Vietnam War (1955-1975)

John Fogerty takes a new tack with his classic songs

2013-05-25 08:00:00

When John Fogerty's wife, Julie, suggested over dinner one night that he revisit his catalog of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs with artists he admires today, he wasn't about to let the music take a back seat to technology. "I realize nowadays with...

Bringing the history of Jews in L.A. into clearer focus

2013-05-24 18:22:00

What is the Jewish experience in Los Angeles? "Nobody even thinks about Jews being here or, if they do, maybe they think about Hollywood," said Karen Wilson, guest curator at the Autry National Center. "They might possibly, if they're local, think about...

Orb trainer Shug McGaughey has Triple Crown reminders 'every day'

2013-05-15 16:35:00

BALTIMORE — Wednesday morning at Pimlico race track was similar to most mornings for Claude McGaughey III. Except there were lots of reporters around, which made it different. McGaughey is a thoroughbred horse trainer, currently the one in the...

The Vietnam syndrome

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...

Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation

2013-05-11 18:10:00

Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...

The boys of summer, past and present

2013-04-11 13:43:00

The integration of Major League Baseball, so heroically carried by Jackie Robinson and ingeniously engineered by Branch Rickey, occupied one spring and summer season in 1947. The boys of summer occupied the baseball seasons of the early 1950s, the...

Helicopter crew killed in Vietnam in '67 to be buried at Arlington

2013-04-30 16:28:00

The remains of a Navy helicopter pilot from Huntington Park who was shot down and killed in Vietnam nearly 46 years ago have been identified, the U.S. Defense Department announced Tuesday. Lt. Dennis W. Peterson will be buried Thursday in Arlington...

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Pine, Quinto on film’s real-world parallels

2013-04-26 06:52:12

Young Vietnamese Americans learning the lessons of Black April

2013-04-29 20:44:00

One girl gasps as the grainy black-and-white footage rolls: Women are screaming, thrusting their babies at soldiers boarding a helicopter. In the next scene, hundreds of refugees packed in the belly of a rickety boat rock in the ocean, desperately...

Sam Jameson dies at 76; former longtime L.A. Times correspondent

2013-04-19 19:30:00

Sam Jameson, a former longtime Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent with a deep knowledge of and close personal affinity for Japan, his professional and personal base for half a century, died Friday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 76. The cause of...

Review: REDCAT's Christian Wolff programs a lesson in virtuosity

2013-04-24 19:25:00

An authority on Euripides, Christian Wolff is a retired professor of Greek and Latin classics (along with Marxist literature), having taught at Harvard and Dartmouth for many years. He is also one of America's most unpredictable, most venturesome,...

It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet

2013-04-22 05:00:00

Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many...

David Benoit of Orlando writes that his dad died on May 7, 2013, of cancer at age 74 and was buried on May 14 at the National Military Cemetery in Bushnell with a full military honor service.

2013-05-24 00:00:00

The small, but poignant memorial to Vietnam Conflict veterans.

2013-05-23 00:00:00

On November 13, 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Constitution Gardens, Washington DC was officially dedicated to honor the ��courage, sacrifice and devotion to duty and country�� of US forces members who served and sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War [1955-1975].

2013-05-15 09:30:58