by John Talbott | 24 May 2018 | Discovery, Donald Trump, Eyewitness, United States, Women's rights
I returned from the Vietnam War in 1968 and helped lead the anti-war movement that exploded in Chicago. Looking back, I wonder what we learned. Chicago police officers try to disperse demonstrators during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 29 August 1968....
by Bernard Edinger | 8 May 2018 | Asia, Discovery, Eyewitness, Immigration, United States
I covered the fall of Saigon when South Vietnam collapsed and North Vietnamese seized the city. I now ask myself: What was the sense of it all? The author standing on the steps of the former Saigon Opera, which had been converted into the South Vietnamese National...
by Robert Hart | 27 Apr 2018 | Asia, Discovery, Eyewitness, Personal Reflections
I covered the Vietnam War as a rookie foreign correspondent in 1966 and 1967. There was death and destruction for sure, but it was not all war. Robert Hart, War zone D, Tay Ninh province, South Vietnam, August 1967(photo courtesy of the author) News-Decoder...
by Barry May | 26 Apr 2018 | Discovery, Eyewitness, Personal Reflections
The 1960s were a zeitgeist of anti-establishment values and alternative philosophies, an age of counter-culture, hippies and yippies. I was there. Hippies greet the sunrise in San Francisco, California, 6 October 1967 (AP Photo) News-Decoder correspondents have...
by News Decoder | 11 Jul 2017 | Asia, Discovery, Eyewitness, Student Posts
(Photos by Emma Bapt) By Emma Bapt My impulse to share images of a trip to Vietnam drives this photo gallery. I don’t want to leave these pictures sleeping on my hard disk. I want them to travel, to be seen. The portraits capture my encounters with children, men and...