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Tom Smothers of sibling comedy duo the Smothers Brothers dies at age 86

Tom and brother Dick’s groundbreaking CBS show was pulled when they took a stance against Vietnam war and for civil rights

The Guardian - US

Tom Smothers dies at 86; was half of Smothers Brothers comedy duo

“The Smothers Brothers” show was a turning point in TV history, with its sharp eye for pop culture and daring sketches ridiculing the Establishment and railing against the Vietnam War. Network censors and CBS abruptly canceled the program in 1970.

Chicago Sun-Times

“Big jets moving, bombers, people in battle, distress, crying – the Vietnam War added a lot of darkness to his playing”: Kirk Hammett on how Jimi Hendrix’s guitar style helped birth metal and psychedelia

The Metallica man and Hendrix fan argues that the guitar icon's influence on metal is under-appreciated

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Lawmakers want Hmong vets to get Gold Medal for fighting in Vietnam’s ‘secret war’

Many Americans know little about secretive US campaign in Laos during Vietnam War

The Independent UK

Kissinger, Giant Of Statecraft, Molded Post-war US History

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

International Business Times

Romance fraudster who conned at least 10 women out of £100,000 is jailed

His fake identities included him being a fighter pilot, a Vietnam War veteran, a successful architect, having powerful friends and an ex-wife who was an American billionaire

Evening Standard

UK Air Force ROTC to honor POW/MIAs with Saturday run to Vietnam War Memorial in Frankfort

Air Force ROTC students at the University of Kentucky and their counterparts from the University of Louisville will run from UK to Frankfort Saturday to honor Prisoners of War and those Missing In Action.

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Book Review: Alice McDermott's 'Absolution' captures America with Vietnam War in the background

Alice McDermott’s ninth novel perfectly captures the manner and mood of early 1960s America as the Vietnam War rumbled in the background and women led constricted lives as “helpmeets” for their husbands

The Independent UK

Who is Arthur Engoron? Judge weighing future of Donald Trump empire is Ivy League-educated ex-cabbie

The judge deciding the future of former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire has driven a taxi cab, played in a band and protested the Vietnam War

The Independent UK

Former US Sen. Dick Clark, an Iowa Democrat known for helping Vietnam War refugees, has died at 95

Former U.S. Sen. Dick Clark has died in Washington at age 95

The Independent UK

Black man exonerated 47 years after being found guilty of rape: ‘I can finally breathe’

Vietnam war veteran Leonard Mack had to live with the longest-standing wrongful conviction in US history

The Independent UK

Biden to award Medal of Honor to Army helicopter pilot who rescued soldiers in a Vietnam firefight

President Joe Biden is awarding the Medal of Honor to an Army pilot from the Vietnam War who risked his life to rescue a reconnaissance team that was about to be overrun by the enemy, facing almost certain death

The Independent UK

Protect access to books and ideas at libraries facing threats of violence

It’s a dangerous moment for a society when the very places that should be sources of ideas and community are held hostage by nameless individuals.

Chicago Sun-Times

How cartoonist Bruce Petty documented the Vietnam War – and how his great satire keeps finding its moment

After seven decades as a visual satirist provoking Australia as it is and might be, Bruce Petty passed away at 93 on April 6 this year.

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Morning Mail: police investigate violent arrest; Aukus fight in Labor ranks; Indigenous Vietnam veterans identified

Shock at violent arrest of Aboriginal man with disability; Labor seeks to ward off dissent over Aukus nuclear submarine deal; researchers identify 285 Indigenous servicemen who fought in Vietnam

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial researchers identify 285 Indigenous servicemen who fought in the Vietnam war

A national ceremony in Canberra will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the war

The Independent UK

Patrick Hamilton, ex-AP and Reuters photographer who covered Central American wars, dies at 74

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer

Newcastle Herald

"Sugar Man" Rodriquez leaves sweet memories in Hunter

HUNTER Valley singer-songwriter Melody Pool has paid tribute to Sixto Rodriguez, who she described as, "a giant of truth through song". Rodriguez died on Tuesday after a short illness in the American singer-songwriter's hometown of Detroit. He was 81. Despite releasing his two studios Cold Fact and Coming From Reality…

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The Canberra Times

'They kept us alive': Vietnam pilot's tribute 50 years on

It's nearly half a century since Australia's involvement in Vietnam ended.

The Canberra Times

A half-century on, distinguished jungle war veteran finds a fresh audience

Former Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove reflects on his Vietnam War experience.

Chicago Sun-Times

Honoring the last of ‘The Greatest Generation’

Henry W. Clark, a World War II veteran from Harvey, plans to be on board a July 12 Honor Flight Chicago bound for Washington, D.C. So does the Rev. George Kane, a retired Catholic priest, who was a chaplain during the Vietnam War.

Tribune News Service

‘When we came home, the war was not over for us’

ATLANTA -- Sgt. Johnny Miller fought his way up Hill 875 in Vietnam’s central highlands until a fellow paratrooper noticed Miller was bleeding. Incredulous, the Georgian checked himself, confirming he had indeed been hit in the chest with enemy gunfire.

The Week

Daniel Ellsberg: whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers

The “most important whistleblower of our times”, Daniel Ellsberg was the military analyst who smuggled hundreds of pages of top secret material about US actions in Vietnam out of his office at the Rand Corporation, and shared them with a reporter from The New York Times, said The Guardian.

The Conversation

The New York Times worried that publishing the Pentagon Papers would destroy the newspaper — and the reputation of the US

The late Daniel Ellsberg was a former government contractor who leaked the classified history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times.

Al Jazeera

50 years since US troops left Vietnam, bombs continue to kill

US has channelled millions to clean up UXO but farmers and children continue to discover unexploded missiles.

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