Does public opposition to military actions inspired by investigative journalism play a significant

[Douglas Carpenter]

role in stopping military actions from happening?

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	No, policy decison about military attacks are not in any significant way influenced by either investigative journalims or public opposition
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[jakeXT]

1. Could be

Thank you. And good evening. This story actually begins with Vietnam in 1966. As a very
much younger person I was there as a journalist and didn’t publish anything whilst I was
there, but waited until I got back to the United States.
Then I wrote a number of articles. One of them appeared in a muckraking magazine called
Ramparts, that had its home in this city,
published by Warren Hinckle in those days. It was called "The Children of Vietnam." That is
what started me down the slippery slope of the saga of Martin Luther King; his work during
the last year, and his death. And then an investigation which has gone on since 1978.


When Martin King saw the Ramparts piece he was at a -- there are different stories of
actually where he was -- but I think he was at Atlanta Airport on his way to the West Indies
and he was traveling with Bernard Lee, his bodyguard. They were having a meal and he was
going through his mail, according to Bernard, and he came upon this issue of
Ramparts, January 1st, 1967. It had in it the piece that I wrote called "The Children of Vietnam."
Bernard said as he started to thumb through it he stopped and was visibly moved. He pushed
his food away. Bernard said, "What’s the matter Martin, aren’t you hungry? Is there
something wrong with the food?" And he said, "No. I’ve lost my appetite. I may have lost
the ability to appreciate food altogether until we end this wretched war."

Then he asked to meet with me and asked me to open my files to him that went well beyond
what was published in the Ramparts piece in terms of photographs. Some of you probably
saw, if you’re old enough to remember, a number of those photographs. Portions of them
used to appear on lampposts and windows of burned and deformed children. That was what
gave him pause. He hadn’t had a chance to read the text at that point but it was the
photographs that stopped him.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WFP020403.pdf

[Douglas Carpenter]

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