The U.S. presidency during the Vietnam War

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick discuss their latest project, "The Vietnam War," examining how multiple U.S. presidents dealt with that war.

• Sep 17, 2017
• 08:16

"The Vietnam War" explores U.S., Viet Cong perspectives

The latest project from documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick looks at the U.S. war in Vietnam through the eyes of both U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers.

• Sep 17, 2017
• 04:36

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• Apr 8, 2018
• 23:14

Sen. Sanders is confident legislation to stop U.S. support of Saudi Arabia in Yemen will pass

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, joins Margaret Brennan to discuss the Climate Change report and pulling back support for Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen.

• Nov 25, 2018
• 07:02

U.S. allies sanction Israeli cabinet members "for inciting violence"

5 close U.S. allies sanction far-right Israeli officials Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over "extremist rhetoric" calling for "Palestinians to be driven from their homes."

• Jun 10, 2025

Top Saudi diplomat: Khashoggi murder "a mistake"

Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir joins moderator Margaret Brennan to discuss the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the war in Yemen and more.

• Feb 10, 2019
• 06:22

Israel deports activist Greta Thunberg after seizing Gaza protest ship

Israel, accused by activists of piracy, says it lawfully seized a Gaza-bound protest ship carrying Greta Thunberg as the crew was planning to breach its naval blockade.

• Jun 10, 2025

From the archives: Ambush

In this report first broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" on November 11, 1982, correspondent Bruce Morton talks with Vietnam War veterans who journeyed to Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to friends who died while serving with them in 1967.

• May 28, 2017
• 03:54

Remembering the lost platoon

Clifford Rountree, Kenny Barker and Victor Renza were three American soldiers in Vietnam whose platoon was ambushed in May 1967. Twenty-two of their comrades were killed. John Blackstone reports on how that battle shaped the lives of the survivors, and how some of them spent the anniversary of that battle, fifty years later.

• May 28, 2017
• 04:17

Russia and Ukraine begin new prisoner swap, as fighting continues apace

Ukraine's president says a new prisoner exchange with Russia is ongoing and will take days, as both sides continue launching hundreds of attack drones.

• Jun 9, 2025

Author Mark Bowden on Vietnam

Journalist Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down" and a new history of the Vietnam War, "Hue 1968," talks about America's misguided entry into the war, in which the United States projected its domestic political priorities that had little to do with the realities of Southeast Asia.

• Sep 17, 2017
• 02:52

Photographing Kent State shootings

Photographer John Filo was a journalism major on May 4, 1970, when he documented an anti-Vietnam War demonstration on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. In this web exclusive he talked with correspondent Maurice DuBois about capturing an iconic photo of the era - a picture that earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

• Oct 8, 2017
• 05:31

1968: The Tet Offensive

The month-long battle for Hue, in Vietnam, was fought street by street, house by house, room by room. Two-hundred-and-sixteen American troops were killed and another 1,300 wounded. On the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, David Martin visits an exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and talks to Army photographer John Olson, who captured the bloody battle, and a former Marine who miraculously survived.

• Jan 28, 2018
• 06:18

Seymour Hersh on the golden age of journalism

“Reporter: A Memoir,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, recounts a blockbuster career in which he shone a spotlight on war crimes and political scandals. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin sits down with the 81-year-old Hersh, still breaking scoops with zeal.

• Jun 17, 2018
• 07:12

Body of Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza is retrieved, Israel says

Nattapong Pinta worked in agriculture before he was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023.

• Jun 7, 2025

Behind the headlines: Battle over the Supreme Court

Battle over the Supreme Court Correspondent Martha Teichner looks back at Anita Hill's testimony during the confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas, and talks with NPR's Nina Totenberg and historian Jon Meacham about how Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation fight, and the sexual assault allegations against him by Christine Blasey Ford, demonstrate that the nation's highest court has become a weapon in the wars of polarization.

• Sep 23, 2018
• 05:40

Remembering 1968: The return of Richard Nixon

Richard Schlesinger looks back at the hard-fought race for the presidency in the turbulent year of 1968, when President Johnson withdrew from seeking re-election, and Richard Nixon – following losses in runs for the White House and the California Governor's Mansion – won the Republican presidential nomination and, ultimately, the presidency. Richard Schlesinger talks with biographer Evan Thomas, Nixon aide Dwight Chapin and speechwriter Pat Buchanan, and with then-Senator Walter Mondale, about the unpredictable contest between a law-and-order candidate hoping to shed his image as a "loser," and a sitting vice president breaking from his own administration to vow an end to the bombing of North Vietnam.

• Nov 11, 2018
• 07:44

A very personal "thank you for your service"

John Metzler says a letter he received on the battlefield on Christmas Day 1970 from a sixth-grade girl helped him get through the Vietnam War. It was a simple note, with a simple message: "Thank you." Today, Metzler prizes the letter and its sentiment, and always wondered what happened to the little girl who wrote it. Steve Hartman was there when he found out.

• Dec 2, 2018
• 02:52

On the frontlines of photography

Many photojournalists have lost their lives or limbs on the battle lines, because the only way to document the violence of war is up close. "Sunday Morning" Special Contributor Ted Koppel looks at the legacy of two noted war photographers, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who were killed in pursuit of the truth amid the chaos of battle. Koppel also talks with documentary filmmaker Greg Campbell and journalist Sebastian Junger about the dangers faced by journalists in conflict zones; and with former New York Times photographer Mike Kamber, who helped found the Bronx Documentary Center, where youth people are taught about photojournalism.

• Dec 9, 2018
• 09:16

Netanyahu acknowledges Israel arming gangs in Gaza to help fight Hamas

Israel's leader says arming "clans in Gaza" to help fight Hamas will save lives. Opposition leaders say the weapons "will eventually be turned against" Israelis.

• Jun 6, 2025

The War and Treaty: Healing songs

As the duo The War and Treaty, Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter sing some of the songs Michael wrote while serving in the Army in Iraq as tributes to fallen comrades – songs they now perform in concerts across the country and in their debut album, "Healing Tide." Conor Knighton reports.

• May 26, 2019
• 05:44

Gen. Eisenhower and the D-Day invasion

David Eisenhower, grandson of the general who commanded the greatest military operation of history's most terrible war, talks with David Martin about the legacy of D-Day, and of the decisions made and responsibilities borne by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, who led nearly 160,000 Allied troops into Normandy 75 years ago.

• Jun 9, 2019
• 07:33

War and the art of surrealism

The traveling exhibition "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s," now at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, explores how the real-life monstrosities of war in the mid-20th century bred metaphorical monsters in paintings and sculptures, by such artists as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, André Masson and Joan Miró. Serena Altschul reports.

• Jun 30, 2019
• 03:38

General Jim Mattis on war & Trump

General James Mattis served more than 40 years in the Marines, much of it commanding troops in battle. But he almost didn't make it to boot camp. In this extensive two-part interview, he talks with David Martin about his years in Afghanistan and Iraq, following orders from the Bush administration that he characterized as incoherent, and serving as Secretary of Defense under President Trump. He also talks about his distaste for his colorful nickname, "Mad Dog," and shows off his library of 7,000 books, to which he's added another – his own, titled "Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead."

• Sep 1, 2019
• 16:14

The Forgotten Veterans

Although American women aren't technically allowed to serve in combat, many still find themselves on the frontlines. As Morley Safer reports, female combat nurses helped save countless lives in Vietnam but, like male veterans, they were sometimes met with contempt upon returning home.

• Feb 26, 1989
• 04:04

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