vietnam

This 1992 interview with Prouty covers the range of Prouty's career. I was aware of his claim that McGeorge Bundy was the one who cancelled the Bay of Pigs bombers, not JFK, but Prouty goes into a lot more detail about the American involvement in Vietnam starting in 1945. That we had actually...

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's new 10 part Vietnam docu has started airing on PBS, and is creating controversy. For one reason is the seeming pivot between the Part 1 background presentation of the colonial basis for the rebellion (seemingly in line with the aims of the American Revolution) to that...