Simulation of activities that took place during Tonkin Gulf Incident during 2-5 August 1964. The USS Turner Joy (DD-951) underway at sea. Ship's Captain, Commander Robert Chauncey Barnhart Jr., USN, standing with a telephone talker. Both wear helmets. Barnhart scans the horizon with a pair of binoculars. The telephone talker is wearing earphones. Operation's Officer Lieutenant J. Palmer, also wearing helmet, looks through the sighting area on pelorus and calls out bearings.
Re-enactment, some time after the actual event, of actions taken in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 2nd through 5th, 1964, aboard the USS Turner Joy (DD-951). Two crew members, wearing headsets,monitor radar screen and report their obervations on intercom. At another location, two officers and a sailor monitor another radar screen and converse on the interphone.
Cars and shops near the intersection of Master Street and Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, during the 1964 Philadelphia riots, also called the 1964 Columbia Avenue riots, in an era of racial tensions and civil rights struggles. People loot shops. Men and women take out articles from a shop. Broken window panes of a shop. A mannequin dummy on a road in front of a damaged garment shop. Exteriors of the damaged shops. A damaged car. A man walks through ruins of shops. Policeman attempts to clear looters from a shop.
Ramfis Trujillo, son of the assassinated Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, seated, and surrounded by dignitaries and the Press in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Among those with him is playboy, Porfirio Rubirosa, whom he assigns as an envoy to seek support from the United States. Reporters take notes and photographers click his pictures. Cathedral in San Cristobal, the scene of Trujillo's funeral. People cry as car with Rafael Trujillo's body passes by on street. Change of scene as next newsreel shows sweeping wide view of buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, and then scenes of a parade in Pretoria during holiday declared to mark its withdrawal from the British Commonwealth of Nations and establishment as an independent Republic. The parade includes Soldiers on horses. The new Coat of Arms of the South African Republic is shown. Former Governor General, now shifting to his role as the first President of South Africa, Charles Swart, addresses the public. Narrator indicates that Swart's comment include support for continued apartheid racial segregation in South Africa.
C-130 aircraft with opened cargo hatch and supplies being loaded. A C-130 cargo plane taxies and another one takes off in the background. U.S. troops march on airfield. U.S. Air Force personnel help a Catholic Priest arriving at airfield on a school bus. Foreign nationals are being evacuated and supplies are being brought in by U.S. Air Force Cargo planes. Long lines of C-130s taxi for takeoff. In West Africa, view from cockpit of a C-130 and from inside the cargo hold as the aircraft deploys extraction parachute with connected cargo of grain for the local population suffering severe drought. People gather around a town center square, where grain is being distributed. Woman carries basket of grain on her head.
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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