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The Innocent Die
If your just there and covering it like it’s a ping-pong match or your simply writing the military briefing every day “Giant eight-engine B52 Stratofortresses thundered across the skies of Indochina on Sunday hitting targets in three countries…” That doesn’t tell you, the American citizen, what’s being done in your name. Yes, you have to do certain stories like that that report the battle and report the politics and report the negotiations but you also have to tell people what war does to the ordinary Vietnamese. I’ve covered a lot of wars, that was just the first one, and they have one thing in common, the innocent die. The innocent die.
The people who sent those soldiers, they go on live happy lives and retire in La Jolla or whatever. The soldiers who get sent, some don’t come home. Well they get another monument; they get their name on a monument in Washington. I went and saw Burr Willey’s name but you know, who builds the monuments to all those Vietnamese on both sides who never got home again? What about those two generations of Vietnamese women who never had husbands? Whose kids may never have seen their fathers again?
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 | The Innocent Die |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | parksmichaels-vid8_tr8.pdf |
| Full text | The Innocent Die If your just there and covering it like it’s a ping-pong match or your simply writing the military briefing every day “Giant eight-engine B52 Stratofortresses thundered across the skies of Indochina on Sunday hitting targets in three countries…” That doesn’t tell you, the American citizen, what’s being done in your name. Yes, you have to do certain stories like that that report the battle and report the politics and report the negotiations but you also have to tell people what war does to the ordinary Vietnamese. I’ve covered a lot of wars, that was just the first one, and they have one thing in common, the innocent die. The innocent die. The people who sent those soldiers, they go on live happy lives and retire in La Jolla or whatever. The soldiers who get sent, some don’t come home. Well they get another monument; they get their name on a monument in Washington. I went and saw Burr Willey’s name but you know, who builds the monuments to all those Vietnamese on both sides who never got home again? What about those two generations of Vietnamese women who never had husbands? Whose kids may never have seen their fathers again? |
| Archival file | Volume6/parksmichaels-vid8_tr8.pdf |
