Sons and Daughters
Jerry Stoll follows the preparation and organisation of Vietnam Day, a peaceful protest march from the University of California’s campus in Berkeley to the Oakland Army Terminal, one of the US Army’s major supply ports for the war in Vietnam. The vibrant, carefully photographed film makes the short phase tangible in which the US public was still largely unaware of what was going on in Vietnam and when the shock at the first images and witness reports was just beginning to dawn. While “Sons and Daughters” became a powerful tool of mobilisation at the time, not even its exclusive soundtrack featuring songs by The Grateful Dead, Jon Hendricks and Virgil Gonsalves could prevent it from sinking more or less into oblivion.
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