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Was there a diorama at the Chicago Museum of Science where children could play shooting at a Vietnamese village?
In books and interviews, Noam Chomsky recalls that during the Vietnam War a diorama of a Vietnamese village was built at the Chicago Museum of Science where "children were supposed to come and play, and shoot at the village with the …
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Was the Buddhist monk who self-immolated in protest of the Ngo Dinh Diem policies intoxicated?
I was watching Ken Burn's Vietnam War documentary.
It described Thích Quảng Đức, a Buddhist monk whose death was famously filmed after he self-immolated.
The documentary showed Madame Nhu (Trần Lệ Xuân), suggesting the monk was intoxicated at the…
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