Reporting Vietnam
Subtitle: American Journalism 1959-1975 (Library of America)
Contributors: Milton J. Bates (Compiler); Lawrence Lichty (Compiler); Paul Miles (Compiler); Ronald H. Spector (Compiler); Marilyn Young (Compiler)
Publisher: Library of America
Published: May 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 830
ISBN-13: 9781883011901
Subjects: Other prose: from c 1900 -; Press & journalism; Military History - Vietnam Conflict; History; American Journalism; United States; History - Military / War; Military - Vietnam War; History: World; Vietnam; History / Military / Vietnam War; Press coverage; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Journalism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; 20th century
First sentence: A DRENCHING, predawn dew had settled over the sloping steel deck of the landing craft, and I slipped several times climbing aboard in the inky darkness.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
pagenum: xiii; label: Introduction
pagenum: xv; label: Time
pagenum: 1
title: Death at Intermission Time: First U.S. Advisers Killed in South Vietnam: July 1959; label: Malcolm W. Browne
pagenum: 3
title: Paddy War: Guerrilla War in the Mekong Delta: December 1961; label: Homer Bigart
pagenum: 11
title: A "Very Real War" in Vietnam and the Deep U.S. Commitment: Increasing American Involvement: February 1962; label: Bernard B. Fall
pagenum: 18
title: Master of the Red Jab: Interview with Ho Chi Minh: July 1962; label: Malcolm W. Browne
pagenum: 29
title: "He Was Sitting in the Center of a Column of Flame": Suicide in Saigon: June 1963; label: Stanley Karnow
pagenum: 36
title: The Fall of the House of Ngo Dinh: Overthrow of Diem: November 1963; label: David Halberstam
pagenum: 50
title: "They Can Win a War If Someone Shows Them How": Profile of John Paul Vann: 1962-1964; label: U.S. News & World Report
pagenum: 66
title: "We Are Losing, Morale Is  Bad... If They'd Give Us Good Planes...": A Pilot's Letters Home: November 1963-March 1964; label: Meg Greenfield
pagenum: 76
title: After the Washington Teach-in: Controversy Over the War Intensifies: May 1965; label: Don Moser
pagenum: 84
title: Eight Dedicated Men Marked for Death: Struggle for Loc Dien: Summer 1965; label: Bernard B. Fall
pagenum: 106
title: Vietnam Blitz: A Report on the Impersonal War: American Buildup: September 1965; label: Specialist 4/C Jack P. Smith
pagenum: 118
title: Death in the Ia Drang Valley: "Men All Around Me Were Screaming": November 1965; label: Henry F. Graff
pagenum: 133
title: Teach-in on Vietnam By... The President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State: The Administration Defends Its Policies: February 1966; label: Ward S. Just
pagenum: 150
title: Reconnaissance: Combat in the Central Highlands: June 1966; label: Neil Sheehan
pagenum: 169
title: Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk: Veteran Reporter Reassesses the War: October 1966; label: Bernard B. Fall
pagenum: 187
title: "Unrepentant, Unyielding": An Interview with Viet Cong Prisoners: U.S. Offensive in the Iron Triangle: January 1967; label: Jonathan Randal
pagenum: 200
title: U.S. Marines Seize 3d Hill in Vietnam After 12-Day Push: Khe Sanh Hill Fights: May 1967; label: Jonathan Schell
pagenum: 204
title: from The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin: Southern I Corps: August 1967; label: Michael J. Arlen
pagenum: 235
title: A Day in the Life: A TV Crew at Con Thien: September 1967; label: Norman Mailer
pagenum: 251
title: from The Armies of the Night: The March on the Pentagon: October 1967; label: Peter Arnett
pagenum: 267
title: Hill 875: Battle of Dak To: November 1967; label: Tom Wolfe
pagenum: 270
title: The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie: Air War Over North Vietnam: December 1967; label: Don Oberdorfer
pagenum: 302
title: from Tet!: The Viet Cong in Hue: January-February 1968; label: Michael Herr
pagenum: 314
title: from Dispatches-. "Hell Sucks": Hue: February 1968; label: John T. Wheeler
pagenum: 327
title: Life in the V Ring: Khe Sanh Under Siege: February 1968; label: Mary McCarthy
pagenum: 332
title: Hanoi—March 1968: An American in North Vietnam: March-April 1968; label: Thomas A. Johnson
