Significant events and happenings in the year 1966. Seven nation summit conference on Vietnam in Manila. Pope Paul VI meets with the Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey in Rome, Italy. Wedding of the year in which President Lyndon Johnson's daughter, Luci Baines Johnson weds Patrick Nugent. Rescue workers take out victims of floods and landslides in various parts of world. American people cast their votes in the elections.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Stalinist government in Hungary. Civilians, police and military mingling amiably. Hungarian Communist Leader, Janos Kadar enters a car with an Army General. Civilians walk around a Soviet tank in a market. Hungarian soldiers stand on roads and talk to each other. Animated map shows flow of Soviet Forces surrounding Budapest to put down the insurrection. Soviet tanks firing point blank into buildings. Fires raging. A radio announcer is seen at a center from which multilingual broadcasts are being made about the events in Budapest. A technician in broadcast center. Speaker labeled "Hungarian." Brief view of UN meeting in New York. Revolutionaries fire on Soviets from remnants of destroyed buildings. Damaged Soviet tank. Hungarian National flags fly over abandoned litters in a small park. Dead revolutionary in a coffin being transported for burial in a cemetery. Some snow on the ground. People in various parts of the world express sympathy for the Hungarian insurrectionists. Black wreathes are hung. Youth in West Berlin, Germany, carry banner calling for Freedom for Hungary. Supportive demonstrations in Vietnam, France, and Italy. Black wreathes are placed in Poland.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. U.S. First Lady Mrs. Pat Nixon and Mrs. Thieu pose for a photograph before a garden luncheon. They walk past President Nixon and President Thieu conferring in the garden. The First Ladies walk towards their lunch table at a poolside. Pat Nixon and Mrs. Thieu talk to each other in the garden.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. U.S. President Richard Nixon on a platform for the final communique during the visit of Vietnamese delegation. President Nixon speaks from a podium. The First Lady Pat Nixon and Mrs Thieu stand by the side of the platform and listen to the speech. Press reporters take notes of the speech of President Nixon. Vietnamese President delivers his speech after President Nixon finishes with his speech. Invited guests and dignitaries at the venue.
President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu during his visit to San Clemente in California, United States. Vietnamese President Van Thieu walks down from a platform at a ceremony. He shakes hands with various American dignitaries. Pat Nixon and Mrs. Thieu also shake hands with spectators and invited guests at the ceremony. President Nixon, President Thieu and their wives walk on the red carpet at the venue. Members of South Vietnamese and American delegation shake hands with them. Spectators holding Vietnamese flags watch them. Dignitaries at the venue shake hands with the South Vietnamese dignitaries.
United States troops of the 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division in Cambodia, during the Vietnam War. Several soldiers are seen in wooded area. One talks over a PR-25 radio from a tree line at the edge of large open field. Another soldier slings an M-60 machine gun over his shoulder. Then, carrying their gear, the soldiers walk across the open field toward an area where a camp is being set up. In the distance, a UH-1 Huey helicopter sits with engine running and rotor blades turnng. The soldiers enter the tree line where others are assembling with their gear and supplies, next to the open field. The soldier carrying the M-60 machine gun, waves to the camera. Closeup of some soldiers who have pitched a couple of tents and are opening boxes of supplies. A change of scene shows several troops escorting a captured North Vietnamese army (NVA) soldier, whose hands are tied behind him, to a UH-1 helicopter with engine running. The Huey is next seen taking off with the prisoner aboard. Closeup of black NVA cap, left behind,in the mud. (Note: Within a few days, all these troops distinguished themselves in combat with North Vietnamese Army troops. One, in particular, Leslie H. Sabo, Jr. Specialist Fourth Class, of Company B, 3d Battalion, heroically sacrificed his life, in combat on May 10, 1970, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.)
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