USS Pueblo Bombing

Capturing the USS Pueblo was a compelling time in history. On January 23, 1968 the USS Pueblo was spotted in the international waters by the North Koreans. As gunshots were fired at the commanders of the Pueblo, the other Americans on the USS tried but failed to escape. In the the attempt to kill the commanders, many others got wounded. The members of the Pueblo were charged and brought to prison for spying to close to the North Korean border. North Koreans made all of the Pueblo members involved with the crime sign a paper saying they wouldn't do that ever again. The prisoners were taken to a second compound after signing the papers. They were then forced to read and study propaganda materials and if the prisoners refused to do so, they got
Warhol had almost been pronounced dead but shockingly survived. The criminal who shot Warhol was Valerie Solanas. According to Solanas, Warhol had lost one of her scripts. Solanas decided to invite Warhol into the factory to then shoot him. He screamed multiple times not to shoot him but of course Salonas did not listen. Warhol was shot three times and fell to the floor. He was brought to Columbus hospital and pronounced dead but doctors brought him back to life and he has survived.
On October 31, 1968 President Johnson brought the bombing to a stop five days before the presidential election. The North vietnamese raid was said to be completely stopped on November 1, 1968. They called this action Operation Rolling Thunder. The only way he was able to stop this was by getting the Hanoi to let the South Vietnamese join into the peace talks. President Johnson did not have many rejections he had most people's support in the situation. The one person that did not like his action was Saigon. He thought the U.S had made an unclear declaration of stopping the
Neither Nixon nor Humphrey received anything more than 50 percent of the vote in the election. Nixon did beat Humphrey by a little less than 500,000 votes. Nixon campaigned to design to reach the ¨silent majority¨ of middle class and working Americans. He said he would bring us together again and many Americans were happy to hear of peace coming back to their streets. Foreign policy was a big part in the election. He aso said he would find a way to ¨peace with honor¨ in Vietnam. Nixon never stated how he would do so but Americans believed him anyways. During his presidency, Nixon saw some huge changes in U.S. Cold War foreign policy. His promise to bring peace with honor in Vietnam was very hard to succeed. South Vietnam ended up falling to the communist forces in 1975 and American troops were not withdrawn until