... indeed played a role in influencing public opinion about U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Safer and his Vietnamese cameraman accompanied U.S. marines to Cam Ne, an area rumored to be a Communist stronghold (http://www.booknotes.org/transcripts/50108.htm). The marines were under order to destroy every structure from which the enemy fired (Hammond 58). The marines" commanders stated that the troops had received fire ... ...

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