Presidential campaign TV commercial for the Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew ticket in 1968. Citizens of United States in view. Richard Nixon with a huge crowd. People shake hands with him. Several people take his photographs. Richard Nixon talks and laughs with people. People carry banners. Banners read 'Nixon', 'Welcome' and 'Nixon for President'. He shakes hands with people across a car. He greets people and waves hands. A child holds United States flag. A huge crowd carries a banner. The banner reads 'Nixon is the one'. The advertisement features a montage of stills of Nixon among supportive crowds, and narration by Nixon asking for involvement by citizens in their country and their government, and asking for their hands in working together.
A television political advertisement about Richard Nixon in the United States during the 1968 election. Nixon speaking while images of Americans are shown. He talks of America being a great nation. A man with his horse in a desert. A multistory building. An old workman with a map. Different men at work. A workman with his tool. A man lights a hurricane lantern.
The keel laying of supercarrier USS Nimitz (CVAN-68) at the Newport News Ship Building & Drydock in Newport News, Virginia, USA during the Cold War. The crowd gathers around the keel of the USS Nimitz. Journalists take photos. Washington State Senator Henry M. Jackson authenticates the keel laying. Senator Jackson uses a hammer to strike a rivet on the keel. Senator Jackson is assisted by an officer believed to be retired Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Jr. The man assisting Senator Jackson holds the rivet in place. Crane carries the keel off. Sign on top of keel reads "USS NIMITZ, CVAN-68, KEEL LAID JUNE 22nd, 1968.". United States Navy officials, guests gathered in a group to watch the ceremony. View of men in the empty drydock. The keel is seen hanging from crane hook, the USS Nimitz sign on top of keel. Some workers down in empty drydock wait for keel to be laid on blocks which is lowered slowly. The keel being laid on the blocks as guests watch the ceremony.
Trailer trucks loaded with bombs enters the munitions loading docks at a Strategic Air Command Base in Guam, during the Vietnam War. Armorers assemble tail fins and insert fuses in AN-M113A1 thousand pound bombs. Caps being removed and fuses being screwed into bomb noses. Arming wires fastened to the fuses. 750 pound bombs being unloaded from racks and mounted under wings of B-52. Loaded B-52s taking off from airfield in darkness and climbing to high cruise altitudes from where the setting sun is still visible, as they fly West.
United States airmen in Takhli, Thailand during the Vietnam War. The airmen are seated at a table as they eat food in a dinning hall at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base. The airmen are being served food by personnel. Plates and glasses stacked up. A man serves food in a plate. The airmen eat their meal. An airmen enters the dinning hall. A sign reads ' Dinning Hall '.
U.S. Airmen (figefighters) of the 430th Tactical Fighter Squadron are seen performing maintenance on fire truck and equipment in their firehouse at the Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, during the Vietnam War. Glimpse of airmen relaxing in a ready room. Others are sunbathing on cots outdoors. Parked aircraft and fuel trucks are seen on an airfield apron. One taxis forward, slightly. Suddenly, an airman in a flight suit is seen running as fast as possible to the firehouse. He runs into a shower locker room where some airmen are seated, grabs a roll of toilet paper, and runs outside, dropping the roll, once, in his haste. Next, several airmen run from the shower locker room Camera focuses on a coiled cobra snake sitting in the sun, at the shower facility. It jumps towards the building. An airman with a hooked pole, pulls the snake from an awning, onto the ground, where others surround it and use shovels, clubs, and other implements to kill it. the airman with the hook poses, holding the dead snake aloft. It appears to be about 8 feet long. Glimpse of sunbather lying unperturbed on his cot.
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