Source B is a photograph of two small children running and screaming past U.S troops after being victims to a napalm attack. Becouse the Vietnam War was fought with full access to the media this image would have been broadcasted to millions of U.S civilians TV’s. This would show first hand the destruction that the war was causing to innocent children. This would definitely cause anti-war movement, as anyone who sees these images would be devastated to see that such destruction was happening to small children and babies.
The picture below shows a small child who was a victim of Agent Orange dropped by the Americans during the war. This picture is very disturbing and would have the same effect is not more of an effect than source B. Like source B, people who saw this source would be angered by the American for killing and mutating small children
Source C is written by the American journalist, Richard Hamer in 1970. In the source hamer explains how the American had difficulty distinguishing their enemies from normal civilians. He also writes about some ways the Americans where fighting the war and how the Americans actions are destroying the people they are trying to free.
This source would contribute to an anti-war movement because the image of a persons friends or family ‘screaming in agony with a leg or arm blown off, or their guts hanging out…’ would make them want the war to end and stop other people suffering. It also would make people feel sorry for the civilians who were in the
middle of the war and were be killed all the time and the next generation who would suffer from the chemical the U.S used.
Source D is a cartoon published in a British magazine during the Vietnam War. In the source the train representing Vietnam is kept moving by the demolishment of the carts representing the ‘Great society’. The source shows that is policy is breaking down due to him spending more money on the Vietnamese people than is own American civilians. This would cause an anti-war movement because it would anger the American that there president care for foreign people more than his own country.
Source E is a statement made by a BBC representative to the Royal United Service Institute during the war. The source explains how American saw the war from their TVs. They saw shocking and disturbing images. The statement was made in front of some of the armed forces. The statement would make the armed forces feel ashamed that the killing they have done may have been seen be young children or their own families.
This source bellow is a famous image of a suspected Vietcong guerrilla being killed by the Vietnamese national police chief. This image was published all over America in 1969. This is only one of many images that were published in America due to the freedom of media access. This was the main image that immediately changed the American publics views on the way.
Jack Park
Candidate number: 9069