U.S. Defense Secretary McNamara addresses a news conference in the United States. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses a news conference and reports on Vietnam. He points at the bombed out supply routes from the North Vietnam. He shows the Chinese machine gun. He points at the charts showing the air raid damaged bridges. Reporters note down the points. The Defense Secretary states presence of the regular North Vietnamese troops in the South. (Vietnam War period).
President Johnson addresses the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in the United States. View of the White House. Members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists gather during the conference. President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson addresses gathering. Members note down the points. President reaffirms U.S. policy in South Vietnam. He visualizes the prosperous Vietnam once the war ends. street and field scenes. Monuments and buildings. President continues his speech and talks about the Red China and North Vietnam.
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 and one carries a sign, "Anarchy cannot be permitted in the USA. Fight Communism and Red Termites." 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.
European hostages, rescued from Stanleyville, arriving at Leopoldville airport in the Congo, during insurrection there in 1964. Rescued persons deplane from U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft by way of its rear cargo door and ramps. Sick and wounded are met by medical personnel who place them in ambulances. Next, text from 3rd Geneva Convention, of 1949, is displayed. Scene shifts to U.S. military advisers in Vietnam helping train Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in proper treatment of prisoners; methods of taking prisoners with minimum of force; interrogation methods; and medical treatment of wounded prisoners. (Vietnam War period).
South Vietnamese civilians escaping Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese, at the end of the Vietnam War. USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) maneuvering off shore of South Vietnam. Flotilla of small Vietnamese civilian boats carrying evacuees approach the USS Blue Ridge. U.S. Navy sailors take lines from the boats and help refugees to board the US Navy ship.
Evacuation of ethnic Vietnamese refugees from Cambodia during the Vietnam War (to escape massacres of ethnic Vietnamese by Cambodian forces). An American commercial aircraft taxis on a runway. A truck drives to the aircraft and backs up to the doorway of the airplane. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers help to load baggage from the truck on the aircraft, which will fly to South Vietnam. The refugees seated on the ground. The truck is driven away.