The Lies That Led America To War In Vietnam
2023
50 min
English
White House Tapes | Real History
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America's involvement in the Vietnam War dramatically intensified in 1964 after the Tonkin Gulf incident, an incident in which the blame falls squarely on the Johnson administration. What would follow would be a series of misinformation and outright lies from the government to mislead the American public into supporting a war that would become increasingly harder to justify.
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Top Cast
Lyndon B. Johnson as Himself (archive footage)
Robert McNamara as Himself (archive footage)
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Dan Snow · Creator
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