Linda Orman's Influence On War

Linda Orman has lived in the United States for nearly 8 decades. In her time, she’s seen major American and international events break over radio waves, in black and white, color, in print and on Twitter. War has been a major part of the media landscape over the past 80 years, and has helped form public opinion in support or against war. The role that media has played in major wars of the 20th century is vital, and has helped spur or stop conflicts. As technology has developed, so has the ways that war has been reported. The differences between the technological outlets that World War Two and the Vietnam War were reported through, directly led to two different sets of public opinion in the 20th Century.
Linda Orman was born on June 5, 1935 in Bainbridge, NY. She is a 78 year old Caucasian woman who was married for 30 years, and is now divorced. Orman considers Bainbridge, NY to be her hometown. She attended Syracuse University for two years, but failed to complete a degree. She has three daughters.
Orman’s father served in the military during World War II, flying in the “Army Air Force,” as it was called at the time, according to Orman.
There was a shift from World War II to the Vietnam War of less detached sentiment and more of a gruesome reality. The ability for Americans to view the actual results of war through film created a negative sentiment about the war. The less visual world of radio and newspaper during World War II allowed for people to create their own, less violent, images of war in their minds. The power of technology development on media and the war directly affected the war effort. Conducting research through the oral history method was much harder than I believed it would be. My subject was not as forthcoming as I had hoped she would be, but she was an interesting subject