lens of the American war there. So...
View ArticleHow Soldiers Cope with Killing
Karl Marlantes is a decorated U.S. Marine who was awarded two Purple Hearts for his service in Vietnam. He's also spent the last 40 years coping with the trauma of what he experienced in Vietnam. He...
View ArticleWar Criminal?
Late in lafe, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara admitted the Vietnam War was a huge mistake, but he always avoided questions of personal responsibility. Docmentary filmmaker Errol Morris...
View ArticleMaxwell Taylor and The Uncertain Trumpet
Although he jokes about his editor suggesting that, as a publicity stunt, he "get himself court-martialed," General Maxwell Taylor has pretty much done the next best thing, ostentatiously retiring as...
View ArticleInvestigative Satirist Paul Krassner Interviewed by Steve Post
Satirist Paul Krassner passed away this past Sunday. In 2004 WNYC host Steve Post spoke with Krassner, whom he described as "a kind of counter-cultural renaissance man." Writer, publisher editor,...
View ArticleA Time to Break Silence
On April 4, 1967, civil rights leader and Nobel laureate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a gathering of more than three thousand people at New York’s Riverside Church. His talk that day, Beyond...
View Article"You Don't Belong Here"
Before the Vietnam War there was a law that banned women from reporting on the frontlines of any war for the U.S. When President Johnson refused to officially declare a state of war in Vietnam, an...
View Article"You Don't Belong Here"
Before the Vietnam War there was a law that banned women from reporting on the frontlines of any war for the U.S. When President Johnson refused to officially declare a state of war in Vietnam, an...
View ArticleMixtape: The Wandering Soul
As the Vietnam war dragged on, the US military began desperately searching for any vulnerability in their North Vietnamese enemy. In 1964, they found it. It was an old Vietnamese folktale involving a...
View ArticleHow Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
Before the Vietnam War there was a law that banned women from reporting on the frontlines of any war for the United States. When President Johnson refused to officially declare a state of war in...
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