WASHINGTON (WCSC) - Nearly 800 people were arrested in the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago. The rally began on Oct. 21, 1967, at the Lincoln Memorial with ...
This week in history, on October 21, 1967, University of Connecticut students travelled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the March on the Pentagon, where more than 100,000 people rallied to ...
BROCKTON — Lorraine Burbank was 10 in the summer of 1967. One day a priest and two Marines showed up at the gate. It meant her older brother was dead. Marine Cpl. Wladyslaw "Scotty" Staniszewski was ...
When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president’s ability to send troops into extended combat without ...
21 August 1967, four A-6 Intruders of USS Constellation's VA-196 launch on a mission against Duc Noi railway marshaling yard. It's a diversionary attack in support of the main USAF raid. The flight is ...
The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 ...