U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge speaks to the reporters on his arrival in Washington D.C., United States. An aircraft lands at the airfield. U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge returns to Washington to end his duties after ten months in the Southeast Asian nation. Henry Cabot Lodge comes out of the aircraft followed by a woman. He is being greeted at the Washington Airport by General Maxwell D Taylor. A large number of reporters wait for Henry Lodge at the airport. Henry Cabot Lodge answers the reporters' questions and gives some straight-forward comments on both Vietnam and his own political position.
President Nixon speaks with press reporters about Vietnamization of the war. He says that immediate withdrawal from Vietnam would lead to damages to both the U.S. and South Vietnam
European hostages, rescued from Stanleyville, arriving at Leopoldville airport in the Congo, during insurrection there in 1964. Rescued persons deplane from U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft by way of its rear cargo door and ramps. Sick and wounded are met by medical personnel who place them in ambulances. Next, text from 3rd Geneva Convention, of 1949, is displayed. Scene shifts to U.S. military advisers in Vietnam helping train Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) in proper treatment of prisoners; methods of taking prisoners with minimum of force; interrogation methods; and medical treatment of wounded prisoners. (Vietnam War period).
South Vietnamese civilians escaping Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese, at the end of the Vietnam War. USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) maneuvering off shore of South Vietnam. Flotilla of small Vietnamese civilian boats carrying evacuees approach the USS Blue Ridge. U.S. Navy sailors take lines from the boats and help refugees to board the US Navy ship.
Evacuation of ethnic Vietnamese refugees from Cambodia during the Vietnam War (to escape massacres of ethnic Vietnamese by Cambodian forces). An American commercial aircraft taxis on a runway. A truck drives to the aircraft and backs up to the doorway of the airplane. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers help to load baggage from the truck on the aircraft, which will fly to South Vietnam. The refugees seated on the ground. The truck is driven away.
Artist's sketch of U.S. Army field grade officer. Sketches of soldiers, arms, and equipment, including tanks, machine guns, missiles. President Lyndon B. Johnson, addressing the nation, relates receiving a letter from a woman who doesn't understand why America is fighting in Vietnam. Two U.S. Army captains in jungle fatigues, walk past a helmeted tank crewman, in Vietnam. Closeup of Vietnamese woman holding her crying baby. View of man on his haunches over a fire in destroyed building. (Vietnam War period).