U.S. Fire Support Base Ripcord in the A Shau Valley, South Vietnam, under siege by North Vietnam Army forces during the Vietnam War. Several 105mm towed howitzers are positioned atop the base, with barrels at high elevations. Camera focuses on Gunners loading and firing one. The wind is blowing very hard, complicating their activity and causing the cameraman trouble too, as it buffets his camera. The camera views several guns operating in the battery. The Battery then level their guns to fire point blank at their targets. (They also increase their powder charge to 7, the maximum.) the resultant recoil strikes and injures SP/4 Bowing of a gun crew, who falls and is seen lying at the back of his gun. The crew calls for help and carries him to the ground. Cameraman stops filming briefly.. Next, a soldier is seen leaning over SP/4 Bowing, rendering aid.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Troops in formation with all services color guard. President Johnson goes to a platform. Officials salute the President. He steps down from the platform with General William C Westmoreland. The President and General Westmoreland review troops in an open jeep (driven by John P. Ward of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin). Both then return to the platform. Troops march at the air base. President Johnson pins medals on U.S. military men.
Former President of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. People gathered at a ceremony. The coffin of a soldier carried over a horse drawn phaeton followed by officers. Former U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson with wife Edith Bolling Galt Wilson in a horse drawn carriage on their way to the Arlington National Cemetery. Soldiers stand in formation. Former President Wilson with wife Edith Wilson arrives at the cemetery. Soldiers carry the coffin out of the horse drawn phaeton. A soldier plays a trumpet. Cars driven among a crowd.
Americans pay last homage to the President of the United States Warren Gamaliel Harding in Washington DC. U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding's casket on a horse drawn carriage followed by marching officers passes by the front of the White House. The former President of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson with wife Edith Bolling Galt Wilson in a horse drawn carriage. People stand on road side as President Harding's casket passes. Jeeps parked on the road side.
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Valdez, Alaska. Tug boats tow the Exxon Valdez to another island. Oil layer over water. The oil spread over water in the Kenai Peninsula. Oil spreads over water in the Gulf of Alaska. United States Coast Guard aircraft Dassault Falcon 20 in flight. Screen shows the tracking of oil spread. Pilot and copilot at controls. Men disembark aircraft. Ships loaded with man and equipment in the Prince William Sound. Men in the control room at work. Vice Admiral of U.S. Coast Guard Clyde E Robbins with other officers.
Footage of former U.S. President William Howard Taft, recently retired the week before as Chief Justice of the United States. Exterior view of the Taft house in Washington DC at 2215 Wyoming Avenue NW, Washington DC. (A Georgian Revival style house built in 1904 and purchased by Taft from Congressman Alvin Fuller. It later was the home of the Embassy of Syria in Washington DC). Car out front. Taft is returning from Asheville North Carolina to Washington DC, as he has fallen ill. William Howard Taft is taken out of a car by a few men. The men assist William Taft in walking into his house. (Taft died in the home a month later on March 9, 1930).
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