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The Mylai Massacre
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Item Title The Mylai Massacre
Guest Bennett, John Coleman (1902-1995)
Guest Frankel, Charles (1917-1979)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJanuary 15, 1970
Description

A serious, though sometimes heated, discussion that begins with who bears responsibility for the Mylai massacre (JCB: "Now I do also believe that if you get American troops into a long and indefinite war, going on for years and years in a strange country where they don't understand people, where they can't communicate ... if you search and destroy, and, worst of all, if you are always surrounded by people of whom you can't be sure whether they're your friends or your enemies ... statistically you've got to expect a certain number of people to break loose and do something like this") but goes on to questions such as, Was the attack on Hiroshima launched in cold blood? Where did the word "gook" originate? (CF: "We used it in World War II, against the enemy." WFB: "Did we?" CF: "Well, where I was.... We talked-" WFB: "Surely not you?" CF: "Well, yes, surely me too. If I had said 'Japanese' none of the fellows I was with would know what in the devil I meant") and (from Mr. Frankel) "Aren't both you people sort of forgetting the Hundred Years War?"

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatMoving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 188
Record Number80040.188
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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