Demonstrations in Washington DC, United States against United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. American military servicemen participating in the Moratorium March on Washington are seen demonstrating in front of the National Archives Building. The protesting soldiers hold banners. A banner reads 'Vote for Service Men'. Antiwar demonstrators including military veterans and citizens protest. They hold various anti war banners. Hippie fashions and hair styles on some of the demonstrators. A demonstrator moves with a banner on the steps of the building.
Reconnaissance photographs removed from an aircraft on board United States Navy carrier underway in the China Sea during World War II. Officers analyze the photographs. Ships in the rough sea as waves crash over the flight deck. Aircrafts take off from carrier in typhoons. Oil refineries bombed in Saigon, Vietnam as smoke rises from them. Japanese warships and ammunition ship burn after blow up. Plane makes a crash landing on board a carrier.
American servicemen are kept informed by American Forces Radio and Television Station facilities. A soldier listens to a radio and writes a letter. Another soldier in southeast Asia looks at a post with directional arrows showing distances thousands of miles away to cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Denver. He sits on a bench and listens to the radio. Aerial view of the broadcasting station part of the American Forces Radio and Television Station. Power is supplied by portable generators housed in wooden shacks. View of radio studios, control rooms and administrative blocks. A man serving as Disc Jockey or DJ operates a control panel and a phonograph turntable to play a record. He turns dials on the control panel and works on a program schedule. View of a reel to reel tape machine running. News report and informational programs are broadcast to a large majority of servicemen. Military cooks working in a kitchen to prepare food. Army soldier standing at washroom sink and shaving, while listening to a portable radio. Two Army soldiers, one white and one African American, playing pool or billiards while listening to a portable radio. Soldiers on a rest break during a patrol in the Vietnam War listen to a radio.
American servicemen are kept informed by newspapers and radio telecasts. In Guam, Mariana Islands : a serviceman seated at a table in a room listens to a radio and writes a letter to his wife. A radio disc jockey hosts a musical show and plays songs for listeners from a studio. In Korea : a soldier reads Stars and Stripes newspaper while getting a haircut. In South Vietnam: mechanics read a newspaper. Newspapermen work and write for the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes newspaper. In Thailand : American servicemen watch a sports program at USO Club. A video taping technician works with recording devices at a television station. American soldiers watch a television show. A television engineer controls a program on air at the American Forces Korea Network. A man works on a typewriter.
Self-portrait of Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon what did he think when he made a decision to run for the President of the United States in 1968. A picture showing Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon. The interviewer asks if he felt any strain on the family. Nixon says he thought of his family first. A picture showing his wife Pat Nixon and daughters Julie Nixon and Tricia Nixon. Nixon calls this presidency more of a challenge in terms of America being involved in the Vietnam War and in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. A photograph shows Richard Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon, daughters Julie and Tricia and Julie's husband David Eisenhower at a beach. He says that present time is different from World Wars I and II because now America is a great power and there should be a best possible leader to lead the nation. Nixon states that America needs a kind of leadership that would obtain peace and avoid war and surrender. A picture of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nixon.
United States KC-135 A aircraft at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in Thailand during the Vietnam War. A United States KC-135 A aircraft taxis along the runway at the air force base. United States airmen in the foreground as the plane taxis along. An airman with insignia on his uniform which reads ' POE U.S. Air Force '. The aircraft takes off followed by a RB-66 B aircraft. A United States F-105 D aircraft takes off. F-4C and KC-135 A aircraft take off. A sign on a building reads ' Crash Rescue Takhli Air Base Thailand '. Tankers in the foreground.
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