Barry
(pictured 2nd left)
1st returned to Vietnam when he made a trip
to Hanoi with Joan Baez (2nd right) as part of a peace delegation in December of ‘72. In
October Henry Kissinger made a speech stating “Peace is at hand” and “what
remains to be done can be settled in one more negotiating session with the
North Vietnamese negotiators.
Lasting, I would think, no more than three or four days.” Barry learned
the hard way that this speech actually turned out to be a bogus presidential
election campaign promise by the Nixon Administration to get reelected. He and the rest
of the peace delegation witnessed the power of a US bombing raid on Hanoi that has been remembered as “The Christmas Bombings of Hanoi.”