Millions more would be mobilized in the coming years, and when all was said and done, some 58,000 of them would die in combat. When Jones left the series in 1964, Americas involvement in Vietnam was roughly a year away from commencing its overt military phase. As Kennedy himself put it, Now we have a problem making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.īy the time director Chuck Jones made his 23rd Road Runner and Coyote film, there were nearly 17,000 Americans in South Vietnam serving as advisors. The previous year, East Germany erected one of the most visible symbols of the Cold War, the infamous Berlin Wall. The year 1962 featured a failed invasion of Cuba by U.S.-trained insurgents. The young president strongly felt the need to make such a move. Kennedy.Īlthough Eisenhower backed French forces against the Cong-san with several billion dollars, Kennedy decided to make a deeper commitment against Communist forces in Southeast Asia. Among those who knew the term well were President Dwight Eisenhower and his successor John F. Virtually no one in America was then familiar with this appellation, but over the next decade that would change drastically. Roughly translated, Cong-san meant Communist from this term came the phrase Viet Cong. Coyote made its debut, a North Vietnamese commander named Ho Chi Minh led his Cong-san forces against South Vietnam for the first time. At some point during 1956, the same year in which the above cartoon featuring the Road Runner and Wile E.
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