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Camp Pendleton 1950's shell-shock video

By Jamie Reno / Military Blogger

Published August 25, 2010 at 12:03 PM PDT

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

If you think post-traumatic stress disorder is a new phenomenon, check out this fascinating video made right here at Camp Pendleton in 1954, the Korean War era, with Leonard Nimoy (long before Star Trek fame) and Fess Parker of Davy Crockett. Produced by the Marine Corps, this film looks at the role of the Division Psychiatrist in dealing with Marines with varying degrees of what they then called combat fatigue, or shell shock. Leonard Nimoy and Fess Parker play shell-shocked Marines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPF-Tx1QmVY&feature=player_embedded#!

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Jamie Reno blogged about the military for KPBS' Home Post blog. Jamie has been the San Diego correspondent for Newsweek magazine for nearly two decades, for which he has written or co-written cover stories on such subjects as the Enron collapse, Napster, the war on terrorism, media conglomeration, the Heaven's Gate religious cult, teen culture, and new cancer treatments. He has also written for such publications as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, People, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. Jamie has won more than 20 Society of Professional Journalist and Press Club awards, including the Press Club's Best of Show award in 1997, 1998 and 2002.

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