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Tim O'Brien on award-winning Vietnam War book, 'The Things They Carried'

Vietnam Tapes: Letters from a Willmar soldier

On the 50th anniversary of overwhelming Congressional passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, August 7th 1964, a BBC documentary featuring archival audio of President Johnson and his advisors discussing the complicated and controversial decision to announce an "unprovoked attack" on American ships and the retaliatory strike that followed. President Johnson said "we seek no wider war," but a much wider war followed.

BBC 'War, Lies and Audiotape' Vietnam War documentary

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