Vietnam 1964
Fifty years ago, the American media aided the Johnson administration in leading the nation into war under false pretenses. Our media therefore bears some of the responsibility for a needless war which killed 58,000 Americans and over a million Vietnamese. (The photo below shows some of the victims of the infamous 1968 My Lai massacre, which resulted in Lt. William Calley’s court martial and conviction.)
In 1964, the media unquestioningly repeated the Johnson administration’s claim that on August 2, and again on August 4, American destroyers, innocently cruising in the Tonkin Gulf, suffered two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese PT …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
