Commentary on the Leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints during the Vietnam War

Mary Jane Jane Woodger, Brigham Young University - Provo

Abstract

The word Vietnam brings sad memories (memories many are eager to forget). The 1960s and early 1970s were times of domestic turmoil, complexity, discontent, misunderstanding, and frustration over the conflict in Southeast Asia. The backlash from these events on American popular culture still reverberates in the consciousness of current thinking.