The Vietnam War - Season 1, Episode 4: Soundtracks

Jean-Marie Crocker's anxiety about Mogie Crocker. Mogie Crocker's letters from Vietnam.

The Staple Singers cover Dylan's "Masters of War" . Mogie is disillusioned by his assignment to a non-combat position.

Matt Harrison and family. Growing up in a military family. At West Point.

Rodger Harris, Roxbury Boston. John Musgrave, Fairmount Missouri. Bill Ehrhart, Perkasie Pennsylvania. Motivations for enlisting in USMC.

Film clips of USMC boot camp.

Binh Dinh province. Jan—March 1966. First large-scale Search and Destroy operation. Operation Masher (later Operation White Wing). Refugees, homeless. No front. Body count.

Mogie Crocker. May 1966. Assigned to a combat unit.

Anti-war movement begins to increase as middle class is drafted.

African-American recruits and draftees. Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali. Draftee rate increase from 10,000 to 30,000 per month.

Duong Van Mai Elliott, Saigon. Daughter of official in South Vietnam government. Work for Rand Corporation.

Le Quan Cong, Viet Cong.

[0:45] Working with villagers of South Vietnam. Measuring results of pacification.

Mogie Crocker. Despair evident in letters home.

Mogie Crocker, June 3, 1966. KIA.

[1:06] Crocker family informed of Mogie Crocker's death. June 1966.

Bao Ninh, Hanoi. Ho Guy Lab, NVA. Effects of U.S. bombing. Merrill McPeak, USAF.

North Vietnamese population response to U.S. bombing. "The enemy destroys, we repair."

Craig McNamara, son of Robert McNamara. Commenting on his father.

Dr. Benjamin Spock. Martin Luther King.

Bill Ehrhart, John Musgrave, Roger Harris. Early 1967.

April 1967. Anti-war demonstration in Central Park. 500,000. National Mobilization To End the War.

Westmoreland requests 200,000 more troops so that Laos and Cambodia can be invaded. Robert McNamara has doubts.