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VIETNAM WAR 1
AFP-60G 16mm; VTM-60G Beta SP; NET-61 DigiBeta (at 01:11:32:00); Beta SP
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Newsreel
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00:44:57:00 B W 1966 WS Looking up at US Air Force airplane flying 00:45:04:00 B W 1966 WS American GIs in jungle 00:45:05:00 B W 1966 CU American soldier firing rifle 00:45:08:00 B W 1966 MS GI running thru bushes 00:45:10:00 B W 1966 MS Vietnamese soldiers 00:45:16:00 B W 1966 WS South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem at attention 00:45:17:00 B W 1966 MS Vietnamese tanks in Saigon 00:45:21:00 B W 1966 MS Soldiers in Saigon 00:45:25:00 B W 1963 WS Presidential Palace in Saigon after CIA-sponsored coup d'etat killing President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 00:45:28:00 B W 1966 WS Vietnamese watching fire 00:45:31:00 B W 1966 WS Tank in Saigon surrounded by people 00:45:33:00 B W 1966 MS Machine gunner on airplane 00:45:36:00 B W 1966 WS Helicopter 00:45:38:00 B W 1966 CU American GI 00:45:41:00 B W 1966 MS GI getting out of helicopter into rice paddy 00:45:45:00 B W 1966 WS GI wading thru rice paddy 00:45:50:00 B W 1966 WS US army truck carrying soldiers 00:45:52:00 B W 1966 WS South Vietnamese soldiers 00:45:55:00 B W 1966 MS Vietnamese family 00:45:56:00 B W 1966 MS Vietnamese family takes shelter under canvas 00:45:57:00 B W 1966 CU Woman on stretcher 00:46:00:00 B W 1966 MS Crying young Vietnamese boy 00:46:01:00 B W 1966 MS Bomb explosion 00:46:03:00 B W 1966 WS Fires on devastated US airfield after Vietcong attack 00:46:10:00 B W 1966 MS US airman waving 00:46:11:00 B W 1966 MS Pilot getting into airplane 00:46:13:00 B W 1966 MS American bomber taxiing on runway 00:46:18:00 B W 1966 AV Above airstrip after attack 00:46:27:00 B W 1966 WS LBJ at podium 00:46:30:00 B W 1966 CU LBJ delivering speech on his commitment to Vietnam War 00:46:39:00 B W 1966 MS Woman taking notes 00:46:39:00 B W 1966 MS Men in draft call line at Selective Service office 00:46:42:00 B W 1966 CU Man filling out application form 00:46:45:00 B W 1966 MS Men taking oath of alliegance 00:46:46:00 B W 1966 MS LBJ at White House desk 00:46:51:00 B W 1966 MS Loading bomb onto airplane 00:46:53:00 B W 1966 WS Man on airplane wing 00:46:55:00 B W 1966 MS Air Force men attaching bombs to aircraft wings 00:46:57:00 B W 1966 WS Jeeps driving 00:46:58:00 B W 1966 MS Soldiers in trench 00:47:00:00 B W 1966 MS American GIs in jungle 00:47:05:00 B W 1966 WS Airplane taking off 00:47:07:00 B W 1966 WS Airplane taking off from aircraft carrier 00:47:16:00 B W 1966 AV Bombs being dropped down upon North Vietnam 00:47:27:00 B W 1966 AV From airplane as bombs are dropped 00:47:38:00 B W 1966 WS US aircraft carrier 00:47:38:00 B W 1966 US fighter plane 00:47:40:00 B W 1966 AV Bombing 00:47:55:00 B W 1966 MS American soldiers 00:47:56:00 B W 1966 CU Screaming Vietnamese women 00:47:57:00 B W 1966 MS GI running 00:48:00:00 B W 1966 MS GIs lying on ground 00:48:04:00 B W 1966 CU Soldier shooting 00:48:05:00 B W 