pagenum: 349
title: The U.S. Negro in Vietnam: Black Servicemen and the War: 1968; label: Kevin Buckley
pagenum: 362
title: A Small Contribution: Firefight Near Loc Ninh: October 1968; label: Zalin Grant
pagenum: 365
title: "We Lived for a Time Like Dogs": American POWs in a Jungle Camp: July 1968-January 1969; label: Jeffrey Blankfort
pagenum: 386
title: Our Town: The War Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio: A Small Town Mourns Its Dead: Spring 1969; label: Wallace Terry
pagenum: 396
title: Black Power in Viet Nam: Racial Tensions in the Military: September 1969; label: Peter R. Kann
pagenum: 401
title: A Long, Leisurely Drive Through Mekong Delta Tells Much of the War: Pacification and Vietnamization: November 1969; label: Seymour M. Hersh
pagenum: 413
title: The My Lai Massacre: An Atrocity Is Uncovered: November 1969; label: T. D. Allman
pagenum: 428
title: Massacre at Takeo Cambodia: April 1970; label: James A. Michener
pagenum: 435
title: from Kent State: What Happened and Why: Kent, Ohio: May 1970; label: Stewart Alsop
pagenum: 463
title: The American Class System: Fairness and the Draft: 1970; label: John Saar
pagenum: 467
title: You Can't Just Hand Out Orders: An Army of Reluctant Draftees: October 1970; label: Doris Kearns
pagenum: 475
title: from Who Was Lyndon Baines Johnson?: LBJ Remembers Vietnam: 1970; label: John E. Woodruff
pagenum: 495
title: The Meo of Laos: The Hmong: February 1971; label: Gloria Emerson
pagenum: 509
title: Copters Return from Laos with the Dead: "A small despairing scene": February 1971; label: Gloria Emerson
pagenum: 512
title: Spirit of Saigon's Army Shaken in Laos: "They all became dust": March 1971; label: Karl Fleming
pagenum: 517
title: The Homecoming of Chris Mead: A Veteran Returns: March 1971; label: Donald Kirk
pagenum: 522
title: Who Wants To Be the Last American Killed in Vietnam?: Troop Withdrawals and Morale: August 1971; label: Tom Buckley
pagenum: 540
title: Portrait of an Aging Despot: A Visit with General Loan: 1971; label: Robert Shaplen
pagenum: 552
title: We Have Always Survived: Life in Saigon: Spring 1972; label: John Saar
pagenum: 606
title: Report from the Inferno: The North Vietnamese Offensive: April 1972; label: Peter Braestrup
pagenum: 613
title: The South Vietnamese Army: Commanders and Soldiers: July 1972; label: Joseph Kraft
pagenum: 629
title: Letter from Hanoi: "We have been fighting eleven centuries": July 1972; label: Hunter S. Thompson
pagenum: 644
title: from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72: Protests at the Republican Convention, Miami: August 1972; label: Fox Butterfield
pagenum: 654
title: Who Was This Enemy?: Writings by North Vietnamese Soldiers: 1973; label: Arnold R. Isaacs
pagenum: 666
title: War Lingers in Hamlets as Cease-Fire Hour Passes: After the Cease-Fire: January 1973; label: John S. McCain III
pagenum: 670
title: How the POW's Fought Back: A Navy Pilot in North Vietnam: October 1967-March 1973; label: Sydney H. Schanberg
pagenum: 700
title: Bomb Error Leaves Havoc in Neak Luong: War in Cambodia: August 1973; label: Donald Kirk
pagenum: 704
title: "I watched them saw him 3 days": A Khmer Rouge Execution: July 1974; label: Paul Vogle
pagenum: 706
title: A Flight Into Hell: The Fall of Danang: March 1975; label: Le Kim Dinh
pagenum: 710
title: For Those Who Flee, Life Is "Hell on Earth": Refugees at Cam Ranh Bay: April 1975; label: Sydney H. Schanberg
pagenum: 713
title: The Fall of Phnom Penh: Cambodia: April-May 1975; label: Philip Caputo
pagenum: 736
title: "Running Again—the Last Retreat": Refugees on "the street without joy": April 1975; label: Keyes Beech
pagenum: 740
title: We Clawed for Our Lives!: A Reporter Flees Saigon: April 1975; label: Bob Tamarktn
pagenum: 746
title: Diary of S. Viet's Last Hours: The Evacuation Ends: April 1975; label: Malcolm W. Browne
pagenum: 755
title: Tenderness, Hatred and Grief Mark Saigon's Last Days: "Vietnam's black fate": May 1975; label: Maps
pagenum: 761; label: Chronology, 1940-1995
pagenum: 765; label: Biographical Notes
pagenum: 794; label: Note on the Texts
pagenum: 808; label: Notes
pagenum: 813; label: Glossary of Military Terms
pagenum: 829; label: Index
pagenum: 835