American Songwriter

On This Day in 1969, a Famed Bluegrass Picker Performed in the Nation’s Capital for 500,000 Demonstrators in Protest of the Vietnam War

On November 15, 1969, an iconic bluegrass picker broke off from the Nashville establishment and performed at a Vietnam War protest.
Yahoo

Central Texas Vietnam War Veteran Recalls Impact of the Fall Of Saigon 50 Years Later

HEWITT, TX (FOX 44) — Many veterans served in Vietnam before the fall of Saigon in 1975. One of them is Hewitt attorney Jon Ker, who served in Vietnam from January 1969 to January 1970. Here’s his ...
Connecticut Post

Vietnam 1969 — Retired CT marine reflects on year he’ll never forget

BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...
Stars and Stripes

Person gives candy to children in Saigon, 1969

Saigon, South Vietnam, October 1969: Unidentified person hands out boxes of Jujyfruits candy to local Vietnamese children in Saigon. This photo was one of many taken during Stars and Stripes ...
The Times Leader

Oliver Noonan’s ‘Waiting for Help, Saigon 1969&r

Oliver Noonan’s ‘Waiting for Help, Saigon 1969’ is part of ‘Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina,’ at the Everhart Museum in Scranton through the end of the year. FRED ADAMS ...