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Watch scenes from the PBS The Movement and the ‘Madman’ PBS documentary film

— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhHcq-IUQo

Strategic Demands:

In the “Movement and the Madman” 2023 documentary, PBS reveals the how close the U.S. came to using nuclear weapons to force Vietnam to end the war the U.S. had escalated on the election of President Richard Nixon.

Daniel Ellsberg, a nuclear war planner, as his Doomsday Machine ‘confessions’ chronicled, recalls the Vietnam Moratorium Peace demonstrations of October-November 1969 in the book and film — and with National Security Council senior staff now, decades later, retells how close we came to nuclear war.

Strategic Demands editor at that time was a student and a coordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, adds to revealing these moments of history here:

The Movement and the Madman - PBS - March 2023

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/The_Movement_and_the_Madman_-_PBS_-_March_2023
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Surviving_Victory:_Security_Priorities
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Vietnam_Moratorium_for_Peace_1969-1970

PBS

The Movement and the ‘Madman’

PBS PREMIERE MARCH 28 ON AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

The documentary film tells the little-known story of a dramatic showdown between a protest movement and a president — and the power of protest …

Citizen action, as is now revealed, prevented the use of nuclear weapons

• https://www.movementandthemadman.com/home

• https://www.movementandthemadman.com/history

• https://www.movementandthemadman.com/preview

• https://www.movementandthemadman.com/interviewees

• https://www.movementandthemadman.com/filmmakers