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        The Vietnam War
            New York City March, 1967
An antiwar activist recalls a large protest march in New York City, where Martin Luther King, Jr., called for an end to the bombing.
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            President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with US involvement in Vietnam.
        
        
    
    
                            
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            After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided.