{"id":3240,"date":"2014-10-23T17:41:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/a-lone-voice-against-the-vietnam-war\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:12:21","slug":"a-lone-voice-against-the-vietnam-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/a-lone-voice-against-the-vietnam-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a lone voice against the Vietnam War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14961\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sean-orourke-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14961\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14961 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sean-orourke-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Sean O'Rourke\" width=\"179\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/250;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sean O&#8217;Rourke<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fifty years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which opened the door for America\u2019s involvement in Vietnam. Among the two dissenting voices in Congress was Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, who gave an impassioned and historic speech against the resolution\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n<p>Furman communication studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke will examine the speech and Morse\u2019s prescient arguments against what would become the most controversial war in U.S. history when he speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 29 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.<\/p>\n<p>His lecture\u2014\u201c50 Years Later: Senator Wayne Morse, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Vietnam War\u201d\u2014begins at noon.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke\u2019s talk is the sixth of eight consecutive lectures presented by Furman professors during the fall.\u00a0 All lectures are free and begin at noon on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-2185 or e-mail Marie Newman-Rogers at <a href=\"mailto:marie.newman-rogersfurman.edu\">marie.newman-rogersfurman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which opened the door for America\u2019s involvement in Vietnam. Among the two dissenting voices in Congress was Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, who gave an impassioned and historic speech against the resolution\u2019s passage.\u00a0Furman communication studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke will examine the speech and Morse\u2019s prescient arguments against what would become the most controversial war in U.S. history when he speaks at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 29 at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman.\u00a0His lecture\u2014\u201c50 Years Later: Senator Wayne Morse, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Vietnam War\u201d\u2014begins at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33319,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/33319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}