· Leslie Gelb Analyzes the Roots of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam (document)-this is the state departments own “explanation” for the roots of U.S. involvement; note the defensive reaction to the accusations about the real motivations for involvement

· McNamara on the way that the Cold War purges affected Vietnam

· Senator Fulbright on the Arrogance of Power 1966

· President Johnson White House Tapes -“I don’t think it’s worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out” –May 1964

· Jim Vacarella Describes Avoiding the Draft During the Vietnam War

· The CIA and Vietnam: Three Episodes, 1962-1968—

· Winter Soldier Investigation Testimony given in Detroit, Michigan, 1971: This is testimony of Vietnam Vets.

o 1^st Marine Division (shooting of unarmed civilians)

o Air Calvary (Torture, killing “gooks”)

· SNCC position paper on VW

· Right-wing views on the Vietnam War-John Birch Society coverage shows the type of ideas that have supported the idea that the U.S. lost because it didn’t try to win the war

· Selections from the Vietnam Generation Journal

· Martin Luther King's declaration of independence from the war in Vietnam

· A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority

· Conspiracy to Oppose the War in Vietnam by Benjamin Spock Excerpt from It Did Happen Here by Schulz and Schulz (see Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority as companion piece to this

Websites and links on Vietnam (many have documents as well)

· Spartacus Educational Website on Vietnam—links to short biographies, and 100 other websites

· Vietnam War Internet Project –documents, including those relating to Mai Lai

· Remembrance stories, poems, songs, maps, and narratives from or about the Vietnam War era

· A Historian Reviews the recent Vietnam War Movie: “We Were Soldiers Once” But Which War?”

· Perspective on the Bob Kerry Revelations about murdering children in Vietnam

· The New Hampshire Gazette’s list of “Chickenhawks”—those current pro-war politicians who avoided military service during Vietnam—

· Story on Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the little girl who ran away from the napalm in Hearts and Minds

· CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam by former Southeast Asia CIA operative Ralph McGhee

· International War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam –1967

see therein the description of Napalm effects

· Agent Orange website

· Operation Linebacker 1972—when bombing replaces U.S. troops—carnage; for those who think the U.S. “fought with one arm tied”

· Pentagon Papers materials from the National Security Archive

· The Pentagon Papers—commentary. The Pentagon Papers were the leaked documents that showed how the government was lying about the Vietnam War, and which made Nixon go “ballistic” about the problems they might cause about questioning the war

· Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg from Presidential Decisions and public dissent series

· Vietnam: Stories since the war --oral histories of the war’s impact, developed after a PBS P.O.V. show

· Right-wing views on the Vietnam War-John Birch Society http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/index.htm