Kevin Hillstrom - Vietnam War; Primary Sources (2000), Biznes, 01 - USA(2)

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Primary Sources
Vietnam War
Primary Sources
Kevin Hillstrom
and Laurie Collier
Hillstrom
Diane Sawinski, Editor
Vietnam War
Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom
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Front cover photographs: Walter Cronkite reproduced by permission of
Archive Photos, Inc.; Kent State University shootings reproduced by permis-
sion of Corbis Corp. Back cover: Vietnamese woman with child reproduced by
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963–
Vietnam War : primary sources / Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hill-
strom ; Diane Sawinski, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7876-4887-6
1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961–1975—Sources—Juvenile literature. [1. Viet-
namese Conflict, 1961–1975—Sources.] I. Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, 1965– II.
Sawinski, Diane M. III. Title.
DS557.4 .H55 2001
959.704’3—dc21
00-056377
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Contents
Reader’s Guide
....................ix
Vietnam War Timeline
................xiii
Words to Know
...................xxv
Research and Activity Ideas
..............xxxi
Primary Sources
Prelude to War
.....................1
Ho Chi Minh
....................3
Excerpt from a letter to the editor of the
American magazine
Minority of One,
1964 ....13
The leader of Communist North Vietnam shares his
perspective on the war with the American people
The War at Home
...................21
Martin Luther King, Jr.
..............25
Excerpt from his antiwar speech
“Beyond Vietnam,” 1967 ............31
An American civil rights leader explains his reasons
for opposing the war
v
Robert F. Kennedy
.................43
Excerpt from a speech on the
Vietnam War, 1968 ...............50
A powerful senator calls for an end to U.S. support
for unpopular South Vietnamese rulers
Robert F. Kennedy, U.S.
Senator and 1968
Democratic contender for
the presidential nomination.
Reproduced by permission of
AP/Wide World Photos.
Tim O’Brien
....................59
Excerpt from his story collection
The Things They Carried
.............69
A young man agonizes over whether to obey his
draft notice or flee to Canada
Richard M. Nixon
.................
77
Excerpt from the “Silent Majority”
speech, 1969 ..................84
The president outlines his plan for ending the war
and asks the American people for their support
Bill Rubenstein
..................95
Excerpt from”Tragedy at Kent” in
Middle of the Country
..............103
A student at Kent State University describes the National
Guard shootings that killed four college students in 1970
The War in Vietnam
.................113
Walter Cronkite
.................117
Excerpt from an editorial following
the Tet Offensive, 1968 ............122
A well-known broadcaster calls the war a bloody stalemate
Le Ly Hayslip
..................
133
Excerpt from her memoir
When Heaven
and Earth Changed Places
............137
A Vietnamese woman remembers how the war
divided her village
Philip Caputo
..................147
Excerpt from his memoir
A Rumor of War
....156
An American soldier talks about losing comrades
in Vietnam
Tim O’Brien.
Photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Reproduced by permission.
Julie Forsythe
..................165
Excerpt from
In the Combat Zone: An Oral
History of American Women in Vietnam
......172
An American relief worker remembers her service at
a civilian rehabilitation center in Quang Ngai province
vi
Vietnam War: Primary Sources
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