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BBC World Service – The Documentary, The Vietnam War soundtrack

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Beatriz De La Pava plays the music that chronicled the Vietnam War, and speaks to the people who experienced it, suffered it, fought it, and campaigned against it.

She researches the ways in which pivotal real-life events are reflected in the lyrics of popular songs, and shows how music paints a vivid picture of the social, political, economic and cultural landscape. She also reflects on the racial issues that traversed the conflict, sparking the draft resistance movement, and the appalling consequences of using chemicals during the war.

Image: Armoured personnel carriers of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division seal off an area of Cholon, Saigon, where heavy fighting erupted, 8 May 1968 (Credit: Bettmann via Getty Images)

See related:

• Yale Class of ’68 – Recollections & Reconnections
• Some Notes on The Enduring Legacies of the YALE CLASS OF 1968 ~ From Dallas, 22 November 1963 to the present…
• God and War at Yale – The Public Witness and Ministry of William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
• “On our watch” the world was hijacked – Veterans Day, 2023

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Boston’s Lost Neighborhood. A visit to the West End Museum

unPlanned Jan 13, 2022

The West End of Boston has a long and storied history. Charles Bulfinch, America’s first architect, designed buildings there. Primus Hall, an African-American who fought in the 5th Massachusetts Regiment during the Revolutionary War was born there. And immigrants — many many immigrants — first Irish, then Jewish, the Italian, called it their first home in the New World. Perhaps most famous of these was none other than Leonard Nimoy, who grew up in the neighborhood, attended both the Elizabeth Peabody House and the West End House, and went on to international fame as Spock on the show Star Trek. But perhaps the West End is most famous for no longer existing, having become one of America’s most distinguished victims of the 1960s Urban Renewal wrecking ball. Sebastian Belfanti, the director of the West End Museum, gives unPlanned a 20-minute overview of the history and the place, and tells us briefly about “The Last Tenement” in Boston, an iconic if lonely building standing just opposite the museum’s front door.

See related:

• Climate-Boston

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