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Flashpoint Vietnam
The Road to War
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m. ET!
Hosted by Oliver North
How did the United States find itself embroiled in Vietnam — fighting a war that lasted more than a decade and cost more than 58,000 American lives?
You’ll witness the rise of a determined Communist leader named Ho Chi Minh (search) and go inside the U.S. Marines first major operation, “Starlite.†This is the story of how Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson (search) led America into a war that may have been doomed from the start.
In this electrifying episode of “War Stories with Oliver North,†you’ll meet one of the very first Americans to see combat in Southeast Asia, U.S. Army Special Forces soldier Billy Waugh, who spent seven and a half years fighting in Vietnam. Hear how Navy pilot Everett Alvarez became the first American shot down over North Vietnam. As a prisoner of war, he endured more than eight years of brutal captivity at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton.†And you’ll meet Colonel Robert Nett, a legendary WWII Medal of Honor recipient who served as a military advisor in Vietnam in 1963.
The Road to War
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m. ET!
Hosted by Oliver North
How did the United States find itself embroiled in Vietnam — fighting a war that lasted more than a decade and cost more than 58,000 American lives?
You’ll witness the rise of a determined Communist leader named Ho Chi Minh (search) and go inside the U.S. Marines first major operation, “Starlite.†This is the story of how Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson (search) led America into a war that may have been doomed from the start.
In this electrifying episode of “War Stories with Oliver North,†you’ll meet one of the very first Americans to see combat in Southeast Asia, U.S. Army Special Forces soldier Billy Waugh, who spent seven and a half years fighting in Vietnam. Hear how Navy pilot Everett Alvarez became the first American shot down over North Vietnam. As a prisoner of war, he endured more than eight years of brutal captivity at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton.†And you’ll meet Colonel Robert Nett, a legendary WWII Medal of Honor recipient who served as a military advisor in Vietnam in 1963.