Gulf of Tonkin Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given to two separate incidents involving the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964 two ...
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What happened during those meetings is unknown. But three days later, ... It has long been suspected that the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident-the spark that led to America's long war in Vietnam-was largely staged or provoked by U.S. officials in order to build up congressional and public support for American involvement.
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Newly declassified documents have provided more evidence the Johnson administration faked the Gulf of Tonkin incident to escalate the Vietnam War. The alleged 1964 attack on U.S. ... How can I make your country what it should be?’ When the woman said to me, ‘How do you do that?’ I really felt touched by that,
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It is believed that the USS Maddox, while patroling the waters of the Tonkin Bay on an intelligence gathering mission, were attacked by North Vietnamese naval forces. The North Vietnamese, believing that the Americans were part of an attack...
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WHAT really happened in the Tonkin Gulf during the early days of August 1964 is a question that historians may ponder for decades. All the details will probably never be established. For... ... For present-day Americans, the knowable facts are of more than academic interest, since the events ... Maddox, a 2,200-ton destroyer,
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McNamara wasted little time in raising a question that clearly had nagged him for decades. "To this day I don't know what happened on August 2 and August 4, 1964, in the Tonkin Gulf," he said to Giap. "I think we may have mad...
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"The parallels between the faulty intelligence on Tonkin Gulf and the manipulated intelligence used to justify the Iraq war make it all the more worthwhile to re-examine the events of August 1964 in light of new evidence," researcher John Prados said. ... You really are a fool ... immigration?? Huh? Ohh you mean because...
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Vo Nguyen Giap, McNamara asked what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on the 4th August 1964. "Absolutely nothing," replied Giap. The Washington Post, in a follow-up interview, said McNamara was now absolutely sure the 4th August attack never happened.
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www.vietnamgear.com/Article.aspx?Art=51
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The tapes, released by the LBJ Library at the University of Texas at Austin, include 51 phone conversations from Aug. 4 and 5, 1964, when the Tonkin Gulf incident occurred. ... But from the get-go, many have doubted anything really happened to the Maddox and a sister ship, the USS C. Turner Joy on Aug. 4.
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