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Anti-war protestors rally at U.S. Capitol against the war in Vietnam.
April 24, 1971 rally organized by the National Peace Action Coalition against the Vietnam War, held in Washington DC. Feet with shoes and 1970s fashion pants legs of peace marchers on streets of Washington DC. Hippie protestors holding the North Vietnamese flag and the flag of the Vietcong National Liberation Front and yelling chants against the war. Reporter sitting atop a truck photographs the marching crowd of anti-war citizens. A sign reads "Veterans". Protestors seen marching from the White House to the U.S. Capitol. Narrator indicates that protestors are also highlighting civil rights issues. Aerial view of U.S. Capitol building. Protestors crossing mall lawn areas. Elevated view of densely packed crowd on Mall grounds. Demonstrators cheering and yelling and shaking their fists. Police and officials lean against U.S. Capitol walkway railings and observe the crowd. Some protestors are seen perched on limbs of a tree, and the tree is moving as the crowd swings the tree back and forth. Crowd seated around a flag made of red flowers. Crowd waving Vietcong flag. Some protestors seen scaling a wooden fence barrier on the Capitol grounds.
The Selective Service System (SSS) holds a draft lottery to induct men into the Vietnam War.
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.
Aerial views of various landmarks and monuments in Washington DC.
Landmarks and monuments in Washington D.C. Aerial views of War College, the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Marine Corps (USMC) War Memorial depicting the Iwo Jima flag raising. The Lincoln Memorial with the Washington Monument in the background. The Capitol building in the far background, and the Main Navy Building and Munitions Buildings west of the National Mall (eight years before they were demolished in 1970....that area is now the site of Constitution Gardens and the Vietnam War Memorial.)
Medical technicians attend wounded in a MAC C-9 plane and Aero-medical evacuation during the war in South East Asia.
Responsibility of United States Air Force MAC during war time. People carry a wounded on stretcher into a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-9 aircraft. Trained flight nurses and medical technicians board the plane. Men arrange stretchers inside the plane. MAC planes land and take off. View of Aero-medical evacuation during the Vietnam War in South East Asia. Soldiers carry injured United States Army soldier into a helicopter ambulance in the late 1960s or early 1970s.Medical personnel attend to the wounded on stretchers in a C-9 plane.
U.S. Marine Corps performing a drill and a USMC band playing on grounds of Iwo Jima Memorial
U.S. Marine Corps in the United States, performing drill maneuvers on the grounds of the US Marine Corps War Memorial (also called the Iwo Jima Memorial), in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC. The United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon performing complex drills. Spokesperson indicates that all members of the Platoon are veterans of the Vietnam War. The Marines standing in formation and performing soloists routine. People seated on the grassy ground in a roped off area. A man recording the event with a movie camera. The Marines standing at attention. An officer standing in front of the Marines performs drill movements with several spins of rifles. The crowd watching offers applause. Audience includes men, women, and children in 1970s clothing fashions. Senior navy officers watch the drill. The officer standing in front of the Marines gives a command and the U.S. Marine Corps band starts playing and marching. A large crowd watching the Marines' performance. The USMC band marching and the Marines holding rifles marching in formation. The Marine Corps War Memorial in view at dawn or dusk.
Dramatization: Abraham Lincoln intercedes to prevent Colonel Cameron's hanging in the United States.
Excerpt from fictional silent film "The Birth of a Nation" shows Colonel Ben Cameron's mother appealing for mercy. Cameron's mother in a hospital. A guard in the hospital stops her. Wounded Colonel Ben lying on a bed. Northern nurse Elise stands near his bed. Other patients in the background. Ben's mother takes permission from the guard to meet her son. Elise holds hands of the Colonel and he tries to say something. The Colonel's mother walks in and looks at her son. She speaks to her. Elise stands near his bed. An army surgeon says that the Colonel will be hanged as a guerrilla. Elise and Colonel's mother are shocked to hear this. The surgeon walks away. The mother cries putting her head on the chest of the Colonel and holding hands of Elise. She says that they will ask for mercy. Elise leaves. The mother is tensed. She cries holding hands of another nurse. Officials and dignitaries in a hall. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln seated in a chair. Ben's mother and Elise in the hall. They both approach Abraham Lincoln and he shakes hands. They appeal to Lincoln regarding the hanging of Colonel Ben. A close up of Elise. The mother speaks to Lincoln. Ben on his bed in the hospital. Ben's mother begs for mercy and cries. Lincoln consoles her. Elise stands and prays. Lincoln looks at some documents on a table. He wears spectacles and writes on a paper. Elise becomes happy. The President gives the paper to Ben's mother. Elise and the mother hug each other. An officer seated in a chair. They both leave the hall. A man comes to Lincoln. Ben in the hospital. Elise and the mother come and tell the Colonel that he will not be hanged. The mother holds the paper of mercy in her hand and shows it to Ben. Ben recovers at the hospital. The mother hugs Elise. Elise speaks to the guard and leaves. Ben talks to Elise and feels shy. She tries to go away and the Colonel pulls her back. The mother is back in her home and meets her husband and daughter
