PBS on now: Two Days in October - A Look Back to 1967

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Two Days in October - A Look Back to 1967
PBS is airing a documentary tomorrow night, October 17th that is well worth watching: Two Days in October.

I received a screening copy of the documentary the other day and finally sat down to watch it last night. It’s hard not to reflect on the parallels of the what is happening now in our country and Iraq when watching Two Days in October. For all of us who question why we are in Iraq and the role of propaganda in our government and and our media, it’s a compelling look at striking similarities.

Some stayed. Some went. All fought.

In October 1967, history turned a corner. In a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control, marking the first time that a campus anti-war demonstration had turned violent.

American Experience presents Two Days in October, based on the book They Marched Into Sunlight by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss. From director Robert Kenner (War Letters, Influenza 1918, John Brown’s Holy War), this moving film examines the critical events that took place in the turbulent fall of 1967.

The emotionally wrenching parallel stories are told by the people whose lives were irrevocably changed by what happened — American and Viet Cong soldiers, relatives of men killed in battle, protesting students, police officers, and university faculty and administrators. Collectively, their words speak to the heartbreak caused by the war and the stark division it wrought on the home front. “Nearly forty years later, it’s obvious that the pain lies just below the surface for those who were involved,” says Kenner. “They’re still affected by those two days.”

One of the aspects of the film that struck me, was the accounts by the soldiers who were in the battle recounted in the documentary.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Really good so far.

And it's deja-vu all over again... Tune in, everybody. Worth watching.

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2. I wonder if Feingold was the U of Wisconsin at this time

He went to Wisconsin, I wonder if he was a student there during this time.

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3. Did a little research...nope

Feingold's education background
-- Harvard University Law School, Juris Doctor with Honors, 1979
-- Rhodes Scholar, Final Honours School of Jurisprudence, Magdalen College, Oxford University, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, 1977
-- University of Wisconsin - Madison, Phi Beta Kappa, Bachelor of Arts with Honors, 1975
-- Janesville Craig High School, Janesville, Wisconsin, 1971

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4. No, but I think Cheney was

I read the book and I seem to remember that being mentioned.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Cheney went to the University of Wyoming, not Wisconsin.

I can't imagine him at Madison in 1967.

[finecraft]

6. Yes he was there 1966-1968

He was working on his doctorate degree.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I stand corrected. Looks like he never finished it.

Interesting that his studies at the U. of Wis. does not appear in his official bio.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/vpbio.html

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10. Lynne went there too

and I think she did get her PhD in British Literature. Maybe that's why she writes such good novels :evilgrin:

[Kolesar]

7. That campus rout was disgusting

It's people like us that have to stop this shit in the 21st century.

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8. "They Marched into Sunlight" is an excellent book

Great reading and tightly researched.

[Kolesar]

11. David Maraniss ... eom

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12. F*** david mOraniss

he's part of the herd of "respectable" journalists who helped bring upon the scourge of the Bush junta with his BS coverage of Clinton, helping provide the fodder which the likes of Barbara Comstock, Roger Ailes, and all the rest of the pugop propagandists used to smear Gore by association

may he rot with the rest of his his journalistic enablers

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