Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy (D-Mass.) talks with refugees at Thuong Duc during his fact-finding mission to South Vietnam.

U.S. Army Pfc. Steven D. Smith, 20, of Bellville, gave his life during service to his country on April 15, 1968, during the Vietnam War. The 1967 Clear Fork High School graduate was honored Thursday ...

In April 1968, Columbia University students opposed to the Vietnam War took over Hamilton Hall, protesting the school’s ties to the United States military and its fraught relationship with the ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” We’re “Breaking with Convention,” broadcasting from the studios of CAN TV here in Chicago. I’m Amy Goodman, with ...

2020 has been a rough year. 1968 was worse. Granted, as of late April, we are only a third of the way into this tumultuous and frustrating new decade. Unless the United States goes to war, loses ...

SEOUL — As the U.S. and South Korea celebrate the 70th anniversary of their alliance this year, they will consider how their partnership, frequently characterized as "ironclad," is preparing for the ...

The Vietnam War was a complex, controversial conflict that cost tens of thousands of American soldiers’ lives, and hundreds of thousands of lives of soldiers and civillians in Vietnam, Cambodia and ...

Chicago has hosted more presidential nominating conventions than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago ...

LANSDOWNE — When Howard “Bud” Cook returned in 1968 from his years of service in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam, the Delaware County resident’s baggage was full of treasures. While most of his ...

SAN DIEGO — This week we present a News 8 Throwback within a throwback. In 1998, News 8 presented a five-part series on what life had been like 30 years before in 1968. Now a couple of decades past ...

Ever since the Establishment invented “bipartisan foreign policy,” Americans have been deprived of any meaningful debate of international issues at campaign time. “Irresponsibility” is the charge to ...

Watson Baldwin, in the middle of the clearing, gazed skyward and spread opens his arms to guide the helicopter in to receive help from above. By Daniel Johnson Published Feb 23, 2022 9:00 AM EST I was ...