TIME

Death at Intermission Time First U.S. Advisers Killed in South Vietnam: July 1959

STANLEY KARNOW

Diem Defeats His Own Best Troops Challenges to Diem: January 1961

MALCOLM W. BROWNE

Paddy War Guerrilla War in the Mekong Delta: December 1961

HOMER BIGART

A "Very Real War" in Vietnam--and the Deep U.S. Commitment Increasing American Involvement: February 1962

MALCOLM W. BROWNE

"The Enemy Had Left a Display for Us" Massacre in the Ca Mau Peninsula: February 1962

BERNARD B. FALL

Master of the Red Jab Interview with Ho Chi Minh: July 1962

HOMER BIGART

Vietnam Victory Remote Despite U.S. Aid to Diem A Skeptical Assessment: July 1962

NEIL SHEEHAN

Vietnamese Ignored U.S. Battle Order Battle of Ap Bac: January 1963

DAVID HALBERSTAM

"An Endless, Relentless War" Helicopter Assault in the Ca Mau Peninsula: April 1963

MALCOLM W. BROWNE

"He Was Sitting in the Center of a Column of Flame" Suicide in Saigon: June 1963

MARGUERITE HIGGINS

The Diem Government, Pro and Con Politics in Saigon: August 1963

JOSEPH ALSOP

In the Gia Long Palace Nhu and Diem: September 1963

STANLEY KARNOW

The Fall of the House of Ngo Dinh Overthrow of Diem: November 1963

DAVID HALBERSTAM

"They Can Win a War If Someone Shows Them How" Profile of John Paul Vann: 1962-1964

U.S. NEWS

WORLD REPORT

"We Are Losing, Morale Is Bad...If They'd Give Us Good Planes..." A Pilot's Letters Home: November 1963-March 1964

BEVERLY DEEPE

Christmas Eve Bomb in Saigon "The pink cloud became black": December 1963

RUSSELL BAKER

Befuddled in Asia Confusion Over Policy: March 1965

JOHN FLYNN

Marines Get Flowers for a Tough Mission First Combat Troops Land: March 1965

ROGER RAPOPORT

Protest, Learning, Heckling Spark Viet Rally First Campus "Teach-In": March 1965

MEG GREENFIELD

After the Washington Teach-in Controversy Over the War Intensifies: May 1965

DON MOSER

Eight Dedicated Men Marked for Death Struggle for Loc Dien: Summer 1965

BERNARD B. FALL

Vietnam Blitz: A Report on the Impersonal War American Buildup: September 1965

WILLIAM TUOHY

A Big "Dirty Little War" Terror and Counter-terror: Autumn 1965

TOM WOLFE

from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Ken Kesey Addresses an Anti-War Rally: October 1965

SPECIALIST 4/C JACK P. SMITH

Death in the Ia Drang Valley "Men All Around Me Were Screaming": November 1965

SUSAN SHEEHAN

A Viet Cong A Defector Tells His Story: 1965

McCANDLISH PHILLIPS

Two Hilltops in a Marine's Life Letters Home: April 1965-February 1966

HENRY F. GRAFF

Teach-In on Vietnam By... The President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State The Administration Defends Its Policies: February 1966

AFRO-AMERICAN

No Room in the Cemetery A Soldier's Burial: May 1966

WARD S. JUST

Reconnaissance Combat in the Central Highlands: June 1966

FRANK HARVEY

"Only You Can Prevent Forests" Spraying Defoliants: July 1966

MARTHA GELLHORN

"Suffer the Little Children" Civilian Casualties in South Vietnam: August-September 1966

NEIL SHEEHAN

Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk Veteran Reporter Reassesses the War: October 1966

FRANCES FITZGERALD

"The Long Fear" Politics in the Mekong Delta: 1966

HARRISON E. SALISBURY

U.S. Raids Better 2 Towns; Supply Route Is Little Hurt The Bombing of North Vietnam: December 1966

BERNARD B. FALL

"Unrepentant, Unyielding": An Interview with Viet Cong Prisoners U.S. Offensive in the Iron Triangle: January 1967

JONATHAN RANDAL

U.S. Marines Seize 3d Hill in Vietnam After 12-Day Push Khe Sanh Hill Fights: May 1967

WARD S. JUST

Saigon and Other Syndromes A Reporter Looks Back: December 1965-May 1967

DON MOSER

The Vietcong Cadre of Terror War in Saigon: June 1965-July 1967

JONATHAN SCHELL

from The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin Southern I Corps: August 1967

RICHARD HARWOOD

The War Just Doesn't Add Up Conflicting Views: September 1967

MICHAEL J. ARLEN

A Day in the Life A TV Crew at Con Thien: September 1967

NORMAN MAILER

from The Armies of the Night The March on the Pentagon: October 1967

PETER ARNETT

Hill 875 Battle of Dak To: November 1967

TOM WOLFE

The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie Air War Over North Vietnam: December 1967

CHARLES MOHR

U.S. Aide in Embassy Villa Kills Guerrilla with Pistol The Tet Offensive: January 1968

DON OBERDORFER

from Tet! The Viet Cong in Hue: January-February 1968

LEE LESCAZE

A Third of Mytho Destroyed in Delta Fighting The Tet Offensive: February 1968

JOHN T. WHEELER

Life in the V Ring Khe Sanh Under Siege: February 1968

WALTER CRONKITE

"We Are Mired in Stalemate..." Aftermath of Tet: February 1968

DON OBERDORFER

"An Ending of His Own" Lyndon Johnson Changes Course: March 1968

MARY McCARTHY

Hanoi--March 1968 An American in North Vietnam: March-April 1968

THOMAS A. JOHNSON

The U.S. Negro in Vietnam Black Servicemen and the War: 1968

NORMAN MAILER

from The Siege of Chicago The Democratic Convention: August 1968

STEVE LERNER

A Visit to Chicago: Blood, Sweat, & Tears The Democratic Convention: August 1968

JOE McGINNISS

from The Selling of the President 1968 The Nixon Campaign and Vietnam: September 1968

KEVIN BUCKLEY

A Small Contribution Firefight Near Loc Ninh: October 1968

ZALIN GRANT

"We Lived for a Time Like Dogs" American POWs in a Jungle Camp: July 1968-January 1969

JEFFREY BLANKFORT

Our Town: The War Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio A Small Town Mourns Its Dead: Spring 1969

DAVID HOFFMAN

Hamburger Hill: The Army's Rationale Battle in the A Shau Valley: May 1969

WALLACE TERRY

Black Power in Viet Nam Racial Tensions in the Military: September 1969

DANIEL LANG

Casualties of War An Atrocity and Its Aftermath: November 1966-October 1969

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