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DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP G INOWBY GROUP Anti-Vietnam War Movement Timeline Document A: Martin Luther King, Jr. 1965 180,000 American forces in Vietnam I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. 1967 500, 000 American forces in Vietnam Oct. 1967 is at the outset a very obvious . . . connection between the war in Vietnam 75,000 protest against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. and the struggle I and others have been waging in an waging in America. A few years ago. . Jan. 1968 Tet Offensive: Surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities by seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black and white eating and worth vietnamese forces. Ultimately, it was a military through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. loss for the Communists. But Americans watched on TV and were he the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and hocked and horrified that the U.S. was caught off-guard. eviscerated [gutted] . . . . And I knew that America would never invest the CBS news anchor, Walter Cronkite, famously said, "We he necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures too often disappointed by the optimism of the American ers, both in Vietnam and Washington,. .. [We] are mired in like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic, nate that could only be ended by negotiation, not victory." destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an Feb. 1968 60% of Americans disapprove of Johnson's handling of the war enemy of the poor and to attack it as such. April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at June 4, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy assassinated. Many believe that RFK would have been the Democratic home. . . . We wer were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our mocratic nominee for president society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Jan-June 1968 221 college protests against the Vietnam war Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the c good with the cruel irony of watching Negro and Aug. 1968 Democratic National Convention: 10,000 anti-war protesters clash white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been with policemen and National Guardsmen. The violence is caught on unable to seat them together in the same schools.. .. television. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. . . .But Nov. 1969 My Lal Massacre: Americans first hear of the My Lai massacre, they asked, and rightly so, "What about Vietnam?" . . . Their questions hit home which occurred in March 1968, when U.S. troops brutally attacked and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the 300-500 Vietnamese, mostly women and children. Knowledge of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest incident sparks public outrage. purveyor [supplier] of violence in the world today. my own government. For the April 1970 Cambodia: President Nixon announces that American forces have sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds bombed parts of the Ho Chi Minh trail throughout Laos and of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent. Cambodia. This announcement angers Americans because Nixon campaigned on the promise of ending the war. Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is May 1970 Kent State: Student protest at Kent State University against Nixon's being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being invasion of Cambodia. National Guardsmen are brought in to break protest. They wound 9 students and kill 4 (2 of whom were not subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of involved in the protest). smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I Jackson State: (June 1970) Student protest at an all-black college in speak as one who loves America, to the leaders of our own nation: The great Mississippi. National Guardsmen shoot and kill 2 students, wounding Initiative [power to take charge] in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours. June 1971 Pentagon Papers: Top-secret military report that was leaked to the New York Times and revealed that the U.S. had drawn up plans to go to war with Vietnam even when President Johnson claimed he Source: Martin Luther King's speech, "Beyond Vietnam, " delivered April 4, 1967, wouldn't send troops. at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP Inquirygroup.org DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP Inquirygroup.org INQUIRY GROUP GROUP Document B: John Kerry Anti-Vietnam War Movement Graphic Organizer I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans. . . Initial Hypothesis: Based on information in the timeline, why did many Americans oppose the Vietnam War? experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam which In our opinion and from our expertgives thetinted States of America. And to could happen that realistically threatens the United States of A attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom. . .is to us the height of criminal Document A: Martin Luther King, Jr. hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart. . . source: Who gave this We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and speech delivered? What democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing do you predict he will [repeatedly attacking] them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and say? tearing their country apart. . . . Context: At this point, zed destroying villages in order to save them. . . .We learned the the United States? meaning of free fire zones, shooting anything that moves, and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of orientals. . . According to this document, why did many Americans oppose the Vietna Each day . . . someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't "the first President to lose a war." be, and these are his words, "the first Preside We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to Document B: John Kerry die for a mistake?. . . We are here to ask, and we are here to ask vehemently, where are the leaders of Source: who gave is leadership? We're here to ask where are McNamara, speech delivered? What our country? Where is the leadership Rostow, Bundy, Gilpatrick, and so many others? Where are they now that we, do you predict he will say? the men they sent off to war, have returned? These are the commanders who have deserted their troops. And there is no more serious crime in the laws of war. Context: At this point, what was happening in We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own memories of that service the United States? as easily as this administration has wiped away their memories of us. But all that . is to make more clear than ever our own determination to they have done . . . is to make morse Final hypothesis: Drawing from all the documents, why did many American Vietnam War? undertake one last mission - to search out and destroy . . . the hate and fear that have driven this country these last ten years and more. Source: John Kerry, testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971. John Kerry was a veteran who returned from Vietnam in April 1969, having won early transfer out of the conflict because of his three Purple Hearts. He joined a group called Vietnam Veterans Against the War. DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP Inquirygroup.org DIGITAL INQUIRY GROUP