Akihiko Okamura is a courageous, persistent Japanese photographer who set out last April to see what the war in Viet Nam is like from the Communist side. Armed with six cameras, 182 rolls of film and ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

In a recent question-and-answer session at the University of Pittsburgh, Vice President Hubert Humphrey was asked about “ghastly, barbarous American attacks in Viet Nam.” Humphrey exploded: “I’m glad ...

On Feb. 1, 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured by news photographers. It was ...

“Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities?” Walter Cronkite asked his audience in February 1968. “The Viet Cong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of ...

This is the second of a three-part series looking at Vietnam as it evolved from a poverty-stricken post-war country into the tourist destination it is today. Vietnam’s first post-war tourists from non ...