VIETNAM SERIES:
perhaps no war ever captured american political opinion like vietnam.as american atrocities mounted,bodies of american soldiers started coming home in thousands.from cinema to literature to art to photography,images of vietnam remain etched in the american psyche to this day.kubrick's "full metal jacket" to coppolla's "apocalypse now"(with its immortal scene of the texan general singing "i love the smell of napalm in the air" as his plane drops its morning's quota of poison over the countryside),hippies protesting and woodstock...vietnam defined american left thinking in the 60's and 70's.
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Eddie Adams changed America with his picture of Gen. Loan shooting a Viet Cong prisoner on February 1, 1968. The picture eventually overpowered the specific event and became the icon of a war that divided America. Its impact was partly due to timing. It came just after the Tet offensive when America was beginning to question its involvement in Vietnam.