The Tet Offensive And The Invasion Of Theu.s Embassy

Up until this point, Americans still foolishly believed in the government, the soldiers and in the presidential speeches. Along with the Tet Offensive, another event that changed the minds of Americans was the invasion of the U.S Embassy in Saigon, which later became known as the US Embassy: Fall of Saigon. The Fall of Saigon was also an invasion by the North Vietnamese on South Vietnam, and consequentially, the South fell to the North, effectively, ending the Vietnam War. But more importantly, this tragedy ended the trust of Americans in their government and in their political leaders. These images of the Tet Offensive and the invasion of the U.S Embassy were burned into the memories of Americans and they understood that the war was going to drag on, with it s bloody, massive murders. And up until that point, the majority of the U.S population foolishly believed that we were winning the war. In a 1968 newscast with famous anchorman, Walter Cronkite, often referred to as â€Å"Ameri ca s most trusted man†, he states, â€Å"For it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past†(Walter Cronkite Broadcast). After Cronkite made this commentary acknowledging that the Vietnam War was a hopeless one that we could not win, a massive uproar began in the United States. It is obvious that television coverage