An anti-war march event in New York City, organized by the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (later became the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam). Large crowd of anti-war demonstrators begin in Central Park and march on the streets holding banners. Students, housewives, doctors, businessmen, teachers, Beatniks, Hippies, and other demonstrators attend the protest. Group of demonstrators burns draft cards. Pro war and anti-war demonstrators argue. Right wing demonstrators protest the anti-war march. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and officials walk towards the United Nations headquarters building (46th St & 1st Ave, New York, NY 10017) during the peace demonstration. Military policemen arrest demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
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,
United States Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade during Vietnam War. Soldiers patrol through an area of damaged trees. Two soldiers examine an entrance hold at a tunnel. A soldier hands another soldier a white canister that the latter puts down into the hole. A soldier smokes a cigarette and looks at the leaves. U.S. Army Soldiers disassemble partially standing huts (which had been used by North Vietnamese Army NVA 2nd Regiment), pile up wood and straw of huts that they tore down, and set it on fire. A soldier operates a 16mm movie camera and films the event. Smoke rises from the pile of huts and materials set on fire.
United States Army soldiers of 196th Light Infantry Brigade, B Company, burn huts in a village vacated by NVA 2nd Regiment soldiers. U.S. Army soldiers set fire to huts and smoke and flames consume the huts. Soldiers stand inside a building heavily damaged by shell fire, and they knock down a concrete wall of the building to expose the inside. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. Army soldiers in Vietnam War from 2nd Platoon, C Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 196th Light Infantry Brigade. General activity as they get ready to bivouac. Soldiers sit and rest. Some smoke cigarettes. A soldier holds a 16mm movie camera. Soldiers build a fire and eat chow from C-ration cans. A newly dug foxhole is shown. Two soldiers seen cleaning M-16 rifles and talking to fellow soldiers.
C-123K aircraft fly for Operation Ranch Hand in Vietnam. C-123Ks in flight. They emit Agent Orange spray defoliant over the mountain area of southwest. C-123Ks fly over sea and mountains. Pilot's hand on C-123K controls. C-123Ks in flight and emit defoliant over dense vegetation area.