Johnson: anti-war movements Flashcards
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Anti-War movements under Johnson
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- [rotests against V war in San Fransisco, Boston, Madison, and Seattle in 1964 led by students from progressive labor party and the Young Socialist Alliance
- 12th May: young men in New York had a draft cad burning in protest - led to congress criminalising this act
- 1965: SDS organised ‘teach-in’ at uni of Nichigan
- 1965: norman morrison (father of 3) stood outside Robert McNamara;s office in pentagon and burnt himself to death in protest, with youngest baby daughter sat in front of him = caused international meida attention and shock
- crowds chanted ‘hey hey LBJ! how many kids did you kill today?’
- october 1967: largest rally held in washington by protest groups, saw 70,000 activisrts, 625 arrests
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Role of media in Vietnam and anti-war attitudes
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- 1968: 100M TV sets sold in US, 24% had coloured TVs
- more focus on televised events
- imagery of Vietnam came out exposing the severity and brutality of the war to americans - shifted perspective and lost alot of support
