Vietnam Project Social Fallout

 LBJ disgraced
 Tet offensive
 Refuses to run for Presidency in 1968

 LBJ disgraced
 Tet offensive
 Refuses to run for re-election
Civil Rights
Racial tensions
Rise of the Black Panther Party
Cities burn with Black riots
Martin L. King assassinated
Robert Kennedy assassinated

 LBJ disgraced
 Tet offensive
 Refuses to run for re-election
Civil Rights
Racial tensions
Rise of the Black Panther Party
Cities burn with Black riots
Martin L. King assassinated
Robert Kennedy assassinated
 Cold War Events
 My Lai Massacre in Vietnam
 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
 USS PUEBLO attacked by North Korean

Anti-War Organizations
National Mobilization Committee
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Youth International Party (YIPPIES)
Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin

Anti-War Organizations
National Mobilization Committee
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Youth International Party (YIPPIES)
Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin
Democratic Party collapses
Eugene McCarthy vs. Robert Kennedy
Both gain anti-war support
Kennedy assassinated----Sirhan, Sirhan
VP Hubert Humphrey runs for Democratic
nomination

Democratic National Convention
Chicago, Aug. 1968
mass protests against war
Americans witness the radical “anti-war
and counter culture” on TV
VP Hubert Humphrey wins Democratic
nomination

divided US

ESTABLISHMENT ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT

Supported Vietnam War
Called Middle America,
the Silent Majority
Traditional American
values: hard work,
family and patriotism
Feared and disliked new
styles of music and dress
of youth
Against use of illegal
drugs

divided US

ESTABLISHMENT ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT
Counterculture: Hippies,
Flower Children
Supported Vietnam War
Called Middle Issues
America, the Silent  Opposed Vietnam War
Majority  Anti- Draft
Traditional American  Pro- Civil Rights
values: hard  Against Traditional
work, family and values
patriotism  Rebelled with sex,
drugs, and rock’n’roll
Feared and disliked new
styles of music and dress  Opposed authority
of youth A movement toward a new
Against use of illegal society, greater freedom
drugs
Used drugs, LSD

Were the Anti-war
protests, along with the
music of the era affective
in bringing about the end
to the Vietnam War?

For What It’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop,
children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop,
hey, what's that sound
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line,
the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound

Stop, hey, what's that sound
Stop, now, what's that sound
Stop, children, what's that sound

From 1965 through 1972, the Anti-war
movement successfully demonstrated against
the Vietnam War.
1. The First Washington, D.C. Rally
April 17, 1965
Organized by SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)
16,000 people gathered outside the White House and
shouted:
 We Want Peace Now
 No More War”
Only 4 arrests made

2. March on the Pentagon
October 21, 1967
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in
Vietnam organized demonstration. 5 days of protests
Yippies (Youth International Party) organized an
exorcism to cast out the “evil war spirits.”
Escalated into violence
 2,500 troops guarded the Pentagon
 Tear gas was used
 681 arrested

3. The Moratorium Rally
November 15, 1969
Largest Anti-war protest
250,000- 500,000 protestors
Relatively peaceful only 135 arrests.

4. Kent State Protest or Massacre
4 days of protest: May 1 to 4, 1970
Demonstrated against Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia
Day 4 the National Guard from Ohio was called in
disperse the crowd and bring order
Approx. 2,000 people present
Protestors shouted “pigs off campus” and threw
rocks and chased Guardsmen up a hill
National Guardsmen opened fire for 13 seconds
 4 dead
 9 wounded

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

5. Washington, D.C. Rally, May 3, 1971
Goal: Shut down Washington D.C.
In response to Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and
the Kent State shootings
March on the Pentagon, the Capitol, and the Justice
Department
Over 200,000 people attended peaceful rallies in D.C.
Became violent and 7,000 protestors were arrested.
Protestors were not successful in closing down
Washington, D.C.

