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The Vietnam War
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President Nixon authorizes U.S. forces to launch airstrikes on North Vietnam in December, 1972. #VietnamWarPBS
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1:28:17
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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1:57:25
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
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1:57:55
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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1:25:20
After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided.