· 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—

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

· 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 on Vietnam (many have documents as well)

· Winter Soldier Investigation Testimony given in Detroit, Michigan, 1971: This is testimony of Vietnam Vets. Background mentioned in my outline—

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

o Air Calvary (Torture, killing “gooks”)

· 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

Student Movement

· Bill Mandel’s testimony before HUAC in Berkeley Mandel testified while five-thousand Berkeley students demonstrated outside --

· Free Speech Movement Archives

Berkeley Free Speech Movement Archives

· Mario Savio’s speech and “End to History”

· Berkeley free speech movement reflections

· Personal Narratives from the 1960s

· Port Huron Statement—full version

· Port Huron Statement-short version

· SNCC as part of the student movement

· SNCC position paper on VW http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SNCC_VN.html

· Diggers Archives

· Summer of Love Archives

· Yippie Manifesto

· Yippie Writings and Yippie advocates

· Jerry Rubin speech to the Yippie Convention (real player)

· Chicago 7 conspiracy trial, with lots of other artifacts, including posters, photos and the surreal trial transcript—also has great links

· Another Chicago 7 website Under construction, but good material, good links, though many not functional

Major Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Songs/Music of the 1960s—see sixties sites above as well

· Country Joe McDonald’s Vietnam War Songs

· Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War

· Motown history

http://www.Motown.com

· Heat Wave and NoWhere To Run-Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

· Bob Dylan

Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Oxford Town by Bob Dylan

· Barry McGuire’s Eve of Destruction (1965)

· Phil Ochs - 60s balladeer

Love Me, I’m a Liberal

· Grateful Dead Lyrics

· MC-5

· Tom Lehrer

· Chuck Berry

· Marvin Gaye

· Soul Patrol and Civil Rights

· Sam Cooke

· Jimi Hendrix

· Big Brother and the Holding Company

· A Reasonable interpretation of American Pie by Don McClean

· San Francisco Rock 1965-1969

· Grateful Dead Lyrics

· Grateful Dead [official site]

· Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

· Stax Records, the Incubator of Funk

· “Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution” (Documents)

· To Dance By TOM ROBBINS (1967)

· The 60s: Notes of Discord (an interpretation of the role of music in the decade)

· Conservative Perspectives on Rock Music

· When Nixon Met Elvis – exhibit from the National Archives; bizarre=Elvis offers his assistance to the war on drugs and against hippies

Counterculture

· Psychedelic Sixties - all you ever wanted to know about the counterculture

· Diggers Archives

· Hippies Link

· Timothy Leary (currently closed, but keep checking)

· Abbie Hoffman

· Allen Ginsberg

· Allen Ginsberg’ selected poetry “Howl”, “America”, “A Supermarket In California”, “To Aunt Rose”

· Summer of Love

· Haight-Ashbury

Reaction and Repression, 1960s:

· FBI Electronic Reading Room 1000s of documents from more than 150 declassified FBI files made available due to Freedom of Information Act. Includes files on SNCC, murder of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner, Black Panther Party, Weather Underground. As usual, too much blacked out in the supposed interest of national security.

· COINTELPRO 1960s – files on Jean Seburg, actress targeted for “neutralization” by the FBI

· Chicago Seven Trial

· Declassified Documents on the American Indian Movement

· 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

· A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority

· Excerpt from Freedom Under Fire: U.S. Civil Liberties in Times of War

n U.S. Senate’s Church Committee (1976) findings: USING COVERT ACTION TO DISRUPT AND DISCREDIT DOMESTIC GROUPS

n Excerpts from the Church Committee on Cointelpro (1000 pages of the 4000 pages of the Committee evidence) and Excerpts from COINTELPRO—see table of contents for specifics http://www.derechos.net/paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm

                      - COINTELPRO - Puerto Rican Independence Movement
                        COINTELPRO - Black Liberation Movement
                        COINTELPRO - New Left
- COINTELPRO - AIM

· Cointelpro’s program to destroy the Black Panther Party

· Chronology of Kent State Shootings

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

· Nixon video highlights

· Conservative Perspectives on Rock Music

Ronald Reagan, Freedom vs. Anarchy on Campus

Tony Imperiale stands for Law and Order

Wallace

· Nixon: If Mob Rule Takes Hold in the US\

· John Birch Society perspective on the student movement and Vietnam http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/below/berkeley_vietnam_day.htm (Berkeley) and http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/ http://www.jbs.org/vietnam/below/youth.htm (Rubin and Kent State)

· Remembering George Wallace Another Perspective on Wallace

· Map of Wallace vote, 1968

· Wallace Quotes

· Perspective on National Review conservativism lamenting the death of the veiled racist voice

· American Indian Movement

· American Indian Movement with link to documents

· Declassified Documents on the American Indian Movement

· COINTELPRO - AIM