(I know this story came out yesterday, but this is the new article from today's local paper)
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/10/19delveteransueso.htmlDel. veteran sues over anti-Kerry film
By VICTOR GRETO / The News Journal
10/19/2004
A Vietnam veteran who teaches at the University of Delaware filed a lawsuit Monday in Philadelphia against the makers of an anti-John Kerry documentary about the Vietnam War, claiming the film suggests he and another veteran fabricated details of wartime atrocities.
In the lawsuit, Kenneth J. Campbell, a UD associate professor of political science and director of the International Relations program there, said the footage of his 33-year-old conversation with a fellow Vietnam veteran about the massacre of a Vietnamese village by American soldiers was purposely taken out of context.
"He got a clip from an old documentary I was in" and misrepresented what happened, Campbell said<<<<snip>>>>>
According to the lawsuit, the narration over the conversation between Campbell and Camil implies they were making up the incident: "Their lurid fantasies of butchery in Vietnam were seized upon by John Kerry to help him organize the so-called 'Winter-Soldiers Investigation' - the template he would use to brand all Vietnam veterans," the narrator says.
Campbell said the original scene "comes off quite credibly and moving, but the way Sherwood spliced it and narrated it, it appears as if I'm prodding Scott about a fabrication," he said.
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