Government Lies From Vietnam
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For nearly a decade, the civil conflict in Vietnam was merely a footnote to the evening news in the United States. But with the first reports of an “unprovoked attack” on the U.S. destroyer Maddox by the North Vietnamese in the summer of 1964, Americans were faced with a whole new vernacular of ....
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.... was now the time to stand up for yourself. Many people who stood up for themselves became targets of FBI and CIA investigations. There was no way that African-Americans were going to support a war that not only needlessly harmed citizens, but also put a damper on there own fight for justice. Just a few years before the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the CIA had failed miserably with their attempted invasion of the Bay of Pigs.
The government’s need to lie can be summed up by Victor Zorza in his W ....
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