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History Matters: Linebacker II

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published December 19, 2017 at 6:45 AM CST
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Airs Tuesday, December 19, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner takes us back to 1972 and operation Linebacker II, which took place 45 years ago this Month.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.
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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”
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