The Green Berets at 50
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the release of one of John Wayne’s most controversial movies—The Green Berets.
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the release of one of John Wayne’s most controversial movies—The Green Berets.
When John Wayne arrived in Vietnam in the summer of 1966 to visit American troops at the height of the Vietnam War as part of a tour co-sponsored by the USO’s Hollywood Overseas Committee and the U.S. Department of Defense, he was still in the early phases of developing the 1968 feature film he would eventually direct and star in, The Green Berets.
