Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Mar. 2, 1965, at 28:50)

(Tuesday, March 2, 1965, 3:45 p.m. ICT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Operation Rolling Thunder, a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign, began today as more than 100 U.S. jet aircraft bombed a North Vietnamese munitions depot and also provided air cover for 60 South Vietnamese bombers striking at a Communist naval base.

Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - America's Enemy [5/11]' (Mar. 2, 1965, at 28:14)

Video: 'American Experience - Lyndon B. Johnson (PBS Documentary)' (Mar. 2, 1965, at 6:41)