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Television let Americans back at home see what the war was really like. For example, President Johnson was telling the people of America that we were winning - when we were not. For the first time, television let Americans know the truth. Everyday people saw pictures and video of POWs (prisoners of war), dead Americans, dead Vietnamese, and the bombings of Vietnamese civilians.

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