We don't smoke marijuana in Leather boots are still in
Muskogee; We don't take our style for manly footwear;
trips on LSD. We don't burn our Beads and Roman sandals
draft cards down on Main won't be seen. Football's still
Street; We like livin' right and the roughest thing on
bein' free. We don't make a campus, And the kids here
party out of lovin'; We like still respect the college
holdin' hands and pitchin' woo; dean.
We don't let our hair grow long
and shaggy, Like the hippies CHORUS
out in San Francisco do. I'm proud to be an Okie from
CHORUS Muskogee, A place where
even squares can have a ball.
I'm proud to be an Okie from We still wave Old Glory down
Muskogee, A place where even at the courthouse, And white
squares can have a ball. We lightnin's still the biggest
still wave Old Glory down at thrill of all.
the courthouse, And white
lightnin's still the biggest thrill In
of all. Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation
With a new explanation
People in motion people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
If you come to San Francisco

Don't Bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to me

Roll another, just like the other one
You've been hangin' on to it, and I sure would like a hit'


Roll, another one, just like the other one
Cause this ones burned about, to the end
So come on and be a real friend



I hear people talkin' bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin' on the wars we fight,
An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in.
When they're runnin' down my country, man,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.

I read about some squirrely guy,
Who claims, he just don't believe in fightin'.
An' I wonder just how long,
The rest of us can count on bein' free.
They love our milk an' honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin'.
When they're runnin' down my country, hoss,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me. (2 times)

Yeah, c‟mon on all you big strong
men. Uncle Sam needs your help Repeat Chorus
again. He‟s got himself in a terrible
jam. Way down yonder in Vietnam. Well c‟mon on Wall Street -- don‟t
So put down your books and pick move slow. Why man, this is war-a-
up a gun. We‟re gonna have a whole go-go! There‟s plenty good money to
lot of fun! be made by supplying the Army with
the tools of the trade. Just hope and
Chorus: pray that if we drop the bomb. They
And it‟s 1, 2, 3, what‟re we fighting drop it on-a Vietcong!
for? Don‟t ask me, I don‟t give a Chorus
damn. Next stop is Vietnam. And it‟s
5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates. Ah, Well c‟mon mothers throughout this
ain‟t no time to wonder why. land. Pack your boys off to Vietnam
Whoopee! We‟re all gonna die! C‟mon pops, don‟t hesitate. Send
„em off before it‟s too late. Be the
Well c‟mon generals, let‟s move first one on your block. To have your
fast. Your big chance has come at boy come home in a box!
last. Gotta go out and get those
Reds. The only good Commie is one Chorus
who‟s dead. And you know that
peace can only be won. When we‟ve
blown „em all to kingdom come!

Fighting soldiers from the sky Back at home a young wife waits
Fearless men who jump and die Her Green Beret has met his fate
Men who mean just what they say He has died for those oppressed
The brave men of the Green Beret Leaving her his last request
“Put silver wings on my son‟s chest
Chorus Make him one of America‟s best
Silver wings upon their chest He‟ll be a man they'll test one day
These are men, America‟s best Have him win the Green Beret”
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret Chorus
Trained to live off natures land Silver wings upon their chest
Trained in combat, hand-to-hand These are men, America's best
Men who fight by night and day One hundred men will test today
Courage peak from the Green But only three win the Green Beret
Berets

Chorus
These are men, America's best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white, and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
They point the cannon right at you
It ain't me, it ain't me , I ain't no senator's son
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don’t they help themselves
But when the tax man comes to the door,
Lord the house looks like a rummage sale
It ain't me, it ain't me, it ain't no millionaire's son
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war
And when you ask them,
"How much should we give?"
They only answer "More! More! More!"
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no military son
I ain't no fortunate one
I ain't no fortunate one

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
But the one’s the mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s 10 feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you are going to fall
Tell’em a hook-ah smoking caterpillar
Has give you the call
Recall Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Having fallen sloppy dead
And White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said
FEED YOUR HEAD
FEED YOUR HEAD
FEED YOUR HEAD

Were the Anti-war protests, along with the
music of the era affective in bringing about
the end to the Vietnam War?
The first opinion: Yes, very effective, why?
Kept the public informed on the issues.
There was some sympathy towards the protestors.

The second opinion: No, why?
The Protestors were viewed by many as too radical
Many Americans believed the U.S. Government was
spending too much money on the war.

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