FTV 008 – The American Soldier
“How do you ask a man to be the last soldier to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” ~ John Kerry
Pacifica Radio Archives presents the From the Vault Soldier Memorial, a special review of the recordings that helped define the legacy of Pacifica Radio’s coverage of war throughout the decades.
This week we’ll hear Dale Minor reporting from a battle zone in Vietnam for Pacifica Radio, John Kerry 
testifying before members of Congress during the Winter Soldier Investigations, and excerpts from an archival recording entitled War, Peace and Pacifica.
We’ll also listen to late Congressman William Fitts Ryan, a New York Democrat, interviewing retired USMC Four-star General David M. Shoup about Shoup’s outspoken views on American foreign policy in Southeast Asia. This interview, originally broadcast on WBAI in December 1967, finds its relevance once again in this new time of war.
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