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.
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.
The crew men work on flight deck with fire hoses all over the deck area of USS Oriskany (CVA-34) aircraft carrier in South China Sea, off South Vietnam. Several men holding fire hoses and spread water all over the deck above a fire burning below. smoke is seen seeping through the deck. A helicopter flies over the deck area. Men running through smoke to rescue crewmen. Four men carry an injured on a stretcher. Smoke spreads all over the ship.
Aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany, conducting flight operations from Yankee Station, in South China Sea off Vietnam. Several A4-E aircraft return and land on the carrier deck, engaging the restraining cable, without incident. (A fire broke out on the ship from accidental igniting of flares, in a locker below the flight deck, on this day. It is not clear whether these aircraft landed before, during, or after that event.)