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114. Ibid., p. 141.
15. By January 1968 there were nearly 500 newsmen and newswomen of varying
nationalities in Vietnar. Of these, Americans numbered about one
hundred and '.ighty.
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16. Peter Braestrup in a letter to BDM on "The F..2dia and the Vietnam War,"
14 September 1979. Mr. Braestrup was associated with the New York
Times from 1960 to 1968 as a reporter, editor, and Bangkok Bureau
Chief. He was with The Washington Post as Saigon Bureau Chief
(1968-69 and 1972), covering the Pentagon and Capitol Hill in 1970-71
for the Post.
17. Ben H. Bagdikian, "Oracles and Their Audiences," Columbia Journalism
Review, Winter, 1967, p. 23.
18. Ibid.
19. Bagdikian, The Effete Conspiracy, pp. 97-100.
Bagdikian describes the impact the president achieved in a typical
television address of 1962 which was viewed by approximately 35
million Americans. Parts of his speech circumscribed by criticism
appeared in 312 morning papers with 24 million readers the next day.
20. "Salinger Tells How Kennedy . . .," U.S. News and World Report, p. 103.
21. P. Knightley, Ihe First Casualty (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1975), p. 375.
22. The advisor, LTC John Paul Vann, was serving as the senior US Army
Advisor in II CTZ in 1963. He returned to RVN in 1965 in a civilian
capacity initially with USAID and finally with CORDS until his death
in a helicopter crash in 1972. The occasion of the T¢mark on
"barbecues" was his address to a group of scholars from trie School of
International Studies, University of Denver, on June 7, 1966. His
remarks were tape recorded by Professor Vincent Davis who maJe the
tape available to BDM for purposes of this study.
23. Gay Le Roy Werner, "The Credibility Gap - 1966. Prestige Gatekeepers
View Government Handling of Vietnam Information" (Masters Thesis,
University of Wisconsin, 1967), pp. 31-32.
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