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Radar operators aboard USS Essex (CVA-9) during U.S. Marine deployment to Beirut, Lebanon. Ship's position plotted.

Operations aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier, USS Essex (CVA-9) during amphibious deployment of U.S. Marines to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1958. Sailor writes information on plexiglass board as he receives it through headset earphones. Sailors monitor radar scopes. Room is dimly lit and light reflects off their faces as they receive information and converse on interphone. Radar man, holds mike and speaks a while monitoring scope. Navigator plots positions on a navigation chart in chart room aboard the USS Essex. Chart and notes indicate the ship's position in the Mediterranean, as 270 miles from Nicosia, Cyprus, and 480 miles from Beirut, Lebanon. (Note on chart states that flight over Cyprus is prohibited.)

Date: 1958, July
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039924
Marines disembark in full battle gear from LVPT-5 at beach in Beirut, Lebanon, during crisis.

U.S. Marines dispatched to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1958. LVPT-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked, Personnel) moving in the surf toward the beach and onto it. Ramp dropped and marines disembark in full battle gear. Second LVPT-5 moves up to the beach. Marines disembark on the double. Interior of LVPT-5, ramp lowered and marines move inland and over a sand dune. Lone Marine moves up over a sand dune and he waves to his buddies. Group of marines with rifles over shoulders, moves over the dune.

Date: 1958, July
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039922
U.S. Army Military Police on duty in Korea and Beirut Lebanon

Honor Guard of UN troops from various nations stand at entrance to the so-called "Peace Pagoda," where negotiations were conducted to end the Korean conflict. U.S. Military Police Officers escort Major General George G. Finch, USAF, Chief negotiator for the U.S. followed by MP officers escorting Lieutenant General, William K. Harrison, Jr. United States Army, Senior Delegate, United Nations Command Delegation, who would sign the truce documents. Separate sequence shows U.S. Army MPs and U.S. Navy Shore Patrol (SP) patrolling streets in Beirut Lebanon, in 1958. MPs talk with a local policeman and point to a map of the Town of Beirut, posted on a wall

Date: 1953
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070825
Lyndon Johnson meets locals and dignitaries during visits to Greece, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran

United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) waves at a crowd in Iran while standing in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible during an official visit to the Middle East and Southern Europe. A huge crowd listen to a speech by Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) in Greece. Cameraman readies his camera to capture Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech. Lyndon B. Johnson delivers a speech behind the podium, about the hopes “…We, of United States have for the future in this broad area of the world”. On Lyndon B. Johnson’s right is his daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson. From his convertible, Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with people. United States Air Force Two, a Boeing 707 carrying Lyndon B. Johnson, arrives at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. Lady Bird Johnson alights aircraft with Lyndon B. Johnson. Airplane door showing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Lebanese Foreign Minister, Philippe Takla, after Johnson disembarked from Air Force Two. Photographers capture shots of Lyndon B. Johnson arriving at Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran aka Shah of Iran, and Iranian Prime Minister Asadollah Alam in the Golestan Palace. Lyndon B. Johnson in a meeting with Turkish President Cemal Gürsel, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Cemal Erkin and Prime Minister Mustafa İsmet İnönü. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, during official visit to Nicosia, Cyprus. Cypriot Parliament in Nicosia. Vice President of Cyprus Fazıl Küçük attends. Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson pose together with King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika of Hannover in Tatoi Palace, Athens. Lyndon B. Johnson confers with Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Turkish people with American and Turkish flags listen to Lyndon B. Johnson. View of Ancient Greek Acropolis ruins. Lyndon B. Johnson says in his speech, “Thousands of years before man set foot upon the shores of our New World, great glories of civilization have been wrought here in the lands of the Middle East”.

Date: 1962, August
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078544
General Adams, Ambassadors McClintock and Robert Murphy and General Chehab meet in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanon Crisis.

U.S. Army officers and officials in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanon Crisis. Commanding General of U.S. Army Forces in the Middle East Paul DeWitt Adams, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert Mills McClintock, Personal representative of U.S. representative to Lebanon Robert Daniel Murphy and Commander-in-Chief of the Lebanese Army General Chehab standing and talking in front of the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. An officer standing behind them. Photographers taking pictures. The officials get into cars. The cars leave. The American Land Forces Honor Guard standing in a row along the side of the road in front of the Embassy. A man takes pictures.

Date: 1958, July
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066523
Demonstrations at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Soviet Union due to U.S. intervention in the Lebanon Crisis.

Demonstrations in Moscow, Soviet Union during the Lebanon Crisis. A huge crowd in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during a demonstration against sending of American troops to Lebanon. A banner reading 'Hands Off Lebanon'. The plaque of the U.S. Embassy. People hanging signs on the embassy gates. Police trying to control the crowd. Policemen getting a boy down from the gate. A clash between the police and the crowd. The Lebanon coastline. U.S. troops and tanks on a beach. Landing crafts with soldiers arrive on the beach. The soldiers moving in columns. Lebanese people talking to American soldiers. British troops in Jordan unloading supplies from aircraft. Military equipment being loaded in jeep trailers. A large crowd in Syria. President of the United Arab Republic Gamal Abdel Nasser standing with other officials, waves from the balcony of a building. A crowd cheering. Policemen in front of the crowd.

Date: 1958, July 21
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066507