U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 196th Light Infantry Brigade making their way across a valley in Vietnam. They dismantle and flatten a wooden pole hut in an empty village that had been used by North Vietnamese NVA 2nd Regiment. Next, a U.S. soldier strikes a match and they set fire to roofs of empty huts and crushed huts to destroy them. (Vietnam War period).
Foreign dignitaries arrive for the state funeral of assassinated U.S. President John F Kennedy. French President Charles De Gaulle arrives at a terminal building of Dulles Airport. He greets officials and ministers from former French Colonies in Africa, French officials and officers including a General, Admiral and an Air Force General. The President is followed by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Foreign Minister of France Maurice Couve De Murville. President De Gaulle shakes hands with officials. He receives an applause from by standers at the airport. Photographers click pictures of the dignitaries. Dean Rusk leads the President through the terminal gate to the waiting State Department limousine. The President, his military aide and security guard get into the car and leave for Washington DC. The U.S. Capitol building. Secretary of State Rusk walks towards his car behind the terminal building.
Foreign dignitaries arrive for the state funeral of assassinated U.S. President John F Kennedy. U.S. officials await the arrival of Israeli President Zalman Shazar. President Shazar enters the terminal with U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir. The President greets the Israeli Embassy staff. President Shazar, Secretary Rusk, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, Ambassador of Israel Avraham Harman and the military attache of the Embassy pose for the photographers. Secretary Rusk escorts the dignitaries towards the waiting cars. Photographers take pictures. A television presenter winds up the report on the arriving dignitaries.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying a sling load of rice. Vietnamese refugees sitting in a compound as they await evacuation. Refugees board a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter. Refugee women and children in traditional Vietnamese hats sitting in the compound. Refugees board a CH-47. The helicopter takes off.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Aerial view of the area. U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopters in flight. Fire Support Base Lima. U.S. and South Vietnamese medics carry an injured Vietnamese soldier aboard a UH-1D helicopter. The pilot at the controls in the cockpit. Medics carry the wounded soldier off the helicopter at the 2nd ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) hospital. The UH-1D helicopter takes off. Vietnamese and United States soldiers seated around a table in the jungle. Numerous tents nearby.
Agricultural conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by an Indian delegation visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. The agricultural aspects of the plan (during which the great famine in China took place). The Chinese countryside. Farmers use tractors, machines, and other equipment for farming. Farmers plow fields, thresh crop and make haystacks using pitchforks. Men and women dig farmland. Millions of Chinese peasant people are organized to work the land, clear land, build dams and dig canals. Peasants working in Communist government-organized People's Communes for farming. Farmers work, cultivate and harvest crops using human labor to make up for lack of machinery. Chinese peasants seen farming barren land also affected by floods and locust. People engaged in construction work. People's Republic of China Chairman Mao Zedong visits the communes. The commune system is abandoned in 1961 in favor of collective agriculture. Small units of 20 farm families cultivate land as directed by local farmers. Farmers cultivate land, harvest crops. Men and women pick cotton. Young Chinese boys and girls attend university in China. Young boys on bicycles. University students in a classroom. The university campus. Children on the playground in a school. They perform the 'Turnip Dance' on stage as other children and teachers watch.
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