To US netters: PBS will replay "VN: A Television History"

[AnHai Doan <anhai@cs.washington.edu>]

From=20www.pbs.org site:

                           THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
                      "Vietnam: A Television History"
         =97 Emmy Award-Winning Series Returns to Public Television =97

     "Vietnam: A Television History," the landmark series first
     broadcast in 1983, returns to PBS Mondays, May 26-July 28, 1997,
     9:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) as a special presentation of
     THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. The series examines America=92s longest war
     in the context of France=92s earlier colonial experience as well as
     Southeast Asia and Vietnam=92s 2,000-year history of resistance to
     foreign invaders. The programs provide a rich tapestry of archival
     footage combined with provocative interviews with participants on
     all sides of the political conflict. Series host David McCullough
     provides a new introductory essay to the first program.

        * Roots of a War /America=92s Mandarin (1954-63) (5/26) This
          program traces the rise of a pro-American Vietnamese
          nationalist, Ho Chi Minh, whose Vietminh guerrillas grab a
          stunning victory over French colonial forces. The United
          States is drawn into Vietnam through its support =97 then
          abandonment =97 of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, who
          is assassinated in a coup.

        * LBJ Goes to War (1964-65) (6/2) Charging that North Vietnam
          had attacked American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, President
          Johnson orders bombing raids and sends 200,000 troops into an
          undeclared war.

        * America Takes Charge (1965-67) (6/9) With the South
          Vietnamese army in disarray, the U.S. military assumes
          control of the war, leading to increased American casualties
          in a country both beautiful and horrific.

        * America=92s Enemy (1954-67) (6/16) The episode examines the war
          Americans seldom saw: the view from North Vietnam, featuring
          the perspectives of communist leaders, Vietcong guerrillas
          and American prisoners of war.

        * Tet, 1968 (6/23) North Vietnam=92s dramatic offensive on the
          lunar New Year stuns American military and political leaders,
          leading to calls for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

        * Vietnamizing the War (1969-73) (6/30) As the U.S. turns over
          the war to the South Vietnamese army, the impact is felt on
          American soldiers and Vietnamese citizens, and the prospects
          for victory dim.

        * Cambodia and Laos (7/7) With fighting already spread to
          neighboring Laos, President Nixon orders a secret bombing
          campaign against Cambodia, which soon endures a nightmarish
          post-war holocaust.

        * Peace is at Hand (1968-73) (7/14) As President Nixon
          escalates the bombing of Hanoi and North Vietnamese troops
          advance, negotiators struggle for four years to sign a peace
          treaty that is quickly broken.

        * Homefront U.S.A (7/21) Americans at home divide over a
          distant war, clashing in the streets as demonstrations lead
          to bloodshed, bitterness and increasing doubts about the
          outcome.

        * The End of the Tunnel (1973-75) (7/28) Ten years after
          American ground troops arrived in South Vietnam, communists
          seize Saigon in a lightning attack that brings the war to a
          startling conclusion.

          "Vietnam: A Television History" won several awards, including
          six Emmys, a George Foster Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia
          Award, a George Polk Award, the Eric Barnouw Award of the
          Organization of American Historians and an American Film
          Festival Red Ribbon.

          Day & time: check with your local PBS station
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