1966 CU Pilot of US bomber 00:48:09:00 B W 1966 Bomb drops 00:48:15:00 B W 1966 CU LBJ speech on limited bombing of North Vietnam 00:48:27:00 B W 1966 MS Vietnam Peace Conference in Paris - CUs of leaders of various delegations 00:48:32:00 B W 1966 WS Soldiers getting off airplane 00:48:36:00 B W 1966 MS Decorated US officials 00:48:38:00 B W 1966 WS Parade on street, girls run behind 00:48:41:00 B W 1966 WS Battlefield - South Vietnamese creep thru stream 00:48:54:00 B W 1966 MS Remains of bomb victim 00:48:57:00 B W 1966 WS Asian house 00:49:00:00 B W 1969 Man reading newspaper 00:49:01:00 B W 1969 CU Newspaper headline announcing Ho Chi Minh death 00:49:03:00 B W 1960s CU Ho Chi Minh 00:49:04:00 B W 1969 MS Cyclist w Ho Chi Minh's picture 00:49:06:00 B W 1970 MS Cambodian leader Prince Sihanouk in Paris Sihanouk deposed as ruler of Cambodia 00:49:15:00 B W 1970 CU Lon Nol, US-sponsored coup leader after deposing Sihanouk 00:49:18:00 B W 1970 WS Cambodian parliamentary assembly 00:49:21:00 B W 1970 CU Lon Nol making speech 00:49:23:00 B W 1970 CU April 30, 1970 TV speech - Nixon announcing US incursion in Cambodia to arrest flow of munitions from North - South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh trail (Cambodian Incursion Address) 00:49:35:00 B W 1970 MS US tanks 00:49:37:00 B W 1970 WS Soldiers & tanks on the Cambodian border 00:49:55:00 B W 1971 WS Saigon government building 00:50:00:00 B W 1971 CU Signs on trees: NGUYEN VAN THIEU for PRESIDENT 00:50:01:00 B W 1971 CU Vietnamese woman voting 00:50:02:00 B W 1971 MS Nguyen van Thieu voting 00:50:07:00 B W 1971 MS Vietnamese motorcade 00:50:12:00 B W 1971 Ft Benning, Georgia, March 29, 1971 - Lt William L Calley leaves Court Martial after being found guilty of My Lai massacre 00:50:21:00 B W 1971 MS American flag being lowered (withdrawals continued of US forces, as South Vietnamese forces took over) 00:50:24:00 B W 1971 MS South Vietnamese soldier saluting 00:50:27:00 B W 1971 MS South Vietnamese flag being raised 00:50:30:00 B W 1971 MS Group of soldiers 00:50:31:00 B W 1971 WS Line of jeeps & military trucks in South Vietnam 00:50:37:00 B W 1971 CU Ex-Department of Defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg after leaking the Pentagon Papers to the press 00:50:40:00 B W 1971 CU 1971 New York Times headline re Pentagon Papers 00:50:42:00 B W 1971 CU Boxes of top secret papers containing US Vietnam War policy 00:50:49:00 B W 1971 CU New York Times headline re Pentagon Papers 00:50:53:00 B W 1966 MS French troops in Indochina rice paddy 00:51:04:00 B W 1966 WS Airplane dropping bomb 00:51:06:00 B W 1966 WS Bomb hits 00:51:09:00 B W 1966 WS Cannons being fired 00:51:12:00 B W 1966 WS Bombs hit 00:51:13:00 B W 1966 WS Thatched house on fire 00:51:16:00 B W 1966 MS French soldier amid fire 00:51:23:00 B W 1966 MS French & Indochinese officials 00:51:28:00 B W 1966 WS French officials on dirt road 00:51:30:00 B W 1966 MS Inspection of troops 00:51:31:00 B W 1966 MS French soldier being decorated 00:51:35:00 B W 1966 CU Military medals 00:51:36:00 B W 1966 MS Soldiers in trucks 