The Vietnam War - Season 1, Episode 6: Soundtracks

2017

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15 songs

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The Vietnam War

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Summertime (Live at Winnipeg Stadium, Winnipeg, Canada - July 1970)

Janis Joplin

Stills and clips of events that would occur in 1968.

Voodoo Chile

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

American intelligence suspects an NVA offensive push will occur in early 1968. Phillip Brady, USAID.

The Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314: (from "True Lies")

Johann Strauss II

You Keep Me Hangin' On

Vanilla Fudge

Khe Sahn attack starts January 21 1968. Johnson and Westmoreland believe this to be main event.

Tomorrow Never Knows

The Beatles

Tet Offensive in Saigon. Vietcong seize National radio station, but their transmission cut off.

02 Ghosts I

Nine Inch Nails

32 Ghosts IV

Nine Inch Nails

Tet Offensive: Hue‘

13 Ghosts II

Nine Inch Nails

Tet Offensive: Hue‘

White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane

Phillip Brady, USAID. Evaluating the Tet Offensive.

We Shall Overcome

New York City Labor Chorus/Geoffrey Fairweather

Robert Kennedy assassination, June 1968.

We Shall Overcome

Jacqueline Schwabe

Robert Kennedy assassination. Carol Crocker.

My Country, 'Tis of Thee

Jacqueline Schwabe

Hal Kushner: July 4th, 1968, as prisoner of war.

Live Right Now (LP Version)

Eddie Harris

A Whiter Shade of Pale - Original Single Version

Procol Harum

End credits. "...I was feeling kinda seasick/ But the crowd called out for more..."

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Bob Dylan