Title: Why Vietnam? /
Authors: United States.; Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Publisher: The Dept.,
Year: 1965
Subjects: Johnson, Lyndon B.; Cold War in motion pictures.; Presidents Messages; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States; Propaganda.; United States History
Abstract: In an address to the American public, President Lyndon B. Johnson explains United States policy in South Vietnam and the importance of the Vietnam War to American interests. Johnson presents the official U.S. government rationale used in 1965 to justify US involvement in Vietnam citing the "domino theory" and the idea that "aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed." Opening with a speech intending to enlist support for the war, the film shifts to a series of images equating the threat of Communism with that of the Third Reich.