00:51:46:00 B W 1966 MS Wagon holding wood passes Indochina border control 00:51:47:00 B W 1966 MS Soldier checks back of truck containing family 00:51:48:00 B W 1966 WS Border checkpoint, trucks passing 00:51:56:00 B W 1966 MS Asian soldier 00:51:57:00 B W 1966 MS Child in rice paddy 00:51:58:00 B W 1966 MS Workers in rice paddy 00:52:00:00 B W 1966 MS Soldier passing village 00:52:27:00 B W 1966 CU Tank driver 00:52:31:00 B W 1966 MS Minesweeper in front of tank 00:52:36:00 B W 1966 Tanks passing 00:52:38:00 B W 1966 MS Truck passing, smoke above 00:52:46:00 B W 1966 MS Soldiers sitting, using walkie-talkie 00:52:50:00 B W 1966 WS Man walking from building amid smoke 00:52:53:00 B W 1966 WS Army camp 00:53:00:00 B W 1966 WS Aircraft carrier 00:53:02:00 B W 1966 WS War airplane flying 00:53:04:00 B W 1966 AV From bomber as bombs away 00:53:19:00 B W 1966 WS Anti Vietnam war demonstration 00:53:23:00 B W 1966 CU Martin Luther King, Jr appealing to stop the bombing 00:53:30:00 B W 1966 MS General William Westmoreland delivering speech 00:53:38:00 B W 1966 MS Soldier crawling on ground 00:53:53:00 B W 1966 WS 9th Marines at church in En Wah 00:53:55:00 B W 1966 MS Injured marine supported by 2 others 00:53:58:00 B W 1966 MS Emergency medical treatment 00:54:01:00 B W 1966 MS Statuette of Jesus Christ the Savior & Protector 00:54:02:00 B W 1966 MS Injured marine 00:54:05:00 B W 1966 Marine in pain w leg injury 00:54:08:00 B W 1966 AV From airplane as bomb drops 00:54:15:00 B W 1966 WS Marines pulling out from church 00:54:17:00 B W 1966 MS Marines carrying stretchers w the wounded 00:54:21:00 B W 1966 MS Soldier grabs helmet, runs for cover 00:54:25:00 B W 1966 CU Soldier chewing, ear to the ground 00:54:27:00 B W 1966 WS Bombing 00:54:28:00 B W 1966 MS Wounded soldiers on stretchers being laid out side by side 00:54:35:00 B W 1966 MS Soldiers taking communion 00:54:39:00 B W 1966 MS Soldiers loading cannon 00:54:40:00 B W 1966 WS Bombing 00:54:49:00 B W 1966 MS Infantry in jungle 00:54:51:00 B W 1966 MS Stretcher-bearing soldiers 00:54:55:00 B W 1966 MS Helicopter lifting off 00:54:58:00 B W 1966 WS Peace demonstrators on bridge during March on the Pentagon 00:55:01:00 B W 1966 MS Demonstrators w banner 00:55:02:00 B W 1966 WS Military police in line 00:55:04:00 B W 1966 MS Military police being offered flower by girl 00:55:08:00 B W 1966 MS Military police wielding baton in scuffle 00:55:10:00 B W 1966 WS Soldiers walking across footbridge 00:55:13:00 B W 1966 MS Redevelopment camp - tying knot 00:55:16:00 B W 1966 WS People in rice paddy 00:55:19:00 B W 1966 MS Cheering crowd 00:55:20:00 B W 1966 MS Candidates for election including peace candidates 00:55:27:00 B W 1966 MS Political posters as people pass 00:55:27:00 B W 1966 MS Woman voting in South Vietnamese election 00:55:30:00 B W 1966 MS US observers in South Vietnam election 00:55:32:00 B W 1966 WS Saigon - swearing-in ceremony 00:55:34:00 B W 1966 MS Eternal flame in Saigon 00:55:36:00 B W 1966 MS President Nguyen van Thieu & Vice President Ky on platform
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