EVENT SCHEDULE
Johnson City, Texas

Monday, April 5  

10:00 a.m.		Musical Prelude U.S. Army Medical Command Band, Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
10:30 a.m.		Opening Ceremony Bill Goshen, Master of Ceremonies, Vietnam veteran William Pollock, Keynote Speaker, Vietnam veteran Ceremony includes the National Anthem, U.S. Military Joint Services Color Guard, LBJ High school students singing “America the Beautiful,” a poetry reading by Gold Star Mother Dorothy Schafernocker, Veterans Honor Guard, Twenty-One Gun Salute, Taps, a “Last Combat Patrol” salute by the Texas Association of Vietnam Veterans (Austin Chapter), and a final salute provided by a Bell UH-1 “Huey” Helicopter.
11:30 a.m.		The Moving Wall opens for public viewing
3:00 p.m.		Special Program Richard Verrone, The Vietnam Project, Texas Tech University
8:00 p.m.		Taps at The Moving Wall

11:45 a.m.		Band Concert Johnson City’s LBJ High School Band, 45 minute concert
6:30 p.m.		Evening Program Music Concert Johnson City residents Joni Topper, Ernest Topper, Rick Runckle, and Scott Crofts Vietnam Veteran’s Presentation Bill Goshen, Marble Falls, Texas. Bill is the author of War Paint: The 1st Infantry Division’s LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam. He was dropped into enemy territory as part of six men long-range patrol teams. Seriously wounded in 1969, he endured sixteen months of hospitalization. Following his talk he will sign copies of his book.
8:00 p.m.		Taps at The Moving Wall

6:30 p.m.		Evening Program Music Concert Johnson City Community Singers, Beverly Voron director
		Vietnam Veteran’s Presentation Barney Hulett, Fredericksburg, Texas. Barney is the author of Twenty Bosses. He was a pilot, flying both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. While assigned to the Executive Flight Detachment he flew Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He flew a variety of aircraft during his year in Vietnam. Following his talk he will sign copies of his book.
8:00 p.m.		Taps at The Moving Wall

1:00 p.m.		Special Program Tom Striegler, Fredericksburg, Texas. Tom is a Vietnam veteran. He served in the field artillery as a forward observer and as a fire direction officer from 1967 to 1968. Tom’s presentation will “put a human face to some of the names on the wall.”
2:00 pm.		Special Program Bill Wiemers, Stonewall, Texas. Bill is a retired Air Force chaplain and he will describe his experiences during his tour of duty in Vietnam. His presentation will focus on the important role military chaplains performed in the war.
6:30 p.m.		Evening Program We Were Soldiers The Paramount Pictures film We Were Soldiers, starring Mel Gibson, will be shown after an introduction. Based on the best-selling book We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, by Hal Moore and Joseph Galloway, the movie graphically depicts the bitter fight at Landing Zone X-Ray in Vietnam’s Ia Drang valley in November 1965. The movie also shows the heavy emotional toll suffered by families back home. Introduction in the Program Tent. The 2 hour, 18 minute film will be shown in the visitor center theaters. This film is rated R.
8:00 p.m.		Taps at The Moving Wall

		No Programs Scheduled
8:00 p.m.		Taps at The Moving Wall

10:00 a.m.		The Infantryman’s Vietnam Experience Living History Demonstration, Nimitz Museum Living History Detachment, Fredericksburg, Texas, Jeff Hunt coordinating
11:00 a.m.		Special Program and Book Signing Ron Steinman, New York, NY. Journalist Ron Steinman was NBC’s bureau chief in Saigon from 1966 to 1968. He has written three books about Vietnam, The Soldier’s Story: Vietnam in Their Own Words, Women in Vietnam, and Inside Television’s First War: A Saigon Journal. The Soldier’s Story contains Steinman’s riveting interviews with seventy-seven soldiers. The book was based on Steinman’s television documentary by the same title. The Soldier’s Story and Inside Television’s First War will be available for purchase.
12:00 Noon		Special Program Steve Maxner, The Vietnam Project, Texas Tech University
12:30 p.m.		The Infantryman’s Vietnam Experience Living History Demonstration, Nimitz Museum Living History Detachment, Fredericksburg, Texas
1:30 p.m.		Musical Concert (Tentative – Goodfellow AFB Choral Group)
2:00 p.m.		Special Program and Book Signing David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Associate Editor at The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. He will talk about his book They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967. Maraniss’s vivid narrative describes three disparate events thatoccurred within hours of each other: a student anti-war protest in Wisconsin that turns violent, an army patrol in Vietnam that turns deadly, and a U.S. President, Lyndon Johnson, in Washington that turns to his advisors and laments, “How are we ever going to win?” He will sign copies of They Marched Into Sunlight. Some of his other titles will be available for purchase including First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton.
3:00 p.m.		Special Program Steve Maxner, The Vietnam Project, Texas Tech University
3:30 p.m.		The Infantryman’s Vietnam Experience Living History Demonstration, Nimitz Museum Living History Detachment, Fredericksburg, Texas
6:30 p.m.		Evening Program In The Shadow of the Blade In The Shadow of the Blade follows the 10,000 mile flight of a restored Vietnam-veteran Huey to forty-two Landing Zones across eight states in America as it again carries the soldiers who once relied on it for survival. More than fifty Vietnam helicopter pilots—and three children of pilots killed in action—flew in the Huey’s left seat. The result is a film that captures moving reunions, heart-wrenching stories, and the welcome home Vietnam veterans never received. Patrick and Cheryl Fries, producers of In the Shadow of the Blade, will introduce the film in the Program Tent and then it will be shown in the visitor center theaters.
8:00 p.m.		Taps at The Moving Wall

2:00 p.m.		Closing Ceremony
		The Moving Wall will be closed to the public.

Program Coordinator: Dave Schafer, Park Ranger
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park
PO Box 329
Johnson City, TX 78636
830-644-2420 or 830-868-7128 Ext. 244
fax 830-644-2835