The Vietnam Center and Archive: Search Results

THE VIETNAM CENTER AND ARCHIVE
Texas Tech University

Why does the Vietnam Center and Archive Website look like this?

Search Results

Records 1-1 of 1 records

Item Number: 999VI2468 (Record 417104)

Title:

Texas Tech University Vietnam Center Sixth Triennial Symposium: Session 1 - The Media and the Tet Offensive - March 13, 2008

Language/Translation:

English

# of Media:

Date:

13 March 2008

Collection:

Vietnam Center Collection

Media Type:

Moving Image (Mini DV)

Format:

Format not listed

Length:

93:34 min/sec

Texas Tech University Vietnam Center and Archive

Description:

The Media and the Tet Offensive Panelists: Mr. Barry Zorthian (USIA, JUSPAO, Saigon); Mr. Don North (war correspondent, ABC and NBC News), Dr. William Hammond (Historian, US Army Center of Military History). Moderated by Mr. Richard Pyle (AP). Barry Zorthian addresses the coverage of the Tet Offensive by the international media and whether it adversely affected the war effort. Dr. Hammond addresses the effects of the media's coverage of Tet on American public opinion and asks what America would be like without a free press. Don North recounts his witnessing first hand the Viet Cong attack on the American Embassy in Saigon.

View Item:

Citation:

Texas Tech University Vietnam Center Sixth Triennial Symposium: Session 1 - The Media and the Tet Offensive, 13 March 2008, Vietnam Center Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 18 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=999VI2468>.