"Join us for a talk by Nick Turse, author of the controversial and acclaimed Kill Anything That Moves (2013) about US war crimes during the war in Viet Nam, and The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. The event recorded at the University of Washington in January 2014 also featured a rare showing of the 1972 documentary ""Winter Soldier"" recorded at the historic Winter Soldier hearings conducted by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War and featured testimony from veterans about the war crimes they had committed. The program opens with clips from the movie to set the context. After his talk, Nick was joined by Bill Turley (noted scholar of the war in Viet Nam), Mike Dedrick (Veterans For Peace), and Judith Henchy, a South East Asia historian from the UW. The documentary ""Winter Soldier"" can be found online: Pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi79cTk7HP0 Pt 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCFhn5v0gU Pt 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Waa_o1-qBGg Pt 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0u9jdwIgM Pt 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BmGj6mXdwM Pt 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN4OmPmvK_g Pt 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asIyzNaNMmg About the Participants: Nick Turse is a historian, author, journalist, essayist and the associate editor and research director of the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com and the winner of a 2009 Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction as well as a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, In These Times, and regularly at TomDispatch. Turse is currently a fellow at New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War. A paperback edition of his book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Metropolitan Books) was published earlier this year. William S. Turley, (PhD, University of Washington) was born in Wallace, Idaho, and grew up in Washington state. During his gradua