Interiors of U.S. Embassy. Personnel examine the damage to the facility after attack during the Tet Offensive of January 1968. Bullet holes in wall. Embassy clock stopped at 3:03. Soldiers check Embassy grounds and cameraman takes pictures. Street and wrecked house. (Vietnam War period).
The Carlton Hotel (The St. Regis Washington, D.C., 923 16th St NW Washington, DC 20036, USA) in Washington DC. 'Carlton Hotel' written at the entrance. U.S. Army officers in uniform seated in Carlton Bar. Men and women drink and smoke in the bar. They converse with each other seated around tables.
U.S. Army cavalry troops on horseback and horse drawn carriages, during training exercises prior to participation in the Punitive Expedition in Mexico under leadership of General Funston. Troops fire rifles from bushes during exercises.
Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential Candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) arrives to a huge crowd of supporters in Springfield, Illinois. Franklin Roosevelt waves at the crowd from train caboose. Train carrying Franklin Roosevelt journeys towards Atlanta, Georgia. Crowds outside the Atlanta, Georgia State Capitol (Georgia State Capitol Building, 206 Washington St SW, Atlanta, GA 30334) showing support for Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt laughs and smiles with supporters as he sits in a convertible car. Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech under a floral arch to his Atlanta, Georgia supporters. With such a warm welcome, Roosevelt notes to those gathered that “insofar as carrying on a campaign in Georgia to get votes, my visit to this state has not been exactly necessary!”
State Department Foreign Service officer Boris Hansen Klosson narrates anti-communist film during the Cold War. Klosson speaks about the divisiveness and infiltration by communists change the people’s psyche. “The ties that once bound people to each other is systematically severed. In a society pockmarked by unknown informers, suspicion came to replace friendliness” Klosson said. The communist system ensures the individual would feel isolated and helpless without the state. the individual is made to believe that their only choice is carrying the will of the communist state. “Submit or be crushed- This is the ultimate aim of the communist seizure of power” Klosson concludes. Closing slide reads “In our unrelenting fight against the poison of Communism, our greatest weapon is knowledge. The more we know about our enemy, the greater is our strength”. (Film is example of Anti-communist or so called Red menace propaganda)
Community fallout shelters being stocked. Lorries and trucks on road carry supplies. View of Red Ball trucking line truck. Aerial, exterior view of United Nations Building in New York City. View inside United Nations building. United Nation Ambassador Stevenson asks the USSR delegate whether there are missile bases on Cuba. President Kennedy signs Quarantine order on what materials may be shipped to Cuba, to begin 10am on October 24, 1962. B-52 bombers take off, taking 24 hour missions. Interceptors and fighters take off. Views on aircraft carriers with fueling and takeoff operations on flight deck. Radar dishes and radio communications. U.S. battleship at sea. U.S. intercepts Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed. Reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba. Views of White House. SAC bombers and anti aircraft missiles on 5 to 15 minute alert to handle any critical situation. Interiors of control room inside the Headquarters of American Air Defense Command.
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