JW Marriott Austin
American Experience: The Movement and the "Madman"
Production Company: Glen Park Films LLC
Produced for: American Experience / PBS
Executive Producer (Production Company): Robert Levering
Executive Producer (network/platform): Cameo George
Country or Territory where first released: USA
Synopsis:
The Movement and the “Madman” shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam, including a threat to use nuclear weapons. At the time, protestors had no idea how influential they could be and how many lives they may have saved.