USS Coral Sea (CV-43) returns to San Francisco from the Vietnam War. Sailors aboard USS Coral Sea. A crowd cheers on a dock. Relatives and friends welcome the crew members of USS Coral Sea and greet them as they arrive. A sailor kisses a woman after disembarking.
Peace Demonstration at the Trafalgar square in London, England organized by the "Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament." Large crowd of anti-war demonstrators gather at Trafalgar Square (Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom). City of London Police in scuffle with protesters at Trafalgar Square. Demonstrators protest and show opposition to British support for the United States' actions in the Vietnam War. They hold banners. Military policemen control and stop the protesters from approaching Prime minister's home.
Anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Washington DC and Arlington Virginia. Large crowd of peace activists, pacifists and anti-war demonstrators gather at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) for a mass protest. The Washington Monument is seen from afar. A scuffle between anti-war demonstrators and hecklers. Demonstrators move in parade across the Key Bridge over the Potomac River, holding banners. Military policemen control the crowd as they protest at the Pentagon. They arrest several demonstrators. Tear gas is used. Campfires are lighted by the protesters on the grounds of the Pentagon to stay warm during the overnight cold as the demonstration carries into a second day as a sit-in. Military police monitor the demonstrators.
The official state visit of United States Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to the Vatican City. Hubert H. Humphrey and his wife arrive in the Vatican. A stone Vatican coat of arms carving. They meet Pope Paul VI to explore peace possibilities in the Vietnam War and to make a peace plan. The Vice President presents a papal gift to the Pope. Pope Paul VI inspects a book featured colored reproductions of Raphael’s frescoes in the Vatican.
A conference between American Naval advisors and Vietnamese Naval officers on the Junk building program in Saigon, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese officer putting pictures on a board inside a conference hall in a building. U.S. Navy Senior Shipyard Advisor Commander Anthony W. Dusesek with another American Naval advisor and three Vietnamese Naval officers seated around a table and looking at blueprints of junks. Various views of the men discussing seated at the table. Commander Anthony Dusesek places a model junk over a blueprint and talks to Vietnamese Naval officer sitting beside him.
President Lyndon B Johnson gives a speech at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218, United States) in Baltimore. He talks about U.S. relations with South Vietnam, peace talks and proposes an aid program. He offers to hold diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. He states the need for an independent South Vietnam. “Such peace demands an independent South Viet-Nam—securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others—free from outside interference—tied to no alliance—a military base for no other country.” President Johnson said. The President calls upon South East Asia nations for a co-operative economic drive, and asks the United Nations and nations like the Soviet Union to join in. “For our part I will ask the Congress to join in a billion-dollar American investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. And I would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the Soviet Union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress.” President Johnson said. Men working with heavy machinery in a South East Asian industrial plant. View of working men constructing a modern bridge in Vietnam. Vietnamese farmer threshing harvested rice. A doctor examines a Vietnamese man. The crowd applauds the President's speech. Views of Vietnamese people working on farms, in technical and scientific laboratories, and industrialization in Vietnam. A European or American professor teaches a Vietnamese student inside a laboratory. Vietnamese women working inside a textile factory. Vietnamese farmers carrying produce. President Johnson quotes from the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible. “We may well be living in the time foretold many years ago when it was said: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.” President Johnson concludes his speech.
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