Luminat Media finishes their disappointing series on the Vietnam War by underplaying the evil done by Nixon and Kissinger in Cambodia and Laos, and in dragging on a conflict that could have ended in 1969. All because of the figurehead of Thieu.

Richard Nixon's honorable peace includes invading two other countries, dropping more bomb tonnage on Indochina than Johnson, condoning My Lai, and prosecuting Daniel Ellsberg for releasing the Pentagon Papers.

LBJ's reversal of Kennedy's policy leads to a rudderless war effort by General William Westmoreland.  As the war becomes hopeless, dissent begins to mushroom.  LBJ gives up, MLK and RFK are killed, and this leads to Nixon.

Turning Point continues with one of the most startling omissions ever in a documentary on the Vietnam War.  By jumping from 1956 to 1965, the film misses the monumental events of 1964, when Johnson broke from JFK and decided America would go to war with North Vietnam. Evidently, the filmmakers did not think this was important.

Netflix is now showing a five part series on the Vietnam War that is just as poor as the PBS series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick of 8 years ago. If we are to understand history, this  kind of programming is precisely what is not needed at this time.

Jeff Carter shows why Oliver Stone and so many others owe a debt of gratitude to Fletcher Prouty for excavating Kennedy’s Vietnam withdrawal plan, and why the MSM despised him for doing so.

Counterpunch is at it again, smearing President Kennedy on civil rights, Indochina and the economy. We correct the record on all three.

Jeff Carter continues our examination of what the ARRB, and especially Tim Wray, went out of their way to do to the late Fletcher Prouty. Including denying (falsely) that there were military supplements to Secret Service details. Is this why the Board could not keep its schedule as to declassifying all the JFK documents?

Part 1: Fletcher Prouty vs. the ARRB by James DiEugenio

Daniel Ellsberg recently passed on. Let us not forget his struggle to get the Pentagon Papers published in the public domain, thus exposing the fraud of the Vietnam War. Let us also not forget the failed attempts by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger to stop publication and send Ellsberg to prison.

Jim DiEugenio writes a detailed critique about Edward Epstein's new memoir on his writing career. The book probably reveals more than intended. And Jim adds some facts that the author did not include. The combination paints an unattractive portrait.