Burning Aircraft Carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) off South Vietnam. Fire resulted from accidental ignition of flares. Three officers in the cabin, one of them sitting on the table top, while other two are on chairs and are engaged in an informal conversation (on same reel of footage, taken before the fire). View as sailors rip material from ship's side to gain access to fire. Smoke billows from side of ship. Several sailors run from area of heavy smoke, to get breath of fresher air. Injured sailor carried on stretcher.
Aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany, conducting flight operations from Yankee Station, in South China Sea off Vietnam. Several A4-E aircraft return and land on the carrier deck, engaging the restraining cable, without incident. (A fire broke out on the ship from accidental igniting of flares, in a locker below the flight deck, on this day. It is not clear whether these aircraft landed before, during, or after that event.)
U.S. Navy RA-5C Vigilante and F-4B Phantom II aircraft parked on port side of flight deck on an aircraft carrier underway in the South China Sea, during the Vietnam War. Crewmen stand near the aircraft on the flight deck. RA-5C Vigilante taxis out from parking area.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. President Nixon, the First Lady Patricia, President Thieu and his wife sit for a luncheon at a poolside. Flowers and plants in the garden. Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Thieu take their lunch at a poolside table. U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Kissinger talks to a South Vietnamese official at another table. Other dignitaries on dining tables. President Thieu stands and speaks at the dinner followed by President Nixon. Other people at the luncheon watch President Nixon as he speaks.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. After a garden luncheon President Nixon, the First Lady Patricia, President Thieu and Mrs. Thieu walk towards the speech site for the final communique. U.S. and Vietnamese dignitaries talk to each other after the dinner. The dignitaries walk out of the residence. President Nixon and other American officers bid goodbye to President Thieu. Thieu sits in his limousine and the President turns and walks inside the residence.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. Mrs. Thieu talks with American and Vietnamese dignitaries standing on a poolside before a garden luncheon. President Nixon, the First Lady Patricia, President Thieu and Mrs. Thieu walk towards the lunch table at the poolside.
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