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Jan 19, 2018 · January 19, 2018 12:00 PM EST. The following is an excerpt from LIFE’s new special edition, 1968: The Year That Changed the World, available in the TIME Shop, on Amazon and at retailers everywhere....
April: U.S. deaths in Vietnam surpass the roughly 33,000 lost in the Korean War. October 15: An estimated two million protesters gather across the U.S. for the largest antiwar march in U.S....
As the Vietnam War esclated, protests grew in strength, some turning violent. They also triggered backlash.
Apr 3, 2019 · Scenes From 50 Years Ago This Spring, When Americans Turned Out to Protest the Vietnam War. In Los Angeles, Boston and New York, students and veterans alike challenged the government’s...
Jun 15, 2020 · Vietnam War Protests at the White House. Lindsay M. Chervinsky White House Historian. On November 1, 1963, a group of military officials overthrew the South Vietnamese government and assassinated President Ngo Dinh Diem after he refused to resign—all with the tacit approval of the John F. Kennedy administration. 1.
Vietnam War protesters in Wichita, Kansas, 1967. The draft, a system of conscription that mainly drew from minorities and lower- and middle-class whites, drove much of the protest after 1965. Conscientious objectors played an active role despite their small numbers.
Nov 13, 2014 · The deaths they were protesting were those of soldiers and civilians in Vietnam. As TIME reported in the Nov. 21, 1969, issue: Disciplined in organization, friendly in mood, [the march] started...
