... States. President Kennedy decided to send a small number of troops to South Vietnam to provide assistance. Initially, the American public was in agreement with this decision. Soon after, in 1963, Diem was assassinated, this would be an event that would start the beginning of a drastic change in the involvement of the United States in Vietnam. No able government was fashioned after Diem's death, ... so the U.S. was forced to "shoulder more and more of the burden of the war."" ... By 1967, the Vietnam War was costing America seventy million dollars a day, and by the war's end, twenty-thr...

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... a grade. After he completed his junior year at Booker T. Washington High School, he then entered Morehouse College in the fall of 1944 at the age of 15. After attending Morehouse College, King decided to attend Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, a very liberal school. While at ... issues important to what was happening world wide. As the war in Vietnam escalated in the second half of the 1960's, King grew dissatisfied with the situation. In 1967 he went and spoke out against the war. King vowed to return to personally direct another demonstration in ... King was assa...

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