In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure the effect of relentless U.S. bombing on their morale. Yet despite a wealth of great data, even the leaders of the study couldn’t agree on what it meant.
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06/23/16 • 41 min
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Revisionist History - Saigon, 1965
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Pushkin. After we got married, we got an apartment on Hibaichung, near the Attending Market. It's not the best part of town, but not the worst either. Very lively, bustling, noisy area. That's My Elliot. She lives outside of Los Angeles now, a graceful, elegant, middle aged woman. She's talking about her life in Saigon in the early nineteen sixties, the first days of the Vietnam War. I had an apartment of my own. You know, life couldn't have been
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