The Tet Offensive and the Media
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Robert McNamara in 1968



Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1968. A participant in some of the most contentious foreign policy decisions of the 20th century, McNamara is spotlighted in a documentary film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.

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Abrams, Creighton
African Americans: soldiers on combat mission
Bundy, McGeorge
Cronkite, Walter
Giap, Vo Nguyen
Ho Chi Minh
HUE CITY, Operation: medic
Hue massacre
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Lyndon B.: in White House situation room
Johnson, Lyndon B.: with Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara
Journalists discuss media's role in Vietnam
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, John F.: discusses Vietnam with Walter Cronkite
Kissinger, Henry
March on the Pentagon
Marines destroy Viet Cong bunker
McNamara, Robert: in 1968
Nixon, Richard
Nixon, Richard: with Henry Kissinger
Prisoners: young Viet Cong awaits interrogation
Protest at the Pentagon
Soldier reads Stars and Stripes
Tet Offensive aftermath
Tet Offensive attacks
Tet Offensive: funeral services
Tet Offensive: mass burial service
Tet Offensive: refugees
Tet Offensive: refugees
Tet Offensive: refugees flee attacks
Tet Offensive: troops prepare
Tet Offensive: Viet Cong suspect executed
Viet Cong soldier
Vietnam War: a girl and child amid Saigon ruins
Vietnam War: Guam Conference
Vietnam War: students protest
Vietnam War: Walter Cronkite interview in Hue City
Vietnam War: Westmoreland and Taylor meet with press
Vietnam War: William Westmoreland at Honolulu Conference
Westmoreland, William C.
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