“One of the most unforgettable images, perhaps the most… important image of the entire war is the photograph by Eddie Adams, of General Loan executing the Viet Cong suspects on the streets of Saigon,” Novick told IndieWire.
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One of the biggest contributors to the American perception of the war occurred early on during the Tết Offensive, on its second day.
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Episode 6, titled “Things Fall Apart” is one of the most relentless and graphically violent installments of the series so far, but is absolutely essential viewing to understanding how both the Vietnamese and Americans viewed the war going forward. At the halfway point of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “ The Vietnam War,” the documentary series reaches the Tết Offensive, one of the biggest military offensives by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong that turned the tide of the war, even though it was deemed a failure.
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