Anti-war protestors in moratorium march in Washington D.C., United States. A large number of peace activists and pacifist demonstrators walk past Department of Justice building as they carry North Vietnamese flags of National Front for the Liberation of the South, to protest against American involvement in the Vietnam War. People gather at the entrance of the building. People protest outside the building as they carry flags and banners. Crowd is becoming unruly. One man seizes large ring on door of building and slams it as a knocker against door. Others beat on steel door with american flags. Smoke rises from area in background. Cameramen record the event.
News special report about U.S. President Richard Nixon's 'Silent Majority' speech from the White House about Vietnam War. President Nixon addresses the nation from an office in the White House. He points about the fault of North Vietnamese government to negotiate about a just peace. He talks about the U.S. foreign policy regarding assuring peace in other countries against communist or any other sort of aggression. He talks about the training given to South Vietnamese to defend their freedom.
U.S. Air Force C-130 airdrop operations in 1968, during Vietnam War. C-130 aircraft in flight. View of supplies being airdropped. View from inside cabin of a C-130, as South Vietnamese paratroopers jump from the aircraft. A heavy pallet of supplies being pulled onto a runway by parachutes, from the rear of a low-flying C-130. Scene shifts to October 14, 1973,at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, where a U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-5 aircraft is unloading 186,200 pounds of military assistance cargo, at the start of the U.S. "Nickel Grass" airlift operation during the Yom Kippur war or Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Pallets of ammunition are seen being offloaded, followed by a 175mm self-propelled gun, covered with wooden cargo boxes. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and other observers watch stand on the airport ramp. Golda Meir meets and greets members of the U.S. Air Force crew.
Anti-war demonstrators gather during the 1971 May Day protests in Washington D.C.. Aerial view of Hains Point and protesters camping out in West Potomac Park in April, 1971. A man nails a May Day Protest poster on a tree, probably along Constitution Avenue. The May Day poster reads, "If our people fight one tribe at a time, all will be killed...Come to Washington, D.C. May 1-7." “The country should respond from coast-to-coast, with demonstrations and universities and communities across this country!” says Rennie Davis, an anti-war activist and one of the “Chicago Seven” defendants charged for anti-Vietnam War protests. Still image views of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the Milwaukee River and the domes of the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, and streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cars driving on roads near Washington D.C. Women walking across lawn near federal building in Washington, D.C. A tactical manual for “May Day”, with an image of Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader who resisted against United States government policies, on its cover. A page title of the “May Day Tactical Manual” is written “The Mayday Scenario Saturday, April 24: Algonquin Peace City Opens”. Map of Washington DC showing the main targets of the May Day protests- the Selective Service System agency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice Department and the Health, Education & Welfare Department. Sign reading, “National Headquarters Selective Service System”. Demonstrators from the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference attempt to break into the Selective Service System headquarters (1724 F Street NW in Washington, DC). Guards prevent protesters from entering the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters hold burning money and burn draft cards in protest outside the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters chant "no more war" and raise their hands with clenched fists and peace signs, toss the American flag around, and sing a parody version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” A security guard snatches the American flag and brings it into the building. Burned draft cards posted on the main entrance of the Selective Service System headquarters. Again the next morning, demonstrators block doors to the Selective Service system headquarters, causing policemen to drag them out of the way by force. Trash from protestors on street. African American civil rights activist Hosea Williams yelling at police, saying, you are "locking up people without telling them anything, and that is wrong! It is wrong!” Protesters outside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A May Day collective protester surrounded by policemen. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare sign. Protesters rip down a wall inside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policeman leads away an arrested man from the protest at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policemen escort an arrested African American protester Hosea Williams, raising a clenched fist (black power), as he yells to onlookers, "I got it done, I got it done!". Protestors at the Department of Justice yell "free all political prisoners" and hold various signs saying “1984”, “We are all P.O.W” and chanting outside the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation building in Washington DC. Protestors clap and sing "Amen, amen, amen."
Washington DC Metropolitan Police arrest Vietnam War protestors during the May Day Protests in 1971. Sit-in protesters at The Department of Justice with sign reading, “FREE AMERICA’S POLITICAL PRISONERS”. Police officer with a megaphone speaks to anti-war protesters. Sign above protesters reads, “TRY WAR CRIMINALS NOT WAR RESISTERS”. Policeman arrests a woman raising her fist. Policemen escort and drag protesters to buses. A female protester, holding a child, sits alone in front of the doors of the Department of Justice. Hippie protesters cheer as one of them gets arrested by the police. A hippie man is arrested by the police. Police in front of the United States Department of Justice building (950 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20530) watching protestors. Hippies hold fists in the air while singing during sit-in protest in front of the Department of Justice. Policemen arrest protesters one by one, utilizing field arrest reports on the scene. An African American in dispute with a group of policemen arresting him. Young man with fist raised sitting on top of column during Department of Justice protest while TV cameraman films him. Southern Christian leaders are filmed by TV crews as they join in the protest. Protesters singing and sitting, some wearing symbolic blindfolds. African American policemen observe protestors. Hippies sing, "we shall not be moved." Metropolitan Police Department police arrest protestors. An African American policeman writes a field arrest report. A man with hands on his head during his arrest while photo journalist takes pictures Map of the Washington DC area, with the West Potomac Park labeled. Aerial view of the West Potomac Park near the Potomac River. Map of the North Washington DC area, with Rock Creek Park labeled. 1971 May Day hippie protesters camping in West Potomac Park. Close up of May Day protest manual with words in bold, "Every participant should bring a transistor radio."
Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.