Past Exhibitions | Apr, 1 2016 9:00AM - Jul, 31 2016 5:00PM
Vietnam: Evidence of War showcased the rich archival resources available at The University of Texas at Austin's Briscoe Center for American History and explored one of the most complicated, contested, and painful wars in our nation's past.
Artifact Highlights & Photos
The exhibition featured original photographs, artifacts, letters, publications, posters, oral history interviews, and more, many of which had never previously been exhibited.
Artifact highlights included:
- Pulitzer Prize-winning images such as Eddie Adams’ "Saigon Execution" (1969)
- Nick Ut’s “Terror of War” (1973)
- Photograph of a lone GI from David Hume Kennerly’s Vietnam portfolio (1972)
- Archival material from the papers of renowned journalists Morley Safer and Walter Cronkite, whose reporting from the front lines in Cam Ne and Hue, respectively, brought the war into the living rooms of the American public.
- Medal of Honor that belonged to Army Master Sgt. Roy Benavidez
