The Vietnam War

This website hosts about 48 programs related to the Vietnam War. Most of these programs were recorded during the American upheaval over the war, in the mid-to-late 1960s. This was at the peak of controversy and protest. One of the programs focused on this war is selected randomly on the right side of this page. On this site, you’ll many key speakers represented, mostly as guests on radio programs.

To find all the Vietnam-related programs, go to our Audio Programs page and use the search system drop-downs:

Subject: look for Vietnam, War, or any other subject you wish.

Selected Speakers: find speakers like Andy Borg, Daniel Brewster, William Corson, Sanford Gottlieb, F. Edward Hebert, Hubert Humphrey, Pat Kawood, James Keys, Dean Kelly, David Kraslow. James Lawson, William Lederer, Stephen Ledogar, Stuart Loory, Don Luce, and John Mecklin.

Title: type in the word, Vietnam.

Description: type in the word, Vietnam.

The Vietnam War, as it was known in the U.S, occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. 

During the course of the Vietnam War, a large segment of the American population came to be opposed to U.S. involvement in South Vietnam. Public opinion steadily turned against the war following 1967 and by 1970 only a third of Americans believed that the U.S. had not made a mistake by sending troops to fight in Vietnam.

Direct U.S. military involvement ended on August 15, 1973. The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

Randomly-chosen Vietnam War-Related Program:

Description: Thomas Emmet Hayden (1939-2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. At the time of this interview, he was co-founder of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He was later director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los Angeles County, California. He is known as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist -- and as former husband of actress Jane Fonda. He led some of the big demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention in 1968. Subjects of this program include the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) on campus, the Selective Service draft system, grounds for being a conscientious objector, ways in which the country decides to go to war, and the Columbia University student strike. Hayden says student activists have to resort to public demonstrations in order for people to hear their concerns and issues. He says universities are involved in education students to be part of the system, while the schools are involved in developing war-related technology. His thought on Law and Order is that it is not good if it is simply code language for preventing social change. Hayden served in the California Senate from 1992-2000.

Length: 59:10
Recording Date: November 18, 1968
Recorded at: WRVR Radio Studio, New York City