The American War

Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”

Sep 19, 2017

22:31

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Importance of Hope in the 1960s

5min

The Consensus That I Accepted as a Given Got Codified

5min

The Importance of Dispatches

2min

The Importance of Understanding America's Role in the World

2min

The Importance of Idealism in the Vietnam War

2min

The Importance of Letting Go of Ideals

3min

It’s easy to say now that the Vietnam War was always a doomed endeavor. But Americans who went to fight in Vietnam thought they were answering John F. Kennedy’s call to public service. Alyssa asks Ken Burns how our ideals went so wrong.

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