Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right on, Buzz! (as some of us used to say.) And if it was photographs, it was the photos Life Magazine ran of all the GI's who had died in Vietnam in a single week - THOSE photos made a difference. I am always amused by the contention that Philip Jones Griffiths' book, "Vietnam Inc." turned Americans against the war - and, yes, that contention is made, by Noam Chomsky among others. If 2500 people saw the first edition of that book - as powerful and compelling as it is - it was allot. B. D. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Buzz Hausner Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 7:44 PM To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: [Leica] Did a Single Photograph or Two Stop the War In Viet Nam? I gasp in disbelief that Marc Small should only be partly correct in his analysis. What really brought American opinion to view the War in Viet Nam with revulsion was not the action of the students...indeed, I was an active protester...it was our mothers who finally stood up and said (in essence), "Hell, No! Not with my boy you don't" It wasn't photographs of terrified, naked children, nor of Vietnamese executioners that caused our mothers' to wonder for what their sons died, it was the broadcast news film and tape of Americans fighting in the jungles, Americans screaming in pain, and Americans coming home dead. Buzz Hausner -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc James Small Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 6:58 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Best known photo ? At 06:00 PM 5/10/04 EDT, TTAbrahams@aol.com wrote: >The Eddie Adams shot of the >killing of the prisoner and Nick's shot of the girl probably did more to >create resistance to the US involvement in Vietnam than any other coverage. Hmm. Tom, I will dissent to the point that the Gallup and Harris polls into 1973 showed that US resistance to the War was directly based on the apparent unwilliingness of the Government to WIN the war. That is, at the very point when the Republic of Viet-Nam was dieing, the average US citizen supported massive US support to bolster that government _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information