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It Was Destroying Their Lives
Q: What was your impression of the average Vietnamese’s understanding of the war?
Their understanding of what the war was about was it was destroying their lives, it was destroying their villages, and it was destroying in some ways their culture. The French had withdrawn but now they had all of these Americans. They had reached a truce with the communists in 1954, but now this war was almost 20 years on and the fighting was worse than ever.
What they understood was their sons would be taken from them and they might never see them again. What they understood was the economy was devastated and they were living off the American dole. This was not a popular war among the Vietnamese. Now, did most of them want to become subject to communist rule? No. They had seen what had happened in North Vietnam under the Vietnamese Workers Party, it became increasingly Stalinist.
Object Description
| Profile of | Michael Parks |
| Title | A Life Apart from Vietnam |
| Profile bio | The Wrong War |
| Profiler bio | Michael Parks is a journalist originally from Detroit, Michigan, whose work as a foreign correspondent took him to Saigon, Moscow, Johannesburg, Beijing, and Hong Kong. He received a Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1987 for his coverage of South Africa. He worked as the editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years and helped launch the “Reading by 9” program to help children read at grade level. Parks has been a member of the USC community since 2000 and was director of the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism from 2002 until 2008. He was appointed interim director at Annenberg in June of 2013. |
| Subject | Kaitlyn Mullin is a junior and a double major in Biological Sciences and Print and Digital Journalism. Renzhi Yu is a senior and a double major in Business Administration and Accounting. Sofia Shoffner is a sophomore and a double major in International Relations and Spanish. Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick is a sophomore and an International Relations major. |
| Interviewee |
Vietnam Vietnam war news communism viet cong draft |
| Profiled by | Mullin, Kaitlyn; Yu, Renzhi; Schoffner, Sofia; Fitzpatrick, Jalen Cope |
| Profile date | 2014-04-12 |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Detroit; Saigon; Ho Chi Minh City; Hanoi; Moscow; Johannesburg; Beijing; Hong Kong |
| Geographic subject (county) | Wayne |
| Geographic subject (state) | Michigan; Kentucky |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA; Vietnam; Russia; South Africa; China; Korea, Laos |
| Coverage date | 1972 |
| Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/michael-parks/ |
| Type |
images video |
| Format | 1 image; 8 video files; 8 transcripts |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
| Filename | parksmichaels |
Description
| Profile of | Michael Parks |
| Title | It was Destroying Their Lives |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | parksmichaels-vid2_tr2.pdf |
| Full text | It Was Destroying Their Lives Q: What was your impression of the average Vietnamese’s understanding of the war? Their understanding of what the war was about was it was destroying their lives, it was destroying their villages, and it was destroying in some ways their culture. The French had withdrawn but now they had all of these Americans. They had reached a truce with the communists in 1954, but now this war was almost 20 years on and the fighting was worse than ever. What they understood was their sons would be taken from them and they might never see them again. What they understood was the economy was devastated and they were living off the American dole. This was not a popular war among the Vietnamese. Now, did most of them want to become subject to communist rule? No. They had seen what had happened in North Vietnam under the Vietnamese Workers Party, it became increasingly Stalinist. |
| Archival file | Volume6/parksmichaels-vid2_tr2.pdf |
