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Aircraft take off from the flight deck of USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Re-enactment of events that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A catapult officer gives an aircraft take off signal aboard the ship. U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk and F-8E Crusader aircraft taxi up to a catapult. The RF-8A aircraft takes off from the port catapult. The A-4E aircraft takes off. A U.S. Navy A-3B Skywarrior aircraft on the catapult. An A-1H Skyraider taxis on the flight deck. USS Maddox underway. Number '731' written on the port bow of the ship. USS Maddox makes a sharp starboard turn.

Date: 1964, August 19
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065150
U.S. Navy aircraft land on the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier underway in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Events of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964, re-enacted at later date. A U.S. aircraft carrier underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk being recovered aboard the ship. The aircraft makes an arrested landing and is being recovered. A U.S. Navy F-8E Crusader aircraft being recovered. A U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusader aircraft touches down for a landing. The F-8E aircraft touches down for an arrested landing.

Date: 1964, August
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065151
A sailor loads shells and a gun being fired from a ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Re-enactment of events that took place during 2-5 August, 1964, in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. A U.S. ship underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A sailor loads shells into a 3 inch gun. The gun commences rapid fire, stops and commences firing again. A pointer raises and lowers the twin three inch guns. Two crew members at a gun mount as the gun points. The gun mount rotates and stops. The gun mount manned by the gun crew.

Date: 1964, August
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065143
President Johnson addresses the public on United States actions against North Vietnam

During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the United States public during the “Radio and Television Report to the American People Following Renewed Aggression in the Gulf of Tonkin” from the Fish Room at the White House in August 4, 1964. "Renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action in reply,” says President Johnson. The USS Constellation (CV-64) aircraft carrier sailing. Pilots walk away from Douglas EKA-3B Skywarrior fighter jets in the USS Constellation. Aircrafts fire missiles, destroying facilities in North Vietnam. United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addresses the public to explain the direct attack against North Vietnam. “We wish to emphasize we seek no wider war. Our response will depend upon the action of the aggressors, in this case the North Vietnamese. The key to the situation remains the cessation of infiltration from the North into the South,” says Secretary McNamara.

Date: 1964, August
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080609
Crew of USS Turner Joy simulate actions that were taken during Gulf of Tonkin incident in August, 1964.

Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 2-5. 1964. USS Turner Joy underway at sea. Lookout scanning the horizon, with his binoculars, sending a report over phone, as he points with his right hand, after putting down the binoculars; he again raises the binoculars, scans the horizon. He sends a report over a phone. Interior of the destroyer, with crew members monitoring tracking equipment.One stands near them speaking into a phone. Flashes from guns firing from the fantail of the ship at night.

Date: 1964, August 14
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065135
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964.

Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Turner Joy (DD- 951) at sea. A signalman sends a message through a signal light aboard the destroyer.. He sends up a hoist of signal flags from a flag bag.

Date: 1964, August 14
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065134