Witness American college students protesting U.S. attacks on sanctuaries for Vietnamese communist forces in Cambodia during the Vietnam War
Learn about American college students' protests against U.S. attacks on Vietnamese communist sanctuaries in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. From Vietnam Perspective (1985), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Transcript
NARRATOR: For years, the North Vietnamese had been using Cambodia as a sanctuary from which they directed the war in South Vietnam. President Nixon believed that by attacking and destroying those sanctuaries he would help his program of Vietnamization and protect withdrawing American forces.
But President Nixon miscalculated. Rather than being viewed as a step toward ending the war, the Cambodian invasion was viewed by many Americans as a further expansion of the war [sound of protesters]. Demonstrations against the invasion of Cambodia were quite violent. On May 4, during protests at Kent State University, Ohio, four student demonstrators were killed by National Guardsmen; and at Jackson State College, Mississippi, two students were killed by police.
Congress reacted to the Cambodian invasion by repealing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
Thus with protesters in the streets and Congress limiting his ability to conduct the war, President Nixon was forced to quickly curtail the Cambodian operation.
But President Nixon miscalculated. Rather than being viewed as a step toward ending the war, the Cambodian invasion was viewed by many Americans as a further expansion of the war [sound of protesters]. Demonstrations against the invasion of Cambodia were quite violent. On May 4, during protests at Kent State University, Ohio, four student demonstrators were killed by National Guardsmen; and at Jackson State College, Mississippi, two students were killed by police.
Congress reacted to the Cambodian invasion by repealing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
Thus with protesters in the streets and Congress limiting his ability to conduct the war, President Nixon was forced to quickly curtail the Cambodian operation.
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