[NYTr] Bruce Franklin on COOP Radio 9/10: Bush's False US-Vietnam History

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

sent by Jane Franklin

[The Vietnam War (or the Indochina War, [or the American War, as the
Vietnamese call it- NYTr]) educated millions of people in this country,
including my husband H. Bruce Franklin and myself. Ever since the U.S.
defeat, there has been a massive campaign to erase from our culture all
that we learned and fought to teach. Pedro Gatos will be interviewing
Bruce tomorrow evening, Monday, September 10.

Siempre,
Jane Franklin
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jbfranklins  ]


Pres. Bush & Vietnam: Separating Fact from Fiction. 

Special Guest: H.Bruce Franklin

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

Please Join us, Monday, September 10th, 2007
from 6:00 - 7:00pm CST at  KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin TX

Streaming Live at our website at http://www.koop.org  or go to
http://www.PedroGatos.org

On August 22nd in a speech to the VFW President George Bush invoked the 
specter of "Vietnam." Our special Guest Bruce Franklin suggests that
he is preying on a false American perception of U.S-Vietnam history
that has been ideologically manufactured and instilled through our
mainstream culture into the American psyche, largely outside of our
conscious awareness, since the end of the U.S-Vietnam War. Using
examples from his fascinating book "Vietnam & Other American Fantasies,"
we will seek to provide an historically honest account of the U.S
-Vietnam relations, beginning with Ho Chi Minh's 1945 efforts to
emulate our own U.S. constitution precepts, in order that we might
discover that a number of our assumptions that underlie our perception
of that history may be fatally flawed.

H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934) is an American cultural historian.
He is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies
at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.

Dr, Franklin is the author or editor of nineteen books and hundreds of 
articles on culture and history published in more than a hundred
different academic journals, major magazines and newspapers, reference
works, and anthologies. He has given over five hundred addresses on
college campuses, on radio and TV shows, and at academic conferences,
museums and libraries, and has participated in the making of four
films. Dr. Franklin has written and/or edited a number of books on
Vietnam including:

- "Vietnam & Other American Fantasies" (University of Massachusetts
Press 2001)

- "Vietnam and America" (co-author; Grove Press 1995)

- "The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems" (Bedford/St.
Martins 1996)

- "M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America" (New York: Lawrence Hill and Co.,
1992. Revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New
Jersey: Rutgers University Press,  1993)

Our show is dedicated to Bringing Light to history in pursuit of the
truth no matter where it leads us. I invite you to please join the
pursuit every week!!!

Ideas are more powerful than arms. That's what this show is about.
Arming and challenging listeners with fact-based information that is
generally left out of the informational environment, an environment
that shapes our pubic opinion. Bringing Light into that Darkness.

Please tune in.

Thanks and siempre fieles
Pedro Gatos

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now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to
complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."