{"id":3048,"date":"2014-06-13T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:07:45","slug":"domestic-causes-for-the-us-defeat-in-vietnam-civil-rights-campaigners-musicians-photojournalists-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/domestic-causes-for-the-us-defeat-in-vietnam-civil-rights-campaigners-musicians-photojournalists-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic causes for the US defeat in Vietnam: Civil Rights campaigners, musicians, photojournalists and students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Baez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3049\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Baez.jpg\" alt=\"Baez\" width=\"269\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Baez.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Baez-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/cuba_vietnam\/2_VIETNAM\/4_Reasons_for_defeat-Political_USA-DONE\/1_Tasks.doc\">Domestic causes for the US defeat in Vietnam: Civil Rights campaigners, musicians, photojournalists and students<\/a><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The longer that the war dragged on, the more the American public questioned US involvement in it. President Johnson employed a &#8220;policy of minimum candor&#8221; in its dealings with the media (meaning?). Over time, this policy damaged the public trust in official pronouncements. As the media&#8217;s coverage of the war and that of the Pentagon diverged, a so-called &#8216;credibility gap&#8217; developed. In this activity, students look at the role played by civil rights campaigners (e.g.\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/uRYDv0\">Muhammad Ali<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #3b6cc3;\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/cQaM1S\">Martin Luther King Jr<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">), musicians, photojournalists and students in bringing pressure to bear on the government to end the war.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic causes for the US defeat in Vietnam: Civil Rights campaigners, musicians, photojournalists and studentsThe longer that the war dragged on, the more the American public questioned US involvement in it. President Johnson employed a &#8220;policy of minimum candor&#8221; in its dealings with the media (meaning?). Over time, this policy damaged the public trust in&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/domestic-causes-for-the-us-defeat-in-vietnam-civil-rights-campaigners-musicians-photojournalists-and-students\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Na","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}