Jennifer Long
Recent Event Contributions
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US Military Employs Agent Orange
Agent Orange is the code name for a herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War,... Read more
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President John F. Kennedy Assassinated
Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives Findings of the Select Committee on Assassinations in the... Read more
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General Nguyen Khanh Seizes Power in Saigon
On November 1, 1963, he joined General Dương Văn Minh and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) generals in a coup d'etat against President... Read more
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution (officially, the Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408) was a joint resolution of the United States Congress... Read more
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Diem Overthrown and Executed
The inept performance of the South Vietnamese army was exemplified by failed actions such as the Battle of Ap Bac on 2 January 1963, in which a... Read more
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of... Read more
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Amid steadily rising tensions over North Vietnam's activities in Laos and South Vietnam, at the end of July 1964 USS Maddox entered the Gulf of... Read more
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North Vietnamese Army unit creates supply route from North Vietnam to Vietcong forces in South Vietnam
In January 1959, the North's Central Committee issued a secret resolution authorizing an "armed struggle". This authorized the southern communists... Read more
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Hanoi forms National Liberation Front for South Vietnam
Observing the increasing unpopularity of the Diem regime, on 12 December 1960, Hanoi authorized the creation of the National Liberation Front as a... Read more
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US Servicemen Killed in Guerilla Attack
U.S. Army Major Dale Richard Buis (August 29, 1921 - July 8, 1959) is the first name listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Buis originally... Read more
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John F. Kennedy Elected 35th U.S. President
On Tuesday, November 8, Kennedy defeated Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century. In the national popular vote... Read more
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Vice President Johnson Tours Saigon
In May 1961, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visited Saigon and enthusiastically declared Diem the "Winston Churchill of Asia." Asked why he had... Read more
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Strategic Hamlet Program
In 1961, U.S. advisors in South Vietnam, along with the Diem regime, began the implementation of a plan attempted to isolate rural peasants from... Read more
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Battle of Ap Bac
The Battle of Ap Bac was a small-scale battle early in the Vietnam War which resulted in the first major combat victory by the Viet Cong against... Read more
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"Hero Song" SNL Digital Short
An apparently wealthy man (Samberg) sings about crime infecting the city, then turns into a superhero (a la Batman) and tries to save a woman (Amy... Read more
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Letterman Responds To Sarah Palin's Accusation
Last night on The Late Show, David Letterman said that Gov. Sarah Palin had called him "pathetic" for making jokes about her and one of her... Read more
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NBC Declares O'Brien "The New King of Late Night"
A day after enduring headlines about how David Letterman had bested whippersnapper Conan O'Brien in Tuesday's ratings, NBC fired off a press... Read more
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Palin Accepts Letterman Apology
Deliberately misinterpreted or not, unnecessarily drawn out or not, in poor taste or…well, the consensus is actually pretty clear on that one…Sarah... Read more
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Sarah Palin is not a fan of Letterman and his 'Rape Jokes'
In an e-mailed statement, the Republican governor said: “Laughter incited by sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed... Read more
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Letterman apologizes to Palin
David Letterman is making a full-throated apology for his controversial joke about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter. During a taping of... Read more
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Letterman's Late Show scores higher ratings than O'Brien's Tonight Show
On night seven of Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show run, David Letterman's Late Show finished on top, overnight ratings showed. Tuesday's Late Show... Read more
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"The Hangover" is released
The Hangover is a 2009 comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, who also directed the films Road Trip, Old School, and Starsky & Hutch. The main plot... Read more
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2009 CFDA Fashion Awards
Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) paid tribute to the winners and honorees of the 2009 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall,... Read more
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"Motherlover" SNL Digital Short
Five months after the events of "Dick in a Box," Samberg and Timberlake's characters (who have just been released from prison) sing about special... Read more
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2009 MTV Movie Awards
The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV (Music Television). It also contains movie parodies that used official movie... Read more