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well today
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marks the 50th anniversary of what would become
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one of the most controversial news reports
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from the war in Vietnam on August 5th, 1965
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CBS News morally safer
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filed a report for the CBS Evening News
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with Walter Kronkite Safer
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who was stationed in Vietnam
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was following US Marines through the village of Cam NE
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as they torched houses
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essentially leaving the villagers with nothing
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we're on the outskirts of the village of Cam NE
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with elements of the 1st Battalion
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9th Marines and we were walking into this village when
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you can hear what happened
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come let's move in with those other guys
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this is what the war in Vietnam is all about
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the old and the very young
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the Marines are burned this old couple's cottage
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because fire was coming from here
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now you walk into the village
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you see no young people at all
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fire was coming from automatic light
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automatic weapons
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fire was coming from all of these villages
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it's not really one village it's a strain of huts
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and the people that are left
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come this way Khan
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people that are left are like this woman here
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the very old
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been an action like this before Marie
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no I haven't
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not like this I have
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did you uh
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set fire to these houses here
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no we're just off to left it when it was burning
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were you getting fire from them
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somewhat not too much
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just a little sniper fire
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it first appeared that the Marines had been sniped at
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and that a few houses were made to pay
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shortly after an officer told me
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he had orders to go in and level
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the string of hamlets that surrounds
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Camney village
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and all around
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the common petty field that feeds these hamlets
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a ring of fire 150 homes were leveled
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in retaliation for a burst of gunfire
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in Vietnam like everywhere else in Asia property
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a home is everything
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a man lives with his family on ancestral land
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his parents are buried nearby
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their spirit is part of his holding
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if there were Viet Cong in the hamlets
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they were long gone
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alerted by the roar of the amphibious tractors
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and the heavy barrage of rocket fire
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laid down before the troops moved in
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the women and the old men who remained
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will never forget that August afternoon
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the day's operation burned down 150 houses
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wounded three women killed one baby
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wounded one Marine and netted these four prisoners
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four old men
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who could not answer questions put to them in English
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four old men who had no idea what an ID card was
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today's operation is the frustration of Vietnam
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and miniature
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there is little doubt that American firepower can
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win a military victory here
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but to a Vietnamese peasant whose home is a let
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means a lifetime of back breaking labor
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it will take more than presidential promises
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to convince him that we are on his side
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morally safer CBS News near the village of Camney
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you can't tell the story of Vietnam without CBS News
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that that footage
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that filing from morally safer was just incredible
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um in February 1968
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Walter Kronkite would go on and deliver a CBS
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new special report essentially saying that he
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in his opinion the war was unwinnable
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and Johnson said if I've lost Kronkite
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I've lost America and
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it would be another eight years
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before President Nixon would withdraw all US troops
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from Vietnam in 1973
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that report drew backlash from US citizens
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because it was showing them a side of the war
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they had never imagined
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it said that President Johnson wanted to have
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morely safer censored after that report
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but it was the truth it was the truth
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it was absolutely
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and
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it was a scene that was also mortalized in the movie
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Platoon
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Oliver Stone served in Vietnam at around that time
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and he the scene
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just as you saw in Morley's report
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was filmed almost
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almost seen for scene in the movie platoon
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