Need help finding an old picture from Vietnam!!!

[Lovecrafty]

I'm looking for the infamous picture of the Marine lighting the hut during one of the "Zippo Raids" back in Vietnam. It was originally aired on CBS in 1965 and was said to turn the tide against the war back home. I've been arguing with some Freepers that US Soldiers really did torch some villages in Vietnam, but they have been in denial and asking for proof. I've done some extensive Google searching but couldn't find that particular image. I believe the incident was in the village of Cam Ne..Any help locating this image off the web would be much appreciated..or better yet posted here! Thanks!

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Though you were going to ask for a picture of *

was going to say it will be impossible to find one :)

[madrchsod]

2. well it`s pretty obvious that these

people were either babies/ children or not even born yet. i saw the pictures and no rewriting of history by the freepers is going to change the fact that these images are burned into a whole generation of people who grew up during this war and fought in it and protested it.
sorry- i can`t help other than looking for back issues of time/newsweek/life/ and others if they have archives of photos from that period

[cindyw]

3. Is this it?

http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/notes/obedience/sld007.htm

[Lovecrafty]

5. It will work...but the one I remember had a guy with a Zippo lighter.

I really would like to find that one! I APPRECIATE the link, however. It will work!

[Erika]

4. Try Asking CBS

They did a special on Lieutenant Calley during which they showed many films of many Nam villages being torched by our troops. The horrific films of that time showed Vietnames villagers lying dead in ditches and childrens bodies dead and maimed. At our hands.

That is what Kerry wanted to stop. While Bush drank beer and ate tacos in Alabama and Cheney was too busy with "other priorities".

[SoCalDem]

6. Here's an archive of newsreel footage and other video

http://www.footage.net/cgi-bin/FN/director.cgi


maybe you will fdind something there

[F.Gordon]

7. It's an urban legend

Ummm.....how old are these "freepers"?



:eyes:

[Melinda]

8. Village of Cam Ne

Fred Friendly and Walter Cronkite in New York watched the film of U.S. Marines setting fire to Vietnamese dwellings, watched the burning of Cam Ne. They were shocked by the film images, but felt it was so important they could not fail to broadcast it. CBS called Safer again to ensure they had the proper context of the story. This was confirmed. The film was broadcast on CBS Evening News on August 5, 1965.

http://www.thehistorynet.com/vn/blwhathappenedatcamne/

I can't find a photo of that event, how about a little napalm instead?

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/ng2.htm

[TahitiNut]

9. Burning the villages was SOP ...

... when the people were evacuated to other areas. It was intended to keep them out of VC hands. One of the things that must be recalled was that the ARVN and South Viet Nam political leadership had its own 'influence' on the practices. Right or wrong, the political clusterf*ck had a lot to do with the insanity.

Here're some (provocative?) images ...

[Baja Margie]

10. Well, this site might make you bristle,

but it from the perspective of the Marines in the field. Be prepared, they have nothing good to say about John Kerry, but it is the story from their viewpoint. It's pretty sad, they are really lost souls. But, that's what the Marines do, get 'em young and brainwash them. This is difficult for me, my dad was a China Marine. Well, at least you'll know how the "other side" feels. Kind of spooky. After you have clicked the link, go to search and type in Cam Ne.



Cam Ne, 1965:



http://www.3rdmarines.net