Captain Fincher, U.S. Army, instructing at the Infantry NCO candidate course,US Army Infantry School , Fort Benning, Georgia. The NCO candidates seated in front of the instructor. One of them stands. A Sergeant instructs candidates in handling of barbed wire and fortification of positions. A firing range in operation. Soldiers descending from a parked airplane, at Hang Khong, Vietnam. Sign reading: "Lightning, Mines Booby Traps and tunnel,Training Center". Instructor showing soldiers munitions. Sign reading: "Devil Weapons of the Viet Cong." Troops, suspended from taut line, crossing a river, and rappelling from a height. (Vietnam War period).
Shoppers at the E. J. Korvette store at 45th street in New York City. Santa Claus stands in front of the store, ringing a bell to raise money for the Volunteers of America. In the store, children play with toys under a sign reading 'Toyland.' Views of the store while riding down the escalator. A woman dressed in a fur coat shops in the housewares department. In Concord, California, college students pack gifts that are being sent to United States soldiers fighting war in Vietnam. View of entrance to Travis Air Force Base. The workers for Operation Christmas Star load gifts for the GIs into a Douglas C-124 Globemaster cargo plane at Travis Air Force Base. Students watch as the plane takes off. (Vietnam War period).
U.S. President Richard Nixon's press conference at White House in Washington DC. President Nixon speaks in a hall packed with press reporters. He speaks about his interaction with colleges and universities about the Vietnam War issues. A reporter asks him about the protesters' demands against the Vietnam War.
Bodies of persons killed in Congo, when some 200 foreigners and thousands of Congolese were executed by rebel "Simbas" in Stanleyville and environs, in 1964. Evidence being gathered to facilitate prosecution of perpetrators. Major-general Joseph Mobutu (Mobutu Sese Seko), Congo Army chief of Staff, is seen confering with other Congo officials. Two possible perpetrators are seen. Rescued persons receiving food at a temporary camp. Persons accused of inhumane treatment of others on trial. Soldiers using force to capture troublemakers. Delegates seen at the Third Geneva Convention at the Palace of Nations in in 1949. Viet Cong prisoners being treated humanely, in accordance with the provisions of the 3rd Geneva Convention, during Vietnam war. Some seen switching allegiance to Republic of Vietnam.
United States Air Force ( USAF ) support for the evacuation of Cambodian refugees from Boung Long, Cambodia during the Vietnam War. A woman seated on the ground with her child. Refugees walk along a road. The refugees with their belongings. Aircraft in the background. An airman uses a radio in a jeep and talks with several Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 4, 1964, announcing that he is ordering U.S. military forces to respond to an incident involving hostile action by North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin. View of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Constellation (CV-64) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam. Next, pilots are seen walking on flight deck of the carrier,USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14). Behind them are A-3B Skywarriors of VAH-4 "Fourrunners," Det. B (tail code "ZB"). One displays BuNo 142255. Clear view, from another aircraft overhead, of a U.S. carrier-based Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircraft diving and firing a rocket at a target in North Vietnam and pulling out over hills afterwards. View of another rocket headed toward a target in hills, followed by fairly close views of an A-4 making another attack. U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert MacNamara, broadcasting that "We seek no wider war."
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