In a political advertisement narrated by Richard Nixon, the presidential candidate assures viewers of the right of every American citizen to dissent and to be free from domestic violence. Still images showing violent confrontations between police and antiwar protesters. Various views of burning buildings, aftermath of racial rioting and antiwar demonstrations. Antiwar protesters bleeding on streets. Nixon closes saying"I pledge to you we shall have order in the United States."
Policemen hurl smoke grenades at student protesters at the Sorbonne Campus of the University of Paris during “May 68” riots. Smoke bombs exploding on the street. A protester hurls a smoke bomb in the Latin Quarter. Students running away from smoke bombs and police. Some students are hit by smoke grenades. French policemen brutally hit demonstrators with batons. Police beat and manhandle student protesters. Policeman punching a student. Hard helmets, garbage lids, and other protest supplies are found inside a makeshift armory in the Sorbonne Campus.
Division of Vietnam into North and South Vietnam as Indochina war ends up in Vietnam. Aerial view of cratered battle ground, with smoke rising, at Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, in March, 1954. A French A-26 Invader aircraft flying above some clouds and pilot in cockpit using radio. French paratroops, dropping from C-47 aircraft, and landing, to reinforce troops dug in at Dien Bien Phu. French artillery firing and rounds exploding in the distance. French troops moving through brush, and carrying wounded back out. Citizens on streets of Hanoi, North Vietnam, scrounging for scraps to eat. An old woman hunkered down in a doorway. A mother with a young boy. French troops crossing a bridge as they surrender following the siege at Dien Bien Phu. North Vietnamese troops entering Hanoi. Delegates at the Geneva conference of 1954, in the Palais des Nations, including representatives of the Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China, among others. Closeup of Soviet delegation, with Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, second from left. View of the North Vietnamese delegation, and delegate Ta Quang Buu, Vice Minister of Defense of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), and Head of their Military Delegation, signing the accords. Closeup of one treaty page, with his signature, as Minister of Defense, and that of Henri, Deltiel, Brigadier General, who signed for the Commander in Chief of all French Forces in Indochina. OUtdoors. After the conference, Soviet Foreign Minister, Molotov shakes hands with Chou En-lai, Chinese Foreign Minister. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister,Andrei Gromyko, wearing a hat, is standing behind Molotov. A long line of refugees fleeing to the South, from North Vietnam. A 1954 map showing the division of North and South Vietnam at the 19th parallel. Mist settled among mountain tops. South Vietnamese people engaged in agricultural pursuits and building new dwellings. South Vietnamese placing ballots in boxes during elections. Brief glimpse of the glamorous Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, defacto First Lady of South Vietnam, dressed in ao dai and wearing dark glasses, as she leaves a polling place. Farmers dressed in traditional conical hats (non la) working in grain fields, and reaping and carrying cut grain on poles in the South. Beautiful view of fishermen and boats silhouetted against sky, with tall limestone islands in background, at Ha Long Bay, North Vietnam (incorrectly implying it shows South Vietnamese in peaceful pursuits). South Vietnamese at work building structures with concrete blocks. A car with bullet holes in the windshield, draws attention on busy street in South Vietnam. Closeup of murdered man inside on floor of car. Scenes of vandalism at a house. Viet Minh guerillas moving through jungles and setting fires to straw roofed houses. Remains of a destroyed dwelling. Bodies of South Vietnamese killed, according to the narrator, by "Viet Cong pursuasion squads." A framed picture of Ho Chi Minh, over a North Vietnamese star flag.
United States Air Force ( USAF) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia to Pleiku Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In Boung Long, Cambodia: A C-7A aircraft lands and taxis. Cambodian refugees board the C-7A. It takes off. Another C-7A lands and taxis. Refugees in the background. A man directs a USAF C-47 Skytrain . The C-47 taxis. Refugees board the C-47 with their belongings. At Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam: Refugees leave the air base. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops load belongings into trucks and the trucks leave the area.
Board shows 'Long Range Patrol CO E 50th Infantry' Airborne and insignia of 50th Infantry of United States. Sign above huts door reads 'Long Range Patrol CO E 50th Infantry'. Insignia of 50th Infantry with Air Borne and Long Range Patrol written on the sleeve. Logo with LRRP on soldier's cap. (Vietnam War period).
Activities aboard PBRs (Patrol Boat River) during Operation Giant Sling Shot in Vietnam. A PBR stops long enough to blow up bunkers along a riverbank. A crewman aboard the PBR. The boat in the Vam Co Long river. Trees alongside the riverbank. A sampan along the port side for inspection. A stern view of the PBR and the sampan. The PBR heads up the river. Several of the Ssmpans secured to the PBR for search. Vietnamese aboard the sampans. The sampans around the starboard quarter. Vietnamese policeman searches one of the sampans.
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