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CHAPTER 3 ENDNOTES
1. "Salinger Tells How Kennedy Tried to Hide Vietnam Build-Up," U.S. News
and World Report, Sept. 12, 1966, p. 103.
2. "Uncensored Press Failed Viet Test, General Says ., " The Washington
Post, April 23, 1978. The US decision not to censor media reporting
from Vietnam was made early in 1965 at a public affairs conference in
Hawaii. Public affairs officials from the Departments of State and
Defense participated together with information officers from PACOM and
MACV.
3. Godfrey Hodgson, America In Our Time (New York: Vintage Books,
1976), p. 140.
4. "Television News and. the Vietnam War," panel discussion at the Smithsonian,
speakers Braestrup, Lichty, Fouhy, and Gouralski. April 2,
1979. of the Tape Smithsonian recorded Institution. in part by BOM Tape study 1 Side tean! 1. members with permission
Morley Safer's film story of US Marines burning the homes of villagers
at Cam Ne (CBS News, Aug. 5, 1965) was a watershed in T.V. coverage.
The film introduced the new application of T.V. coverage with recorded
sound, thereby allowing the audiences to experience a kind of cinema.
Safer's report was the first dramatic example of participatory journalism.
5. Ibid., Side 2, Tape 2.
6. Dr. Willipm H.1. Hammond, Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of
Military History, Interview by BDM on June 28, 1979.
7. Ben H. Bagdikian, The Effete Conspiracy (New York: Harper & Row,
1912), p. 10.
8. Hodgson, p. 138,
9. Bagdikian, p. 10.
10. Hodgson, p. 139.
i ]. Bagcikian, pp. 146-148.
•- ~13. Ibid., p. 147.
12. Hodgson, p. 144. Documentaries such as Freed's studies of the Cold
War and, in 1933, Murrow's classic Harvest of Shame, were the first
fruits of this public relationb effort.
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