Incumbent President Eisenhower with wife Mamie Eisenhower, Ohio Senator George H. Bender, and Bender's wife Edna Eckhardt in Cleveland, Ohio soon after President Eisenhower’s 1956 Republican nomination as president. “Special B&O” sign in front of President Eisenhower and others. Crowds of Republican supporters hold United States flags and signs “Re-elect President Eisenhower” and “Re-elect Senator Bender” in Cleveland, Ohio. Senator Bender delivers a speech in front of the crowds at at Cleveland Public Square (50 Public Square Suite 1700, Cleveland, OH 44113). News van from media such as WSRS radio are seen.
An air stair moves toward Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) at Andrews Air Force Base near Morningside, Maryland. The casket bearing the body of President John F. Kennedy is taken out of Air Force One. President Kennedy’s casket is loaded into the hearse. The hearse is followed by a group of staff cars. President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson stand at microphones to make comments to the press following the assassination of President Kennedy in Texas.
United States Marine Corps (USMC) Marines disembark from the back of helicopter beside a river. The Marines move into a jungle. Marines walk over rocks to cross a stream. Sergeant Jimmy Little narrates Marines’ patrol mission in Vietnam, a mission near route 9 and then back to base camp. Marines wearing foliage on their helmets carefully move on jungle trail. Marines wading in knee-deep river. Some Marines are seen smoking or carrying M40 recoilless rifles as they search the river for bodies and weapons. Marines hiding behind grass and trees and a small cliff. A soldier points and shouts orders while wading in river. A pair of Marines pull a gravely wounded comrade from the top of a cliff. A Marine loads an M79 grenade launcher and shoots at Vietcong forces. A rifle is fired. ‘Combat Art’ depicting a Marine looking at dead bodies. United States Marine Corps officers inspect captured weapons from Vietcong forces. A hand holds a hand drawn map. Debris and abandoned weapons and dead bodies are seen in the field. USMC Major General Wood B. Kyle summarizes the Marines’ experience in Operation Hastings and Operation Prairie, saying that the battles "stand as notable achievements in our battle against communist aggression...."
President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the United States public at a White House news conference about the Vietnam War on July 28, 1965. “We do not seek the destruction of any government, nor do we covet a foot of any territory. But we insist and we will always insist that the people of South Vietnam shall have the right of choice, the right to shape their own destiny in free elections in the South or throughout all Viet-Nam under international supervision, and they shall not have any government imposed upon them by force and terror so long as we can prevent it… We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat,” says President Johnson,
Rear view of United States Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopters during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army helicopter pilot and soldier crew member in cockpit. South Vietnamese soldiers using a field phone. Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers in flight. Aerial bombing of Vietcong positions. An officer points to a map. Hand traces marked positions on the map. Vietnamese civilians evacuate from their homes. An injured civilian is taken on a helicopter. A Vietnamese child cries. Vietnamese children wash their hands and dries them with washcloths. A girl combs her hair. A boy lays a tablecloth and glass on the table. A girl holding a bowl of biscuits. A boy is given a biscuit and eats it. “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle,” says United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during a news conference at the White House on July 28, 1965. Photographs of various young American men of different backgrounds, some with their girlfriends or working. A photograph of American teenagers or young adults. Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong smiling. A portrait of North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh over a flag of North Vietnam. View of a ship’s bow. The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-18) or USS Lexington (CV-16). A Douglas A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier. A pair of bombers dropping bombs over Vietnam. Bombs falling from bomber. Aerial view of bombs exploding in North Vietnam. A USMC LVTP-5 amphibious armored personnel carrier. United States Marines land on beach head and moving in jungle. “This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Vietnam.” President Johnson ends his speech.
United States Army 8th Air Force bombers lined at an airstrip in England the night before D-Day in World War II. U.S. General Brereton gives a signal for take-off. The bombers take off one by one in the night. Soldiers wave to bid them good luck. 8th Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder bombers in flight. A formation of bombers flying towards France. Gun turret inside a bomber. Allied invasion fleet sails closer to the coast of France at dawn. 8th Air Force fighters fly over the Channel Islands and the French shoreline. Allied bombers bombing the coast of Normandy prior to the ground forces landing there. Bombers release bombs over enemy shore batteries. Bombs hitting German controlled targets and smoke rising from bomb sites.
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