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Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”

The American War

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The Consensus That I Accepted as a Given Got Codified

The consensus got forged less by pop culture than by how little we were willing to sort of push back against these things. I liked having my own worldview rocked, just like in the World War II,. Ken's co-director Lynn Novick and your executive producer Sarah Botstein were born after the Vietnam War was over. The film raises an important point: Even if you were born during the conflict, you might know more about how artists felt about the war than about the war itself.

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