Radio

Michael Hirsh’s ‘My Vietnam War’ Radio Doc

September 27, 2017

WGCU, the NPR station in Fort Myers, Florida, recently ran "My Vietnam War—During, After, and Way After," a one-hour special produced by Michael Hirsh, an award-winning television journalist and producer who served as a 22-year-old…

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‘Veterans in Politics’ radio

December 14, 2015

"Veterans in Politics, " the weekly radio show produced by Steve Sanson and hosted by Jim Jonas (above), will feature an interview on December 19 at 1:45 pm Pacific Time with award-winning screenplay writer David Bryant Perkins focusing on…

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Sixties Doc: 'Radio Unnameable'

September 24, 2012

  The new documentary film, Radio Unnameable , has been making the rounds of the film festival circuit in the last six months, and is playing now through October 2nd at the Film Forum in…

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Doc Producer Looking for 'Hanoi Hannah' GI Listeners

March 30, 2012

Former Vietnam War television correspondent Don North is working with Vietnamese and French film producers who are in the planning stages for a documentary on "Hanoi Hannah, " the Vietnamese woman who broadcast pro-communist propaganda…

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Martlantes on Veterans Radio this Saturday

October 20, 2011

Karl Marlantes, the former Marine and the author of the acclaimed Vietnam War novel Matterhorn , as well as a powerful new memoir, What Is Like to Go To War , will be the featured…

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Chris Noel Medal Petition

January 31, 2011

A movement is afoot to lobby the President of the United States to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Chris Noel, the one-time Hollywood starlet who was a popular AFVN radio disk jockey in…

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New Veterans Radio Show

July 23, 2009

Former Marine and long-time VVA member Patrick W. Welch, who sits on the VVA National Board of Directors and is the director of Erie County Veterans Service Agency in Buffalo, N.Y., is the host of…

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Peter Rollins on Hollywood and the Military

August 15, 2008

Peter C. Rollins , who recently retired as an English prof at Oklahoma State University, where he is Regents Professor Emeritus, has long specialized in film studies. Rollins,  a U.S. Marine Vietnam War veteran who holds a PhD from…

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Invitation to May 7th Talk of the Nation

May 5, 2008

National Public Radio is inviting VVA members to a special broadcast of “Talk of the Nation” at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7. The show will discuss the Buffalo,…

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