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Vietnam, the living room war

By 1969, the war in Vietnam had turned, and so had television coverage. The Tet Offensive the year before had carved out a new reality in American public opinion, and it was an increasingly harsh and embittered one.

Forty years later, a distant echo of that remains on TV.

William Hammond, chief of the General Histories Branch of the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Ft. Lesley...

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