Episode 10: “Let it be.”

Update: 2017-09-29

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“The Vietnam War” begins with Henry Kissinger’s call to put Vietnam behind us. It ends with the Beatles’ “Let It Be.” Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explain the difference, and how the painful lessons of the Vietnam era can help us today.

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Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

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Episode 2: “To me, JFK was God.”

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Episode 3: “We are behaving like ugly Americans.”

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Episode 4: “We want the dead to come back to us.”

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Episode 5: “I only killed one human being in Vietnam.”

2017-09-2220:49

Episode 6: “It's very rare to see a photograph of a person who was in the act of dying.”

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Episode 7: “It's torturing me and I needed to tell you this.”

2017-09-2626:25

Episode 8: “You have these two parallel threads on a collision course and that's where they meet.”

2017-09-2728:10

Episode 9: “The Marine Corps was the thing that I did that gave me my own confidence in myself.”

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Episode 10: “Let it be.”

2017-09-2923:08

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Episode 10: “Let it be.”

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Episode 10: “Let it be.”