Activities at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand. United States Air Force and Thai personnel inside the control tower at the air force base. A Thai personnel looks through binoculars. A U.S. KC-135 A aircraft taxis past the control tower to a flight line parking. Men in the control tower speak over the phone. KC-135 A aircraft lined up in the background as vehicles move about on the base. The tail section of a KC-135 aircraft in the foreground. Other aircraft lined up in the background. Troops get off the KC-135 A aircraft and carry their baggage along.
Anti-war groups hold a moratorium march in Washington D.C., United States. Peace activists and peace demonstrators outside Department of Justice building in Washington D.C. A boy on a pedestal. Policemen lined up during the rally. A number of people on a platform as they take pictures. A girl sits on the pedestal. People outside an official building. People with banners bearing names around their neck. A banner reads 'Free all political prisoners'. People walk towards the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1966. F-4B on catapult. F-4B launched. Steam rolls down catapult track. Blast fence lowered. Another F-4B taxis onto catapult. Personnel in background. F-4B being launched with after burners. Signal man in dungarees sending message on signal light. F-4B making recovery. F-4B on deck after recovery. Signal man sending message on signal light from rim of signal bridge. Red shirts wheeling bombs under aircraft. Activity on flight deck. Group of red shirted men. Island seen in far background. A-4C aircraft of Heavy Attack Squadron Four (VAH-4), Carrier Wing Five (CVW-5), taxiing over deck. Tow bars stacked. A-4C on deck. Tractor moves by. Aircraft being launched. Men leaving deck. Switch to the personnel on catapult. Steam rolling down the track. Green shirted men and red shirted men watch aircraft recover. Aircraft zips into the scene. F-4B's being lowered on deck edge elevator. Personnel and aircraft on flight deck.
The December 1, 1969 Draft Lottery for the year 1970 is held at the United States Selective Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. The draft lottery is led by General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. The ceremony begins with a benediction, and then an official pours slips of paper containing birth dates into a glass bowl. Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York draws the first birth date. He declares the date, September 14, and another man pastes the birth date next to a number on a board. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee draw additional birth dates and the board is filled out with the draft sequence.
United States President Richard Nixon departs from West Berlin, Germany, during his official visit to Europe. People wave at President Nixon from apartment windows. President Nixon's motorcade drives on crowded roads in West Berlin and reaches the Charlottenburg Palace (Spandauer Damm 10-22, 14059 Berlin, Germany). Gate of the Charlottenburg palace. Equestrian statue of Frederick Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, on the grounds of the Charlottenburg Palace. Civilians gathered greet him and raise banner to welcome President Nixon. Sign read as “Richard Nixon Ein wirklich Berliner” (“Richard Nixon a real Berliner” in English). View of the Siemens factory in West Berlin.
The Indo China War in Indochina. Army trucks move in rebel held towns. French soldiers carry wounded men on litters. Troops fire artillery. Dead people on the ground. Natives sitting. Huts and houses of a town on fire. French soldiers move in the streets. The troops are in action for mopping up entrenched Vietnamese. Vietnamese are being transferred onto a truck.
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