The American War
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Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”
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Posted Sep 19, 2017 at 12:00 am.
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It’s easy to say now that the Vietnam War was always a doomed endeavor. But Americans who went to fight in Vietnam thought they were answering John F. Kennedy’s call to public service. Alyssa asks Ken Burns how our ideals went so wrong.
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