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Interview about Vietnam War

Interview about Vietnam War
Clip: 447912_1_1
Year Shot:
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1118
Original Film: COOPER REEL 8
HD: N/A
Location: USA, Texas
Timecode: -

Unfortunately optical track is not very clear. KTVT reporter interviewing a young man (politician?) about Vietnam soldiers. talks about how the soldiers over there feel that the "people here have let them down" that they are the "forgotten soldiers of the forgotten war." He says that "the beatniks and the beakniks and the peaceniks are getting all the publicity" He suggests that Americans write letters to them over there and tell them what a great job they are doing. He is then asked how the overall morale is and answers "Unbelieveably high, it really was." he says that the biggest morale booster he saw was "when the troops found out that we finally bombed Hanoi...there was cheering, slapping of backs and shaking hands, it was as if somebody's wife just had a baby the way they were running around."