Social impact of the Cultural Revolution and the deification of Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Tse Tung (or Mao Zedong) in Beijing, China. Civilians walk on a street. Signs painted on walls. Chinese citizens get their news from charts placed on the walls. The civilians read newspapers on the streets. The civilians gathered in front of a building. They read the charts placed on the building's wall. A large crowd of uniformed Red Guard youth gathered in a square and each of them is reading Mao's Little Red Book (also sometimes called the Mao bible). The Red Guard begin to read aloud in unison, from Mao's book.
Senator J William Fulbright in United States. Television interviewer asks Fulbright about Communism and China. He asks whether he equates them with Adolf Hitler. Fulbright denies saying China has a totally different history. He says that after Opium War Chinese have reason to hate west and people of west must try to rectify the wrong beliefs about them. He says that we (senators) give advice to the President about what a common man thinks and feel about President's decisions. Fulbright talks about Russian decisions in Cuban War and other wars.
The impact of the Cultural Revolution and the deification of Mao Zedong in Beijing, China. A bus and trucks loaded with Chinese teenagers and young adults moves on streets. A large crowd of organized youth walks in the streets with their belongings in packs on their backs (Red Guard recruits or a round up for re-education?). Lined up children walk in the streets. A portrait of Mao Zedong placed at a building entrance. The youth come out of the building and enter buses in an organized fashion. Lines of buses, carrying pictures of Chairman Mao in their windshields, move on the streets. Men on cycle carts. Trees on either side of the streets. Many rows of bicycles parked on the street. Sign marks painted on a street. A street sign in many languages reading: "Anti Revisionist Street."
The impact of the Cultural Revolution and the deification of Mao Zedong in Beijing, China. A traffic policeman directs traffic. Men work on scaffoldings. Men ride bicycles through the streets. Posters placed on walls. Portraits of Mao Zedong. Men on scaffolding installing a large picture of Chairman Mao with Chinese people holding up copies of Mao's books. A huge sign depicting workers and an armed soldier marching together. Shop windows displaying goods, all display images of Chairman Mao, as well. A toy store with toy military vehicles and guns.
A celebration during the Cultural Revolution and the deification of Mao Zedong in Beijing, China. A large crowd of civilians gathered in a square during the celebration. Paper lanterns seen. Buildings in the background. The civilians cheer and celebrate, all waving their copies of Mao's Little Red Book (sometimes called the Mao bible). Dignitaries stand on a raised platform. Cho En Lai addresses the gathering. Mao Zedong stands nearby. Communist Chinese leaders lead the crowds in chants. A band plays and masses of Chinese march with flags and moving a gigantic image of Mao Zedong. The sky above Tiananmen Square is filled with balloons. A mass of Red Guard Chinese youth march with huge mural Poster depicting Chinese workers. Images of Marx, Lenin and Stalin are carried in the parade. Large crowds of Chinese people march in the Tiananmen Square, waving their copies of Mao's Little Red Book.
U.S. Navy RA-5C Vigilante and F-4B Phantom II aircraft parked on port side of flight deck on an aircraft carrier underway in the South China Sea, during the Vietnam War. Crewmen stand near the aircraft on the flight deck. RA-5C Vigilante taxis out from parking area.