Category Archives: Vietnam War

President Nixon makes surprise pre-dawn visit to Lincoln Memorial, chats with war protesters 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 9 1970)

1970s, Cold War, U.S. Presidents, Vietnam War


Video: 'Nixon at the Lincoln Memorial - The Real Story | This is the President'

(Saturday, May 9, 1970, 4:58-5:55 a.m. EDT; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Hours before a large anti-war protest began at Washington, D.C., U.S. President Nixon surprised most of his Secret Service bodyguards and about eight demonstrators by walking in to the Lincoln Memorial this morning. Continue reading President Nixon makes surprise pre-dawn visit to Lincoln Memorial, chats with war protesters 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 9 1970) →

President Nixon says he shares goal of Vietnam War dissenters 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 8 1970)

1970s, Cold War, Television 1970s, U.S. Presidents, Vietnam War


Video: 'President Richard Nixon's Press Conference on Increased American Troops in Cambodia'

(Friday, May 8, 1970, 10:00-10:33 p.m. EDT; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Strongly defending the United States troop movement into Cambodia, which has evoked a storm of protest by students and others throughout the country, President Richard Nixon said tonight that the operation would win six to eight months of time for the further training of South Vietnamese forces and thus shorten the war for the Americans. Continue reading President Nixon says he shares goal of Vietnam War dissenters 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 8 1970) →

Construction workers attack anti-war demonstrators in New York City 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 8 1970)

1970s, Cold War, Vietnam War


Video: 'Conservative Counterrevolution: Hard Hat Riots and Attica'

(Friday, May 8, 1970, 11:55 a.m. EDT; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — A group of 200 construction workers, mobilized by the New York State AFL-CIO, attacked a group of some 1,000 college and high school students and others protesting the Vietnam War today outside of New York City Hall, near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street. Continue reading Construction workers attack anti-war demonstrators in New York City 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 8 1970) →

4 unarmed Kent State students shot to death during anti-war protest 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 4 1970)

1970s, Cold War, Vietnam War


Video: 'National Geographic: Kent State 1'

(Monday, May 4, 1970, 12:24 p.m. EDT; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Four unarmed students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, two of them women, were shot to death this afternoon by Ohio National Guardsmen during a mass protest against the bombing of neutral Cambodia by U.S. military forces. Continue reading 4 unarmed Kent State students shot to death during anti-war protest 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 4 1970) →

Anti-war demonstrators set Kent State’s ROTC building on fire 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 2 1970)

1970s, Cold War, Vietnam War


Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Homefront USA [10/11]' (Cambodia Campaign at 45:43)

(Saturday, May 2, 1970, firefighters arrived shortly after 8:45 p.m. EDT; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — A group of 600 protesters opposed to President Richard Nixon’s decision to send U.S. troops into Cambodia set fire to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) building on the Kent State University (KSU) campus tonight in Kent, Ohio. Continue reading Anti-war demonstrators set Kent State’s ROTC building on fire 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 2 1970) →

Nixon puts ‘bums’ label on some college radicals 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 1 1970)

1970s, Cold War, U.S. Presidents, Vietnam War


Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Homefront USA [10/11]' (May 1, 1970, at 46:06)

(Friday, May 1, 1970, 8:41-10:25 a.m. EDT; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President Richard Nixon today referred to some campus radicals who violently oppose his Vietnam policies as “bums” and, in contrast, he said American soldiers were “the greatest.” Continue reading Nixon puts ‘bums’ label on some college radicals 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 1 1970) →

Nixon announces decision to send combat forces to Cambodia 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 30 1970)

1970s, Cold War, U.S. Presidents, Vietnam War


Video: 'President Richard Nixon Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia, April 30, 1970'

(Thursday, April 30, 1970, 9:00 p.m. EDT; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — In a sharp departure from the previous conduct of war in Southeast Asia, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced tonight that he was sending United States combat troops into Cambodia for the first time. Continue reading Nixon announces decision to send combat forces to Cambodia 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 30 1970) →

U.S. troops drive into Cambodia to crush enemy sanctuaries 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 1 1970)

1970s, Cold War, U.S. Presidents, Vietnam War


Video: 'Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War - The Village War [10/13]' (Cambodia Campaign at 33:17)

(Friday, May 1, 1970, 7:30 a.m. Saigon Standard Time; during the Cambodian Campaign, part of the Vietnam War, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Several thousand U.S. soldiers moved across the border from South Vietnam to Cambodia’s Kampong Cham Province this morning, expanding the American involvement in the Vietnam War to attack North Vietnamese Army (NVA) enclaves in an area known as the Fishhook. Continue reading U.S. troops drive into Cambodia to crush enemy sanctuaries 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 1 1970) →

Gladys Knight & the Pips perform on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 29 1970)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s, Television 1970s, Vietnam War


Video: 'GRADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS / I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GROPEVINE'

(Easter Sunday, March 29, 1970, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EST; during the Vietnam War) — Gladys Knight & the Pips performed “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV variety series The Ed Sullivan Show, filmed earlier this month at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio and Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver to entertain wounded Vietnam veterans. Continue reading Gladys Knight & the Pips perform on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 29 1970) →

Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia ousted by his prime minister 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 18 1970)

1970s, Cold War, Vietnam War


Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Cambodia and Laos [8/11]' (Cambodian coup of 1970 at 18:11)

(Wednesday, March 18, 1970, 1:00 p.m. Indochina Time; during the Cambodian coup of 1970, part of the Cambodian Civil War) — Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Head of State of Cambodia since June 20, 1960, was overthrown today in his absence, Phnom Penh radio announced. Continue reading Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia ousted by his prime minister 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 18 1970) →