LBJ Speaks to Students on US Vietnam Presence (1965)

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Due to popular demand (from a frenzy of email received after the podcast of the very first episode of Mr. Projector! : "The Mistakes we Make"), we are proud to present for your viewing pleasure this gem, featured on Friday's show!

Many of you had questions regarding the source of the LBJ portions of the show. Here are some answers:

This clip is from the Hearst-Metronome Publishing Company's amazing Screen News Digest series of films that flooded the American public school system throughout the sixties. The clip has been significantly cut (thanks to our fabulously creative ThinkStream staff) from the original 16mm print entitled "Why Are We in Vietnam?". Oh yeah, and we've added a new soundtrack.

If the subject matter seems uncannily familiar to you, it's none of our doing; it's simply the nature of history.

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• 16mm
• 1960s
• educational
• film
• Lyndon
• Johnson
• Vietnam
• war
• students
• casualties
• stay
• course
• faith
• government
• propaganda

[robfsu13]

Good Lord, you all have no idea what you are talking about. He was actually a decent guy. And no, I am not from Texas. He cannot be painted with the same brush as modern presidents. What did Bush ever do for civil rights or poor people?

[Zobor111]

The reason I won't go to any damned foriegn war as its for profit. Now we're in another war like nam.

[gijoereviews]

@robfsu13 yeah decent,whilst diving to the ground moment before shots rang out in dallas(he knew kennedy was going to be murdered.)

[babajoonthecamel]

I'm curious as to how LBJ and his administration profited from escalating involvement in Vietnam. Not looking for a fight here, just enlightenment.

[MrChipmunk546]

vietnam undeafeted!!!!!!!!!!!

[ExplorerExperience]

I was in country in Naval Intelligence in 1965 and discovered we were not allowed to win the war. We could have won the war at any time but the directives from the White House were to perpetuate the war and every commander in that theater knew it. LBJ and his cronies were personally making millions off the US troops they were having killed. Honoring his memory in any way disgusts me.

Richard Nelson, USN, Vietnam combat veteran 1965/ 1966

[centurion180ad]

What a liar. A Gangster. A demon.

[darius595]

cmon kids sign up for the war and die for my fossilized corpse

[Tonyo1221]

see the evil eye at the end of the video? (2.09)

[thehoaxbuster]

LBJ was okay. Glad he upheld Kennedy's dream of going to the Moon!

[lucirz]

fuck lbj, he just stood at his desk and read dumb speeches while other people are dying b/c of his decisions.

[hobieslug45]

read globeisnotpyramid post Eisenhower warned us about the military complex . we didn't heed his warnings and they engulfed the republican and democrat parties. LBJ was part of the gulf of tonkin lie. so Keri1131982 just because you come from texass do you think bush is also defendable