Fire aboard the aircraft carrier, USS Oriskany (CVA-34) from accident with flares. Latter stages of fire, with smoke still rising slightly on flight deck and from forward area starboard, below the flight deck. Sailors standing on flight deck with fire hoses laying all over the deck area. Man looks down the edge of the deck area. Firefighters donning Oxygen Breathing Apparatus (OBA) standing in the Sponson deck. They check each others equipment and prepare to enter the area of lingering fire. Smoke emerging from that area below the flight deck.
The December 1, 1969 Draft Lottery for the year 1970 is held at the United States Selective Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. The draft lottery is led by General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. The ceremony begins with a benediction, and then an official pours slips of paper containing birth dates into a glass bowl. Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York draws the first birth date. He declares the date, September 14, and another man pastes the birth date next to a number on a board. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee draw additional birth dates and the board is filled out with the draft sequence.
United States KC-135 A aircraft in Takhli, Thailand. KC-135 A aircraft and four F-105 D aircraft fly in formation. The aAircraft fly above fleecy clouds. A F-105 D aircraft is refueled from a KC- 135 A above it. The aircraft being refueled while in flight. Control panel of an aircraft.
United States F-105 D aircraft in Takhli, Thailand. An F-105 D aircraft is refueled from above by a KC-135 A aircraft while in flight. A pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The aircraft flies above fleecy clouds. F-105 is refueled with a hose from above.
Anti-war groups hold a moratorium march in Washington D.C., United States. Peace activists and peace demonstrators outside Department of Justice building in Washington D.C. A boy on a pedestal. Policemen lined up during the rally. A number of people on a platform as they take pictures. A girl sits on the pedestal. People outside an official building. People with banners bearing names around their neck. A banner reads 'Free all political prisoners'. People walk towards the U.S. Capitol.
The Indo China War in Indochina. Army trucks move in rebel held towns. French soldiers carry wounded men on litters. Troops fire artillery. Dead people on the ground. Natives sitting. Huts and houses of a town on fire. French soldiers move in the streets. The troops are in action for mopping up entrenched Vietnamese. Vietnamese are being transferred onto a truck.
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