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This week Radio Lab brings you an hour of programming on life during wartime: the soldier, the wife, the "bloods."
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corpral Michael A Baranowski
In 1966, a 19 year-old marine took a reel to reel tape recorder with him into
the Vietnam war. For two months, until he was killed in action, Lance Corporal
Michael A. Baronowski made 3 inch open reel tapes of his friends, of combat,
of life in the foxhole. 34 years later, his comrade Tim Duffie brought those
tapes to Lost & Found Sound.
Producer: Christina Egloff with Jay Allison
Links:
The
Vietnam Tapes on NPR's Lost & Found Sound
Tim Duffie sent us this
letter to the listeners of wnyc about his friend...
Excerpts from Bloods
Black servicemen in Vietnam had more to worry about than enemy fire: Cross burnings, Confederate Flags, Unfair Duty assignments, not to mention returning to a country that saw them as second-class citizens. In 1989 Wallace Terry interviewed twenty black Vietnam Vets veterans as part of the collection "Bloods: an Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans." 5 of those interviews became a radio piece, courtesy of producer Katie Davis
Producer: Katie Davies
Links:
More information about author
Wallace Terry
To buy his book on Amazon.com
Excerpts from "War Comes to Twin Peaks"
In 1991, Iraq invaded Kuwait, Bush senior sent American troops to Iraq. The Gulf War marked the first major American war since Vietnam. Feelings and images from 16 years prior - of flag burnings, civilian/military, helicopters - resurged. Reporter Frank Browning, producer Gary Covino and two Italian film producers travel along the west coast taking the pulse of a divided nation. If you miss the intro to this piece, you'd be hard pressed to tell this documentary was made 12 years ago (meaning: not a lot has changed).
Producer: Frank Browning and Gary Covino
Engineer: Robert New House
This program originally aired on the documentary program Soundprint.
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