[Leica] Did a Single Photograph or Two Stop the War In Viet Nam?

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Right on, Buzz! (as some of us used to say.) And if it was photographs,
it was the photos Life Magazine ran of all the GI's who had died in
Vietnam in a single week - THOSE photos made a difference.
I am always amused by the contention that Philip Jones Griffiths' book,
"Vietnam Inc." turned Americans against the war - and, yes, that
contention is made, by Noam Chomsky among others. If 2500 people saw the
first edition of that book - as powerful and compelling as it is - it
was allot. 

B. D.

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Buzz Hausner
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Nam?


I gasp in disbelief that Marc Small should only be partly correct in his
analysis.  What really brought American opinion to view the War in Viet
Nam with revulsion was not the action of the students...indeed, I was an
active protester...it was our mothers who finally stood up and said (in
essence), "Hell, No!  Not with my boy you don't"  It wasn't photographs
of terrified, naked children, nor of Vietnamese executioners that caused
our mothers' to wonder for what their sons died, it was the broadcast
news film and tape of Americans fighting in the jungles, Americans
screaming in pain, and Americans coming home dead.

        Buzz Hausner

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Of Marc James Small
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At 06:00 PM 5/10/04 EDT, TTAbrahams@aol.com wrote:
>The Eddie Adams shot of the
>killing of the prisoner and Nick's shot of the girl probably did more
to 
>create resistance to the US involvement in Vietnam than any other
coverage.


Hmm.  Tom, I will dissent to the point that the Gallup and Harris polls
into 1973 showed that US resistance to the War was directly based on the
apparent unwilliingness of the Government to WIN the war.  That is, at
the very point when the Republic of Viet-Nam was dieing, the average US
citizen supported massive US support to bolster that government


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