Combat troops embarking for Vietnam from the Bay Area Military Ocean Terminal, Oakland Naval Supply Center, March 21, 1966. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.
The Vietnam War inflamed a social divide that evolved into unprecedented cultural and political movements on the West Coast and in turn redefined America. In What's Going On?—California and the Vietnam Era, the Oakland Museum of California explores the impact of the Vietnam conflict on California life and culture.
The 7000-square-foot exhibition includes more than 500 historical artifacts, photographs and documents interwoven with film clips, music, and oral histories, many contributed from veterans and former refugees. The exhibition covers the period from the Cold War of the 1950s to the present, with emphasis on the decade from President Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War in 1965 through the war's end, in 1975.
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The Vietnam War inflamed a social divide that evolved into unprecedented cultural and political movements on the West Coast and in turn redefined America. In What's Going On?—California and the Vietnam Era, the Oakland Museum of California explores the impact of the Vietnam conflict on California life and culture.
The 7000-square-foot exhibition includes more than 500 historical artifacts, photographs and documents interwoven with film clips, music, and oral histories, many contributed from veterans and former refugees. The exhibition covers the period from the Cold War of the 1950s to the present, with emphasis on the decade from President Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War in 1965 through the war's end, in 1975.
Combat troops embarking for Vietnam from the Bay Area Military Ocean Terminal, Oakland Naval Supply Center, March 21, 1966. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.
The Vietnam War inflamed a social divide that evolved into unprecedented cultural and political movements on the West Coast and in turn redefined America. In What's Going On?—California and the Vietnam Era, the Oakland Museum of California explores the impact of the Vietnam conflict on California life and culture.
The 7000-square-foot exhibition includes more than 500 historical artifacts, photographs and documents interwoven with film clips, music, and oral histories, many contributed from veterans and former refugees. The exhibition covers the period from the Cold War of the 1950s to the present, with emphasis on the decade from President Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War in 1965 through the war's end, in 1975.
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The Vietnam War inflamed a social divide that evolved into unprecedented cultural and political movements on the West Coast and in turn redefined America. In What's Going On?—California and the Vietnam Era, the Oakland Museum of California explores the impact of the Vietnam conflict on California life and culture.
The 7000-square-foot exhibition includes more than 500 historical artifacts, photographs and documents interwoven with film clips, music, and oral histories, many contributed from veterans and former refugees. The exhibition covers the period from the Cold War of the 1950s to the present, with emphasis on the decade from President Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War in 1965 through the war's end, in 1975.
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