CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth

by Jerry Lembcke

Book Overview

Jerry Lembcke delves into the origins of CNN's 1998 story about U.S. soldiers in Vietnam using nerve gas on defectors and how it came to be believed, not only by those who told it, but by news reporters and the public. In his investigation, Lembcke shows that the myth of Operation Tailwind originated in the fiction of popular culture, the unreliability of memory, and the conspiracy-minded, ultra-Right wing, fundamentalist Christian community.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742523284
• ISBN13: 9780742523289
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"