Susan Carruthers

And of course, by 1967, 1968 is a staple of the nightly news on television.

We might see Vietnamese peasants in obvious anguish, distressed, grieving.

But mostly the Vietnamese who featured in American news broadcasts were silent.

— This is a war that begins in a very sort of slow way that initially was largely ignored.

And more and more thousands of American men are sent there.

And of course, by 1967, 1968 is a staple of the nightly news on television.

We might see Vietnamese peasants in obvious anguish, distressed, grieving.

But mostly the Vietnamese who featured in American news broadcasts were silent.

So many Americans are not only opposed to the war, but vehemently out on the streets.

The United States was there to try to prop up the League at South Vietnam.

And that changes only really after the consensus on Capitol Hill itself has started to break down.

Editors are more willing to sort of push the boundaries of the sayable, the showable.