The Vietnam War

This website hosts about 49 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: Father Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016) was a Jesuit priest, an activist against the Vietnam War, and poet. At the time of this program, he was the assistant director of the Cornell University United Religious Work, the umbrella organization for all religious groups on campus. Daniel Berrigan and his brother Philip, along with seven other Catholic protesters, used homemade napalm to destroy 378 draft files in the parking lot of the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board on May 17, 1968. Berrigan was arrested and, in a trial following this program, was sentenced to three years in prison. He was released in 1972. Discussions in this program dealt with Berrigan's concern over the draft and the war, and whether it is right to act illegally to oppose the draft. Berrigan also spoke of his visit to Hanoi, in North Vietnam. Because of phone line problems, Berrigan wasn't on the line for the first 11 minutes and the volume of his phone line remained low.

Length: 57:23
Recording Date: October 2, 1968
Recorded at: WRVR Radio Studio, New York City