Videos
Videos of Each Session:
- Our Vietnam Veterans’ Voices: A Town Hall Meeting
- We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
- Vietnam/U.S. Relations in the 21st Century
- The U.S. Military After Vietnam
- The Fall of Saigon and Its Aftermath
- Making Sense of the War: Protest and Patriotism
- Making Sense of the War: The Role of Media
- Healing the Veteran: The Veteran Writer
- Healing the Veteran: Military Medicine and Civilian Medicine
- Lessons and Legacies: The Last 50 Years
Our Vietnam Veterans' Voices: A Town Hall Meeting
Presented by veterans, a panel shared experiences, past and present, with an opportunity for questions and discussion.
Participants:
We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Scholars present the importance of popular music during the war, how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the world back home, and of coping with the complexities of the war.
Due to the inclusion of music that is copyrighted, the video of this session is unavailable on YouTube; however, the video can be viewed or downloaded.
Participants:
Vietnam/U.S. Relations in the 21st Century
The rebuilding of relations between Vietnam and the U.S. over the past half century.
Participants:
Moderated by:
The U.S. Military After Vietnam
Military experts discuss how the war affected and changed military training and doctrine.
Participants:
Moderated by:
The Fall of Saigon and Its Aftermath
The end of the war and the refugee experience, including how Vietnamese refugees came to settle in Nebraska.
Participants:
Moderated by:
Making Sense of the War: Protest and Patriotism
Panelists discuss how the Vietnam War acted as one of the catalysts of social and political turmoil taking place on the American home front during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Participants:
Moderated by:
Making Sense of the War: The Role of Media
Panelists discuss how the Vietnam War acted as one of the catalysts of social and political turmoil taking place on the American home front during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Journalists explore the crucial role that the media played in shaping perceptions of the war and how the Vietnam war changed journalism.
Participants:
Moderated by:
Healing the Veteran: The Veteran Writer
Poetry and stories written by veterans.
Participants:
Moderated by:
Healing the Veteran: Military Medicine and Civilian Medicine
Poetry and stories written by veterans.
Stories of veteran doctors who turned their experiences in Vietnam into helping civilians and veterans back home.
Participants:
Moderated by:
Lessons and Legacies: The Last 50 Years
Military and media leaders discuss the effect on America’s military and foreign policy, and how decisions made 50 years ago affect military and political policy today.
Participants:
Moderated by:
Broadcast Use Permission or Distribution
- For information on broadcast use permission or other distribution, please email:
- unonews@unomaha.edu.
Our Campus. Otherwise Known as Omaha.
The University of Nebraska does not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and/or political affiliation in its programs, activities, or employment. Learn more about Equity, Access and Diversity.