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History Unplugged Podcast

Hollywood Hates History, Part 4—The Green Berets (1968)

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

John Wayne was 62 years old when he tried to portray a fit Vietnam War Green Beret colonel, but the obvious age gap isn't the only head scratcher in this film. Released in 1968, the film was Lyndon B. Johnson-approved attempt to shift American opinion on the Vietnam War. Listen to this episode to see if it worked.

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0:47.6

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast. The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,

0:54.1

Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.

1:00.8

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:08.4

All right everyone, welcome back to our series on movies we love and movies we hate based on how

1:13.5

historically accurate or inaccurate they are. Join to my co-host Steve Gwera. Steve, how are you?

1:20.4

I'm great. All right, well we've looked a lot of different movies. We have looked at movies

1:24.4

that we hated, and it's hard not to because the vast majority of movies get things wrong about history.

1:31.6

So I'm getting it pretty right. We're going to look at one that you like, and we'll see how accurate

1:36.3

or inaccurate it is. And that is the green braids. So the Duke John Wayne has fought many times

1:43.6

in World War II. He's fought many times in the Old West. Now he's going to win the Vietnam War

1:48.5

for us. Okay, set this up for us. In this movie the Green Beret came out in 1968, which was a pivotal

1:56.9

year in the Vietnam War, which we will get to in a moment. The broad overview of the movie is the

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