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Author | : Cecil B. Currey |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Long Binh Jail was a place so feared that American soldiers would rather face the Viet Cong than be sent there." "Known as "LBJ" or simply "The Stockade," it was officially the U.S. Army Installation Stockade in Long Binh, South Vietnam. Within its confines were Americans whose offenses ran the gamut from drug possession, insubordination, and AWOL, to assault, rape, and murder. Containing up to a thousand prisoners at a time, Long Binh jail was, in effect, the Army's own little penal colony and one sharply divided by racial tensions." "In 1968, these tensions erupted when most of its African-American prisoners took over the prison compound. The riot, which had to be put down by armed American troops using tear gas, was noted around the world as another sign of the sagging morale of U.S. forces. Noted military historian Cecil Barr Currey tells the story of Long Binh jail through the words of dozens of former guards, prisoners, and administrators. They reveal a disturbing aspect of the Vietnam War that has not been examined until now."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Cecil Barr Currey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2003-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780756770211 |
The infamous horror stories of the U.S. mil. prison at Long Binh, S. Vietnam, made it so feared that American soldiers preferred to face the Viet Cong rather than be sent there. This overcrowded penitentiary confined soldiers whose offenses ran the gamut from drug possession, insubordination, and AWOL, to assault, rape, and murder. In 1968, racial tensions there erupted into one of the worst prison riots in American penal history. When prisoners violently seized control of the compound, armed American troops struck back with tear gas, eventually bringing an end to the bloody insurrection. Critics pointed to it as yet another indication of the sagging morale of U.S. forces. Here is the story of Long Binh Jail through the words of former guards, prisoners, and admin.
Author | : Jamal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : African American prisoners |
ISBN | : |
Set in South Vietnam in 1967 or 1968 in the high security American military prison known as Long Binh Jail (L.B.J.) in the aftermath of a race riot between black and white prisoners. Black, white and Puerto Rican soldiers struggle to survive.
Author | : Ron Carver |
Publisher | : New Village Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1613321074 |
How American Soldiers Opposed and Resisted the War in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.
Author | : Hampden R. White |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1607913992 |
Is there something out there, not in the spiritual world, but the product of applied science, that can direct and influence your lifetime events and experiences? The author tells how this may have been the case in the context of his having served in a lawyer's position in the U. S. Army during the last two years of the Viet Nam conflict. It recounts his military criminal trial and general life experiences, many of which are rather bizarre, while in Long Binh Post Viet Nam. His conclusions give a greatly expanded insight to a soldier's conversational comment, Power Check, Commo Check. Hampden White is a U. S. Army Nam veteran, serving mostly as a lawyer 1970-71. He has practiced law primarily in Baton Rouge since returning from Nam, doing mostly insurance defense litigation and corporate law. White was born in 1944, age 64 at this publication. He has two married daughters, one a college professor, the other in a large national law firm.
Author | : Stuart Schrader |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520968336 |
From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism. Casting a new light on American empire, Badges Without Borders shows, for the first time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also militarized American policing at home. In this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical assistance—and how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A “smoking gun” book, Badges without Borders offers a new account of the War on Crime, “law and order” politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between foreign and domestic racial control.
Author | : Edward P. Metzner |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781585441297 |
The stories of three of these Vietnamese who survived and eventually found their way to America are told here in stark and moving detail."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jeff Stein |
Publisher | : Saint Martin's Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312929190 |
An account of the wartime murder of a suspected North Vietnamese double agent describes how higher-ups, including the CIA, gave three Green Berets the go-ahead to assassinate a suspected spy. Reprint.
Author | : Dennis Mansker |
Publisher | : Writer's Showcase Press |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595236596 |
Meet Farnsworth—reluctant soldier and world-class slacker... but is he also a cold-blooded murderer? And if he didn't kill the sadistic Sergeant Bragg, who did? See the other side of the Vietnam war: Draftees versus lifers, the Saigon black market, deteriorating race relations, and the deadly 1968 race riot at Long Binh Jail.
Author | : Howard Jones |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195393600 |
During the summer of 1971, in the midst of protests and demonstrations in the United States against the Vietnam War, it became evident that something horrific had happened in the remote South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Three years previously, in March 1968, a unit of American soldiersengaged in seemingly indiscriminate violence against unarmed civilians, killing over 500 people, including women and children. News filtered slowly through the system, but was initially suppressed, dismissed or downplayed by military authorities. By late 1969, however journalists had pursued therumors, when New York Times reporter Seymour Hirsch published an expose on the massacre, the story became a national outrage.Howard Jones places the events of My Lai and the aftermath in a wider historical context. As a result of the reporting of Hirsch and others, the U.S. army conducted a special inquiry, which charged Lieutenant William Calley and nearly 30 other officers with war crimes. A court martial followed, butafter four months Calley alone was found guilty of premeditated murder. He served four and a half months in prison before President Nixon pardoned him and ordered his release.Jones' compelling narrative details the events in Vietnam, as well as the mixed public response to Calley's sentence and to his defense that he had merely been following orders. Jones shows how pivotal the My Lai massacre was in galvanizing opposition to the Vietnam War, playing a part nearly assignificant as that of the Tet Offensive and the Cambodian bombing. For many, it undermined any pretense of American moral superiority, calling into question not only the conduct of the war but the justification for U.S. involvement.Jones also reveals how the effects of My Lai were felt within the American military itself, forcing authorities to focus on failures within the chain of command and to review training methods as well as to confront the issue of civilian casualties - what, in later years, came to be known as"collateral damage."A trenchant and sober reassessment, My Lai delves into questions raised by the massacre that have never been properly answered: questions about America's leaders in the field and in Washington; the seeming breakdown of the U.S. army in Vietnam; the cover-up and ultimate public exposure; and thetrial itself, which drew comparisons to Nuremberg. Based on extensive archival research, this is the best account to date of one of the defining moments of the Vietnam War.