The Bow That Shocked the World
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
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The American war in Vietnam, lasting from 1964 to 1973, is widely considered history’s first “television war.” Through television and other mass media, images of the conflict were brought directly into American homes, allowing viewers to experience the horrors of war in near real-time. As covered in our previous video What is Napalm Anyway and Who Invented It? some of these images, like that of badly-burned Vietnamese girl Phan The Kim Phuc fleeing her recently-bombed village, would help turn public opinion against the war. Others, however, had a more galvanizing effect. In April 1967, LIFE magazine ran a photograph by correspondent Lee Lockwood, showing Lieutenant Commander Richard A. Stratton, an American prisoner of war, bowing submissively before his North Vietnam captors. This image exposed the brutal regime of mistreatment and torture inflicted by the North Vietnamese on captured American servicemen, sparking widespread outrage and leading to a dramatic shift in the prosecution of the war. This is the disturbing story of the Stratton Incident, the bow that shocked a nation.
This video is sponsored by the City of Quincy. To discover more about Quincy, check out the link - discoverquincy.com/
so, this is what Simons basement looks like.
Great video, important history lesson. Appreciate all the details in the story you told. What a horrible, hateful hardship so many of our boys had to endure.
I enjoy your videos. Thank you for another one.
Quincy Mass is the sponsor and one of the main people is from Quincy? Crazy.
Quincy(nice town)? Coincidence? Nah…
Yep my dad served two tours of Duty in Vietnam from 66 through 68 and combat.
DAVEN WE LOVE YOU!!!
Oh, I thought it was going to be related to archery...
Me too.
More like the pronunciation that shocked the world 🤯
Jocko Willink has a great interview on his podcast with Charlie Plum. Its hard to imagine the torture they went through and how they persevered.
Thank you.
I don't suppose to much crowing can be done over the torture considering all the fun that's been revealed about Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere!
I see that copy of The Know It All, loved that book
still unbelievable how well keeps works
I ❤ Braintree!
I was born a day after they were released, yay!
IT'S QUIN-Z, SEE?
1:15 - Start of the video
I'll pronounce Quincy correctly when you pronounce nuclear correctly.
You can have my "nucular" when you pry it from my cold, dead vocal chords. 😋 I really have no idea why I say "nucular" but I assume a remnant of my few formative years in Oklahoma, where I also have had a lifetime of saying "Breafkast" because of it. 🤷
@@HighlightHistory Pronouncing Quincy correctly is a hard sell. It's like pronouncing "live" or "bass" or even *ahem "bow" out of context. It was hard to pronounce the title of this video without watching a bit of it first.
MISSED YOU.
Lots of Massholes commenting here
Men like Captain Stratton make me proud to have served in the US armed forces
Very interesting story. But it shocked the US not the world. Additionally, I think it is insane to get upset over the treatment of these POWs. From his own account it sounds like he was well treated, but through his own initiative he chose to act and sound like a moron to illicit condemnation of his captors. The insanity of it to me is that no US civillians were harmed in any way, yet the injustices visited upon the millions of Viet Nam people, civillian and military (you even said VM POWs were not treated as well) is terrific.
Imagine being so ideologically brain washed you truly believe only Americans committed atrocities. Atrocities were committed by both sides, including the North Vietnamese army torturing and killing south Vietnamese civilians, especially after the Western nations pulled out of Vietnam. The SouthVietnamese soldiers that fought alongside the Americans equally committed atrocities. This is a historical fact no matter how much you wish it was not so.
Because if Americans can be hurt anywhere, it's our overpowering, suffocating arrogance.I bet we weren't nearly as shocked when we made the Japanese bow before us.Not saying this treatment was justified individually, but if that pilot was committed to the idea that he wasn't bombing civilian targets, he was either lying or INHUMANLY deluded. And Americans are not exactly known for treating POVs a single hair better than the North Vietnamese did to us.
Whats all this non Simon nonsense thats happening lately. Not subbing for imposter Simon.
Daven has always been Simon's business partner and has historically co-hosted on other shows like TIFO. I'm pretty sure everything without Simon was recorded during his recent and much needed vacation. But if you don't know about Daven, you haven't been with Simon since the beginning. You can see Daven credited as the producer on most of his channels outside of Brain Blaze, Casual Criminalist, and Decoding The Unknown. Daven is associated with everything else.
Simon: "it's not a big deal, I don't want to be a dick, I just want more time with my family."
The internet: Freaks out and starts acting like a horde massive dicks because they didn't bother to understand Simon or the situation