Unites States forces in Lebanon during the Lebanese crisis. U.S. Army soldiers lined up. Chief of Staff of Lebanese Army, General Fouad Chehab, and U.S. Army General Paul D. Adams walk towards Robert McClintock, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon. General Chehab shakes hands with Robert McClintock as General Adams looks on. U.S. State Department representative Robert Murphy, personal representative of President Eisenhower, stands in the background. General Chehab gets in a waiting Cadillac limousine. Another Lebanese official wearing a fez gets in the front passenger seat and the car drives away. Journalists take pictures.
Vice President Johnson visits Lebanon and Iran. Vice President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Lebanon on his foreign aid fact finding trip. He moves through the streets in a motorcade. A large crowd of civilians gathered on either side of the street to greet him. He then visits Iran and exits his motorcade car to greet Iranian citizens in the streets. A crowd of people in Iran surround him and cheer him.
United States intervention in the Lebanon Crisis. U.S. Marines reaching the coastline of Lebanon. The Marines climb out of rafts. People watching the Marines. U.S. bomber aircraft in flight. Lebanese people on a beach. U.S. Marines unloading ammunition from the rafts. The Marines holding guns moving into the city of Beirut. The Marines guarding Beirut International Airport. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a speech says that U.S. intervention could have serious effects. He says that the United States is neither looking for any material gain nor has it any emotional hostility against any government. The sole aim is the preservation of independence of every state. Several aircraft on an airfield. U.S. 2nd Marine Division enplaning at Cherry Point in North Carolina, U.S. Soldiers holding equipment beside the aircraft. The soldiers walking in columns. Several aircraft on the airfield. U.S. Army airborne troops beside the aircraft. The troops getting into the aircraft. Airborne troops from Germany at Adena air base in Turkey. British paratroops from Cyprus boarding aircraft bound for Jordan. A Royal Air Force aircraft takes off. U.S. aircraft carrier USS Leyte in a harbor. Supplies carried on cranes. U.S. sailors speaking over telephones in phone boxes. Sailors holding cartons moving on a ramp to a vessel. Officials at the United Nations building during a meeting. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Henry Cabot Lodge speaking into a microphone. Officials beside the Ambassador. The Ambassador calls for decisive action by the UN and says U.S. Marines will be withdrawn in accordance with the UN action.
This film is in two parts: The Cedars of Lebanon and The history of Israel. The first part of the film is Lebanon Mountains and buildings. Cedar trees in a gorge of Kadisha Valley. Stones kept in front of a 900 year old tree and is looked after by a Maronite priest. A Maronite chapel. People come out of the chapel. Trees inscribed with the names of famous men who visited them. Second Part of film is in Israel: The Onrus River. A water wheel which irrigates the fields. The stones in a temple. Men dig earth to take out stones. The comparison of an area with a model of the Solomon's Temple. The north east corner of the Solomon's model. The south east corner of the area. The model of the Solomon's Temple. A wall under the temple. An aerial view of the city. The back view of the Solomon's Temple. An animated map shows the division of the temple between Israel and Judea after the death of Solomon.
United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) shakes hands with people in the Middle East holding American flags. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson’s motorcade drives through highways in the Middle East. Steamroller flattens gravel to create a new road in rural Cyprus. POV through car windshield driving down a rural road in Cyprus. Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Lebanese locals. A construction project in Lebanon. Lyndon B. Johnson visits construction site in Lebanon. Construction workers carry blocks of stone. Lyndon B. Johnson meets and shakes hands with Lebanese construction workers holding bundles of reinforcing bar.
Lebanese Armed Forces armored cars and trucks are seen at a major intersection in Beirut, Lebanon, during 1952 (when president Beshara al-Khoury faced strong domestic opposition and sought the army’s support to quell dissent). Several civilian cars drive through the intersection, and a few pedestrians walk in the area. An armored car with large turret and gun is parked at another street in the intersection. (It looks like a tank but has wheels and tires and no tread.) A closeup of the armored car and some of its crew. Several soldiers stand on a sidewalk near a stack of sand bags. Above them is a sign advertising an airline's Super DC-6 aircraft. Next,several soldiers pose brandishing weapons, including a machine gun, in a sandbagged position. A truck carrying Lebanese soldiers passes the camera. A group of soldiers walk past Army vehicles in downtown, Beirut. Some others take a break near an armored car. They enjoy bottled drinks, and a few smoke cigarettes. Closeup of an armored car and its crew. A soldier accosts a man and questions him briefly before allowing him to proceed. Some civilians assembling near soldiers. Brief view of a building, in which a young reporter is interviewing Saeb Salam, Prime Minister of Lebanon. Both are smoking cigarettes.
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