[BEST OF] The Vietnam War
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Nov 2018
Historian David Parsons joins Breht for a deep and wide-ranging conversation on the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese National Liberation struggle, unforgivable American imperial war crimes, historical memory, and much more!
David Parsons is an author, historian, and leftist podcast host of The Nostalgia Trap.
Find The Nostalgia Trap here: https://nostalgiatrap.com/
Find his book, Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era here: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469632018/dangerous-grounds/
The Documentary used for most of the clips in the show is "Hearts and Minds" (1974)
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| 0:00.0 | My eight-year-old daughter was killed. |
| 0:05.0 | And my three-year-old son. |
| 0:09.0 | Nixon, murderer of surveillance. |
| 0:15.0 | What have I done to Nixon so that he comes here to bomb my country? |
| 0:24.0 | My daughter died right here. |
| 0:27.8 | She was feeding the pigs. |
| 0:30.3 | She was so sweet. |
| 0:33.9 | She is dead. |
| 0:35.5 | The pigs are alive. |
| 0:38.3 | My mother and my children took shelter here. |
| 0:42.3 | Here they died. |
| 0:45.3 | The planes came from over there. |
| 0:51.3 | No targets here. Only rice fields and houses. |
| 0:57.0 | I'll give you my daughter's beautiful shirt. |
| 1:02.0 | Take it back to the United States. |
| 1:06.0 | Tell them what happened here. |
| 1:08.0 | My daughter is dead. She will never wear the shirt again. |
| 1:17.6 | Throw this shirt in Nixon's face. Tell him she was only a little school girl. |
| 1:34.1 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm your host and Comrade Bred O'Shea. |
| 1:39.6 | And today our episode is on the Vietnam War with author and historian David Parsons. |
| 1:44.6 | The clips we used throughout this episode are mostly from the documentary Hearts and Minds, |
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