MoveOn.org Interviews Stone, Kovic in VideoVets Project
Director Oliver Stone's commercial for MoveOn.org and VideoVets.org, featuring Iraq war veteran John Bruhns, airs on CNN until Thursday. To commemorate the ad and its subject, MoveOn.org assembled an array of videos featuring Stone (above) and Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, Bruhns and the others interviewed in the project.Director Oliver Stone’s commercial for MoveOn.org and VideoVets.org, featuring Iraq war veteran John Bruhns, airs on CNN until Thursday. To commemorate the ad and its subject, MoveOn.org assembled an array of videos featuring Stone (above) and Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, Bruhns and the others interviewed in the project.
Click here to go directly to MoveOn.org’s VideoVets project page.
Or, watch the clips below:
Oliver Stone tears up as he talks about why he did the VideoVets project:
Ron Kovic looks back on his own experiences in Vietnam and how he came to know “the human cost of war”:
Check out the finished ad below:
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