THE VIETNAM WAR The Landmark Documentary Event by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Returns Thursday, May 1 at 9:00 pm Episode Six: “Things Fall Apart” (January 1968 – July 1968)... Read More ...

April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an ...

These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, range from indelible anti-war classics to ...

A new dragon statue guards the Citadel in Hue, seized by northern forces during the 1968 Tet Offensive but then recaptured in some of the fiercest combat of the Vietnam War. Binh Dang A few years ...

The Vietnam War was a long, drawn-out conflict ... who spent more than five and a half years in captivity. The Tet Offensive—a series of guerilla attacks launched by Vietcong and North ...

The Vietnam War widely considered to be an unsubtle ... American people shifted greatly toward opposing the war. The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks launched by Vietcong and ...

The TET Offensive shocked the American people ... were fully capable of conducting military operations in South Vietnam. “Anti-war and counterculture movements sort of coalesced together ...

called Tet. The attack hits 36 major cities and towns in South Vietnam. Both sides suffer heavy casualties, but the offensive demonstrates that the war will not end soon or easily. American public ...

The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses —10,127 casualties and 2,600 deaths — during the Tet Offensive. According to the Department of State’s Office of Historian, it also ...

31, 1968, and the Tet Offensive, an audacious ... it also played a major role in weakening U.S. public support for the Vietnam War. A general misunderstanding of the war, and lack of recognition ...