![]() ![]() Matters more easily dealt with in hindsight than foresight. ![]() NBC News' chief diplomatic correspondent Marvin Kalb focuses on how the US got into the war, why it lost, and how a military victory might have been accomplished. ![]() Its most explosive material is what the documentary calls ``new evidence'' that President Lyndon Johnson knowingly lied to the American people about the extent of the war and the possibilities of winning it. Lessons of a Lost War (NBC, Saturday, 10-11 p.m.) digs deep into the Vietnam war, examining the period of our early involvement as well as later miscalculations. TV also seems to have somehow helped move that war out of the living rooms as well as out of the battlefields.Īlthough there has been and will be widespread coverage on all the morning and evening news shows, the main events seem to be tomorrow's Marvin Kalb-anchored NBC White Paper, ``Vietnam: Lessons of a Lost War,'' and yesterday's Cronkite-anchored CBS Reports, ``Honor, Duty and a War Called Vietnam.'' The anniversary has inspired a wide range of programming on TV, the medium which first brought that war into the living rooms and bedrooms of America. Despite the fact that this is the 10th anniversary of the United States pullout, the Vietnam war is still a timely story because of the analogies being drawn between the beginning of our Vietnam involvement and the current Central American controversies. Vietnam is once again the centerpiece of network television news. ![]()
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