JFK and Vietnam

[Gil Jesus]

How JFK's Vietnam policy was undermined by subordinates, like Averill Harriman and how he used his Ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, as a back channel to the North Vietnamese.

 

 

[Michael Griffith]

This video is sadly misleading, incomplete, and heavily biased. It repeats many of the standard far-left myths about JFK and Vietnam. I notice that not one of the experts interviewed for the video said anything about the massive aid that North Vietnam received from Russia and China, the 100K-plus Chinese troops who were stationed in North Vietnam, the thousands of Russian advisers who were stationed in North Vietnam, the murderous reign of terror that North Vietnam imposed on the south after South Vietnam fell, and the fact that South Vietnam, for all its many faults, was far less repressive and more democratic than North Vietnam, etc., etc.