Demonstrations at United States Embassy (24 Grosvenor Square, London W1A 1AE, United Kingdom) in Mayfair, London, England, protesting American involvement in the Vietnam War. The police are moving in on the crowd. Bare tree in the foreground, the crowd of anti-war and peace activist demonstrators in Grosvenor Square. Police carry off demonstrators to the buses to be taken away. Large banners are being carried by the demonstrators in Grosvenor Square. A bus pulling out with demonstrators to the Police Station. The police and photographers, police have the demonstrators in tow. The buses and police wagons. The police pushing in on the crowded demonstrators along with the Mounted Police. A large mob jammed in the square. Police are lining the sidewalk. A demonstrator being carried off by the police. Police along the sidewalk with officials. Street is littered with newspapers after the mob dispersed. Police are seen walking through the park. Police running with a stretcher. Police carry a man on the stretcher toward the ambulance at the curb. Man being carried around to the back of the ambulance, being put into ambulance and taken to the hospital.
Robert Sargent Shriver is interviewed by Frank Reynolds in Washington. Television journalist Frank Reynolds interviews Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. , Director of the Peace Corps. A world map on a wall in the background. Sargent Shriver talks about enthusiasm of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JK) and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for the Peace Corps. Frank Reynolds questions whether the people of Vietnam can serve in the Peace Corps.
African American Industrial and economic union in Cleveland,Ohio. World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) meets with top African American athletes during the African American Industrial and Economic Union, to discuss his draft stance during the Vietnam War. Athletes include Bill Russel, Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), and Jim Brown. Jim Brown, the founder of the union, speaks about Clay's behavior. Cleveland Mayor Carl Burton Stokes is also present.
Hippies and peace activists promoting peace in Detroit, Michigan. A large crowd of hippies and activists gather at the Belle Isle park for a love in. Man writes pacifist slogans on cars. Various peace slogans painted on cars, trucks and vans. People dance and promote peace and anti-war participants demonstrate against the war in Vietnam.
American servicemen are kept informed by American Forces Radio and Television Station facilities. A soldier listens to a radio and writes a letter. Another soldier in southeast Asia looks at a post with directional arrows showing distances thousands of miles away to cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Denver. He sits on a bench and listens to the radio. Aerial view of the broadcasting station part of the American Forces Radio and Television Station. Power is supplied by portable generators housed in wooden shacks. View of radio studios, control rooms and administrative blocks. A man serving as Disc Jockey or DJ operates a control panel and a phonograph turntable to play a record. He turns dials on the control panel and works on a program schedule. View of a reel to reel tape machine running. News report and informational programs are broadcast to a large majority of servicemen. Military cooks working in a kitchen to prepare food. Army soldier standing at washroom sink and shaving, while listening to a portable radio. Two Army soldiers, one white and one African American, playing pool or billiards while listening to a portable radio. Soldiers on a rest break during a patrol in the Vietnam War listen to a radio.
Self-portrait of Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon what did he think when he made a decision to run for the President of the United States in 1968. A picture showing Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon. The interviewer asks if he felt any strain on the family. Nixon says he thought of his family first. A picture showing his wife Pat Nixon and daughters Julie Nixon and Tricia Nixon. Nixon calls this presidency more of a challenge in terms of America being involved in the Vietnam War and in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. A photograph shows Richard Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon, daughters Julie and Tricia and Julie's husband David Eisenhower at a beach. He says that present time is different from World Wars I and II because now America is a great power and there should be a best possible leader to lead the nation. Nixon states that America needs a kind of leadership that would obtain peace and avoid war and surrender. A picture of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nixon.
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