LZ Kansas City: Stories and Impact of the Vietnam War
From Soldier to Scholar
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Dr. James Willbanks shares what it’s like to teach a war he experienced first hand.
Dr. James Willbanks served in Vietnam in the early 1970s as an Army Advisor, and now teaches history at the Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas. Willbanks shares what it’s like to teach a war he experienced first hand and his role in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s epic documentary The Vietnam War.
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LZ Kansas City: Stories and Impact of the Vietnam War is a local public television program presented by Kansas City PBS
LZ Kansas City: Stories and Impact of the Vietnam War
From Soldier to Scholar
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Dr. James Willbanks served in Vietnam in the early 1970s as an Army Advisor, and now teaches history at the Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth, Kansas. Willbanks shares what it’s like to teach a war he experienced first hand and his role in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s epic documentary The Vietnam War.
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Clip | 10m 55s | KC memorials for those who were killed in Vietnam were not completed until the mid-1980s. (10m 55s)
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