The Importance Of Opposition To The Vietnam War

The people in the US opposed the war for many reasons. In the following essay I am going to talk about three representations that show opposition to the Vietnam War and explain which one I think is best. I am going to analyse the representations using the criteria of objectivity, completeness and accuracy.
Representation 1 was written last year in 2015 by a website called factualworld.com which, since then, has been deleted so it is debatable on whether the source is reliable and the reliability relies on how objective the website was. However, it should be objective as the website was written to inform/teach others. The rep states that the American Union Trade was deeply divided over the war; in 1968 a Gallup poll taken found that 43% of trade union members thought it was a mistake to be in Vietnam. The representation focuses on protest for the war. It only focuses on one protest and this was the Hard Hat Riot that they claim to have taken place on May 8th 1970 where 200 construction workers attacked 1000 students who were protesting about the invasion of Cambodia which shouldn’t have happened because of Nixon’s policy. Also, there were protesting about the Kent State massacre where four people were killed- two of which were innocent bystanders. The figure of 200 workers seemed an inadequate figure which it is was as over 200 construction workers protested so this …show more content…
Even though it was objective it did focused more on protest against the war unlike the other representations. Representation two was fairly objective unlike representation three and it isn’t decipherable to judge how objective representation one is. It has a clear origin and was written by Professor of History so it should be better than the other representations as ones by a website and the others by a cartoon