Traffic on the streets of Saigon, Vietnam. A Vietnamese girl carrying an umbrella moves along a side walk with vehicular traffic in the background. A sign in the background reads ' Continental Palace'. Three girls walk down the side walk. A sign reads ' Hertz Rent a car '. A man with a bicycle crosses a street with trees on both the sides.
Traffic on the streets of Saigon, Vietnam. Different vehicles move down a street. Cyclos, motorbikes, cars and bicycles on the street with bookstalls in the background along the sidewalk. Vietnamese girls carrying umbrella walk past the bookstalls. Vehicles in the foreground.
United States increases aid to South Vietnam in its war against Vietcong rebels, early in Vietnam War period. A group of military commanders take over the civilian government. U.S. soldiers stand near helicopter and listen to instructions from their commander. Soldiers board helicopters and patrol dense jungles and search out for Vietcong using helicopters. South Vietnamese soldiers with their rifles aboard a helicopter. Gunner in a helicopter points his machine gun towards ground. Vietnamese soldiers jump from helicopter as it lowers and run in the jungles.
Dedication of the "John F. Kennedy Square" in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese soldiers standing at attention at the side of the Notre Dame Cathedral of Saigon (01 Công xã Paris, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam). United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, and the South Vietnamese Prime Minister, Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, inspect South Vietnamese troops. A military band plays music. View of the square in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral of Saigon. Th Saigon Central Post Office (2 Công xã Paris, Bến Nghé, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam) is seen nearby. The square in front of Saigon's Roman Catholic Notre Dame Cathedral is renamed President John F. Kennedy Square, in honor of the late United States President John F. Kennedy. Vietnamese and White civilians witness the ceremony from across a street. ). Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge reads a speech behind a podium. Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh listens to the United States Ambassador’s speech. United States military officials in attendance. Ambassador Lodge and Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh jointly unveils a plaque to the memory of President John F. Kennedy. Plaque reads “Cong Truong Tong Thong John F. Kennedy”. Photographers take photos of the unveiling event. South Vietnamese soldiers standing at attention as a staff car drives away. Statue of the Virgin Mary in the square.
From a U.S. Information Service film entitled "A Threat to the Peace", describing the South Vietnamese people and forces, and their efforts against the Vietcong forces from the north. An illustration of globe. Map of Vietnam and neighboring countries. Devastated bridges and canals in South Vietnam. South Vietnamese children at work rebuilding huts. Scene of market. A man with a basket full of coconuts. Farmers in a field working the soil by hand and with ox. A man harvests grapes on a farm and collects them in a basket. Women study in school. Girls in kitchen prepare food. A man sprays insecticide chemicals in fields with a sprayer to kill mosquitos and eradicate malaria. A man teaches a girl at home. Students at a research laboratory. Students see an experiment. A soldier walks in between huts. View of damage from Vietcong forces, including bullet holes in the side of a community building, damaged equipment, a burned out van and a burned out car. (Vietnam War period).
South Vietnamese Army soldiers in anti-guerilla warfare training and ranger commando training during the Vietnam war. Soldiers crawling under razor wire and firing machine guns and artillery. Tanks firing rounds. A ship on the move. Water from dam flows into canals and then into the fields. South Vietnamese farmers work on fields. Vietnam shown on a map with an arrow. Narrator speaks to virtues of the South Vietnamese people fighting for freedom against communist forces.