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Plot to destroy national landmarks using dynamite is uncovered by New York policeman Raymond Wood.

Plot to blow up U.S. landmarks is uncovered in New York on February 16, 1965. Targets to blow up American landmarks: The Statue of Liberty in New York, the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, The Shrine of Liberty in Pennsylvania, and the Washington Monument in Washington DC. View of vacant lot near the Woodland apartments in New York City. Bomb squad men moving package of dynamite. Bomb squad truck moving through city streets. The plot was organized by Robert Steele Collier, Walter Augustus Bowe, and Khaleel Sultran Sayyed of Black Liberation Front (BLF) and also a Canadian women, Michelle Duclos, of a Quebec separatist party. Uncover police man Raymond Wood is seen getting an award for uncovering the plot.

Date: 1965, February 16
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070998
During press conference, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson shares query received from a woman asking why the U.S. is fighting in Vietnam

Artist's sketch of U.S. Army field grade officer. Sketches of soldiers, arms, and equipment, including tanks, machine guns, missiles. President Lyndon B. Johnson, addressing the nation, relates receiving a letter from a woman who doesn't understand why America is fighting in Vietnam. Two U.S. Army captains in jungle fatigues, walk past a helmeted tank crewman, in Vietnam. Closeup of Vietnamese woman holding her crying baby. View of man on his haunches over a fire in destroyed building. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1965, July 28
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071031
1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident brings the U.S. into direct, active involvment in the Vietnam conflict

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 4, 1964, announcing that he is ordering U.S. military forces to respond to an incident involving hostile action by North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin. View of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Constellation (CV-64) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam. Next, pilots are seen walking on flight deck of the carrier,USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14). Behind them are A-3B Skywarriors of VAH-4 "Fourrunners," Det. B (tail code "ZB"). One displays BuNo 142255. Clear view, from another aircraft overhead, of a U.S. carrier-based Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircraft diving and firing a rocket at a target in North Vietnam and pulling out over hills afterwards. View of another rocket headed toward a target in hills, followed by fairly close views of an A-4 making another attack. U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert MacNamara, broadcasting that "We seek no wider war."

Date: 1964
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071038
U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Training exercise

U.s. Coast Guard crew members run from their hangar to their HH-52 Search and Rescue helicopter, parked on a pier. They don personal equipment and board the helicopter which then takes off. View from the cockpit as the chopper heads toward orange smoke from a flare in the waters close to shore. It lands, close to a man, in the water. View from inside the HH-52 as the rescue crew performs a platform pickup. A crew member deploys a steel grate platform and assists the man onto the platform, from the water.The crew member then folds the platform into the helicopter, which takes off and flies away.

Date: 1963
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071056
Troop ship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) transports soldiers back home from Europe right after World War II

The troopship USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176) is seen being guided by tugboats as she makes her way to the pier, while carrying U.S. troops home from Europe at end of World War 2. View of the upper deck jammed with soldiers, waving happily. A large banner is displayed showing Division patch of the Tenth Armored "Tiger" Division and the key places they operated in Germany as the first im General Patton's Third Army in Germany, during the war. More views of soldiers waving. Many stand in the ship's lifeboats. Troops carrying their gear in dufflebags as they disembark from the ship. Friends and relatives standing behind a fence waiting to greet the returning soldiers.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071107
Soldiers returning home from Europe after World War II, disembark from the troopship, USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176)

Several U.S. Army officers pose, upon arriving home from Europe on the troopship, USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176). Several uniformed women officers descend the gangplank from the ship, followed by soldiers carrying their personal gear in dufflebags. To the side of the gangway, a banner for the 10th Armored Division is partially seen. The troops disembark single file. View towards the ship superstructure shows it filled with those waiting to leave. A soldier with a roster stands at the top of the gangway, checking off names of soldiers as they pass.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071108