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.
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.
Reconstruction of activities that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 2-5, 1964. Captain of the USS Turner Joy (DD-951), Commander Robert C. BARNHART, Jr., USN, speaks to crew over the ship's public address system. He wears helmet with "CO" painted on it, and a life vest. Crew members, including two officers, lean over a plotting board depicting relative positions of vessels in the vicinity. They discuss the matter while one, wearing a headset, annotates the plot with information.
Re-enactment, some time after the actual event, of actions taken in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 2nd through 5th, 1964, aboard the USS Turner Joy (DD-951). Two crew members, wearing headsets,monitor radar screen and report their obervations on intercom. At another location, two officers and a sailor monitor another radar screen and converse on the interphone.
Bodies of persons killed in Congo, when some 200 foreigners and thousands of Congolese were executed by rebel "Simbas" in Stanleyville and environs, in 1964. Evidence being gathered to facilitate prosecution of perpetrators. Major-general Joseph Mobutu (Mobutu Sese Seko), Congo Army chief of Staff, is seen confering with other Congo officials. Two possible perpetrators are seen. Rescued persons receiving food at a temporary camp. Persons accused of inhumane treatment of others on trial. Soldiers using force to capture troublemakers. Delegates seen at the Third Geneva Convention at the Palace of Nations in in 1949. Viet Cong prisoners being treated humanely, in accordance with the provisions of the 3rd Geneva Convention, during Vietnam war. Some seen switching allegiance to Republic of Vietnam.
Newsreel clip highlighting game 7 of baseball's 1964 World Series. Shot of small Cardinals flags. Stands of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis filled to capacity. Cardinals score when in fourth inning when wild throw to first base allows Ken Boyer to score. Mel Stottlemyre pitches to Dal Maxvill but Cardinals pull a double steal, allowing Tim McCarver to score. Maxvill singles to right, scoring another run. Later in the game, Ken Boyer hits home run to left field, putting Cardinals on top 7-3. Final score would be 7-5, giving the Cardinals their first world championship since 1946.
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