The Movement and the "Madman" shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 -- the largest the country had ever seen -- pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his "madman" plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including a threat to use nuclear weapons. At the time, protestors had no idea how influential they could be and how many lives they may have saved
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Originally released by PBS, 2023
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 23, 2023
