Category Archives: Michael Herr

It ain’t over till it’s over – Michael Herr

Posted on February 8, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Sitting on a garden bench – the sun, dappled by trees, streaming onto the lawn – it all seems impossibly far away. It is impossibly far away. The corpse was the worst thing we’d ever seen, utterly blackened by now, … Continue reading →

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How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism – Robert Stone

Posted on April 6, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Leroy won a George Polk Award in 1967 for her photographs of Vietnam. “In 1971, during the rainy season, I was sitting in a room in an old-fashioned French hotel in Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. It was evening and darkness … Continue reading →

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What I Saw in Vietnam – H.d.s. Greenway

Posted on October 10, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“They were burning brush, as they always do in the dry season, when my plane came in over the Vietnamese coast at dusk. Descending into Saigon, I could see fires burning below me, and in my naïveté I thought I … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of war: My journalist father’s Vietnam odyssey, revisited

Posted on February 1, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Duc Co Special Forces camp, 1965: Wounded soldiers crouch in the dust as a U.S. helicopter takes off from a clearing. This was one of many images taken by photojournalist Tim Page that chronicled the Vietnam conflict. “Chevy Chase, Md., … Continue reading →

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The Best of Michael Herr

Posted on July 30, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The brilliant war correspondent Michael Herr passed away Thursday at the age of seventy-six. Herr wrote the opening narration for Francis Ford Coppola’s surreal Vietnam epic, Apocalypse Now, and along with Stanley Kubrick and Gustav Hasford he wrote the screenplay for Full Metal Jacket. But Herr is … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Now (1979)/ Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) – Francis Ford Coppola

Posted on July 3, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It was co-written by John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert … Continue reading →

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Soldiers in la Guerra

Posted on January 17, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Gilberto C. Villarreal, the author’s father, in Vietnam. “The Edgewood Independent School District, located in a predominantly lower-income Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American west side neighborhood of San Antonio, suffered 54 casualties during the Vietnam War, one of the highest rates … Continue reading →

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Dispatches – Michael Herr

Posted on November 14, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Despite every other kind of progress, humanity still lives and dies in conditions of either war or peace, a truth reflected in our literature. There is still a place for a great war book such as Dispatches. Like its precursors, … Continue reading →

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Give Peace a Chance

Posted on September 20, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

College students in Boston march against the Vietnam war, October 16, 1965. “Say what you will about the Vietnam War, it had a great soundtrack. Feature and documentary filmmakers have, of course, long appreciated this—cue ‘The End’ by the Doors … Continue reading →

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Battle of Lang Vei

Posted on September 17, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Battle of Lang Vei (Vietnamese: Trận Làng Vây) began on the evening of 6 February and concluded during the early hours of 7 February 1968, in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam. Towards the end of 1967 the 198th Tank … Continue reading →

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