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While there, he also joined a basketball team founded by American deserters of the Vietnam War, the Stockholm Stars. [ 7 ] [ 14 ] In 1977, after President Jimmy Carter signed an executive order granting amnesty to draft evaders of the Vietnam War era, Whitmore returned to the US to meet his daughter for the first time, who was being raised by ...
From Hanoi to Hollywood: the Vietnam War in American film. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-1586-6. Anderegg, Michael A. (1991). Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television. Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-861-2. Hixon, Walter (2000). Historical memory and representations of the Vietnam War. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-3536-9.
In 1984, the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project was founded by Diane Carlson Evans, leading to the creation of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington D.C. in 1993. [112] [113] The Vietnam Women's Memorial is in Constitution Gardens, a park on the National Mall. [114] [115] It honors the American women who served in the Vietnam War. [116]
In “ Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” a six-part docuseries debuting Friday on Apple TV+, Broyles recounts how he was so scared in his first firefight that he lost his voice and had to ...
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le.It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, following Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
In February 1966, Drazba and another nurse, Elizabeth A. Jones, were among the seven American military personnel who died in a helicopter crash northeast of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam, [4] [5] when the helicopter hit electrical lines and burned. [6] Drazba and Jones were the first two American women to die in the Vietnam War.
In the Year of the Pig is an American documentary film directed by Emile de Antonio about American involvement in the Vietnam War. [3] [a] It was released in 1968 while the U.S. was in the middle of its military engagement, and was politically controversial. [4] One year later, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American people of the Vietnam War. It includes American people of the Vietnam War that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.