Talk:US History/Kennedy and Johnson

Add

 * Kennedy Assisanation
 * The Space Race
 * Early Vietnam Tensions

BOMBING
In the sentence concerning Vietnam: "Bombing began 1967" and  By 1968 more bombs were dropped than in WWII. I recall these phrases from that era, and consider them propaganda.

I don't know whether you, the editor, should elaborate or not; considering the brevity of the article. There is a vast difference between dive bombing and carpet bombing. Most "official" data was secret or government propaganda. The Media was flagrantly abusive. The fact is that limited precision dive bombing began over N. Vietnam in 1965. Carpet bombing by B-52s (the monkey killers) was limited to bombing Jungle-Mountain infiltration trails in N. Vietnam and Laos. It was primarily an image/morale exercise using up ship-loads (many ships) of bombs that did not fall on villages, towns or cities. They made match-sticks out of jungle. Really impressive when photographed from the air for TV. In this regard the reference to WWII is egregiously deceptive.

(Another matter, entirely, were Nixon's Christmas 1972 B-52 raids on downtown Hanoi. I recall 600 sorties, eleven days, that ended the war))

And perhaps you can advise me of the intended difference wetween Wikipedia and Wikibooks? Truely, I don't know.---plumalley