The Death of Ho Chi Minh

Vietnam is a proxy war fought over the large ideologies in lieu of World War III which I think everybody would agree would not be the pleasant alternative. The French knew pretty clearly that it was unwinnable in the mid 60s, it's just devastating information. And to sort of concede to the fact that the only way to make it look like we're winning is to have a bigger body count on their side. We had found an American that Marine advisor in a South Vietnamese Marine who were in a battle. So we wanted to find a Viet Cong who was in that same battle and he went to the local veterans organizations and talked to people so he did a lot of legwork