1st Air Cavalry Dv. of Operation Delaware. General Willaim C. Westmorland discussing closely with some men. Gen. Westmoreland boarding the helicopter and leaving. 26 April 1968.
Long line of Vietnamese on way to newly discovered mass grave. People dig and uncover bodies which show signs of torture. Locals try to identify bodies of dead. Second mass grave uncovered. People dig out body parts of dead. Body parts stored in bags. Third mass burial uncovered. Local authorities meeting. Assembly point for hundreds of coffins. Incense burning. Mourners at coffins. Coffin is opened and woman looks at the remains. Flowers and incense burns on coffins. Buddhist ceremonies at shrine hall. Coffins prepared for procession. Women grieve. Funeral procession moves which extends for miles. White coolie hats worn by mourners. Mourning and shrine at cemetery. Civilians and military mourners at cemetery. Reburial of bodies (Vietnam War period).
Communists, U.S. soldiers and French officers in Haiphong, Vietnam. Civilian pointing to a sign on post. Communists putting up a sign on a building. Children in street and a shop selling communist flags in the background. Across large a field toward Red troops marching in distance in front of a building. Communist flags on a building. Two men and a child read signs on a building. People and vehicles on a street. French officers talk on a street. Truck in motion. MPs (Military Police) cross a street and vehicles in the background. Miniature American, French and Chinese flags on a jeep. MP barricade across a road. Civilian sitting on curb. Long line of cars. MPs standing on a street.
A U.S. Marine Corps RF-4B Phantom on ground roll, towing its open drag chute after landing. Another RF-4B Phantom takes off. An F-8E Crusader lands. Another F-8E lands and rolls out to end of runway. An A-6A Intruder on long ground roll after landing. Two F-8E Crusaders take off in succession. (Vietnam War period).
Construction of a runway at theNha Trang Airfield in Vietnam. A crane high up on hillside with scoop, loading a dump truck with rocks at a quarry. The load of rock is dumped into dump truck, crane swings around. A truck dumps asphalt into a spreader at the runway site. The spreader spreads the asphalt. A Vietnamese worker moves along with the truck. The spreader spreads a layer of asphalt. A compactor and steam roller compact the freshly laid asphalt. Vietnamese workers use long rake-like tools to smooth out rough areas on the leveled asphalt. A spreader spreading asphalt. The dump truck pulls away to pick up another load of asphalt, spreader comes to a stop. Asphalt runway being compacted by compactors. Other equipment on the right. A mountain range in the background.
Dwight D. Eisenhower during presidency of the Columbia University in 1948. Eisenhower walking at a Columbia University graduation ceremony in New York City and speaking to the group assembled. Two years later, views of Eisenhower as NATO supreme commander in Europe. Eisenhower seated in NATO Conference. Citizens in United States prepare signs and urge Eisenhower to run for President. He salutes a parade in 1952 as he begins a run for the Presidency. Pamphlets and posters read 'we need Eisenhower'. An animated cartoon shows a smiling and marching Uncle Sam with an "Ike for President" jingle song playing. Cartoon shows animated citizens and an elephant supporting Eisenhower. Scenes from Republican National Convention, and Nixon and Eisenhower holding their arms up together. Citizens voting, using ballot boxes, and voting machines. A nun votes. Eisenhower casts his vote. People hold U.S. flags and cheer. Signboards and neon lighting on a building track vote tally and proclaim Eisenhower victory in 1952 presidential election. Eisenhower in Korea after the election. He meets and eats with American troops in the field and studies the war effort. South Koreans wave flags on announcement of truce (cease-fire armistice) in Korean War Eisenhower takes presidential oath of office in Washington DC. He signs document for Civil Rights Act of 1957 (voting right act). View of African American students of the "Little Rock Nine" entering a military station wagon under armed troop escort during integration of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. U.S. Army troops escort the African American students into school. Exterior view of United Nations building in New York. Eisenhower delivers speech on Atoms For Peace. Winston Churchill of Britain and Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union visit Eisenhower in America. Scenes of John F Kennedy inauguration in 1961. Eisenhower with Kennedy and later with President Johnson. In 1968 address to Republican Convention Eisenhower notes risk of growth of Communism.
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