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Sundays with Shep

"Vietnam: Responsibility or Inconvenience?" (August 25, 2013)

By Ryan Priest
Published August 25, 2024 at 7:03 PM CDT

Shep gets topical as tensions rise over Vietnam.

Shep tried to avoid talking about hard news during his show. But as U.S. involvement in Vietnam began to escalate in the mid-1960s, it was hard to avoid not weighing in on the situation. In this program from August 25, 1965; he discusses how Vietnam has opened the door for a new wave of professional students.

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