1960-1966VIETNAM WAR
This film documents the buildup to the Vietnam War (late 1950's to early 1960's), from the withdrawal of French troops to the bombings of the U.S. Embassy and the intense fighting our troops engaged in to combat Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong. The footage features President Lyndon Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
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| 01:00:02 2.09 |
President Lyndon Johnson speaks into mics about a letter he received from a woman who wrote that her son was in Vietnam, her husband served in WWII and states that this time she doesn't understand this war, why?
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| 01:00:38 38.2 |
Why Viet-Nam film begins - opener - troops in combat, a Vietnamese baby cries, burning rubble...
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| 01:00:57 57.67 |
A parade in Munich, 1938, German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler rides standing up in an open car. Thousands of onlookers give the Heil Hitler salute as his car drives by. Nazi flags fly.
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| 01:01:05 65.51 |
British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, disembarks a plane in Munich for a meeting, welcomed by Nazi soldiers standing at attention.
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| 01:01:14 74.33 |
Adolf Hitler and Chamberlain walk together up the stairs. Tilt down on the crowd of thousands all giving the heil Hitler salute.
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| 01:01:22 82.77 |
Adolf Hitler and another soldier (unknown) stand at an open balcony looking out.
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| 01:01:26 86.46 |
British Prime Minister Chamberlain reads an agreement recently signed to the people where the two nations agreed with the desire never to go to war again.
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| 01:01:44 104.4 |
Cutaway to a war ravished city. A crumbled city and countryside.
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| 01:01:51 110.99 |
Benito Mussolini on board a ship in Ethiopia. Soldiers on horseback and on foot running across a field - invasion of Ethiopia by Italy in 1935
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| 01:02:04 124.07 |
Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie at podium,, he made his protest to the League of Nations - nothing was done.
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| 01:02:12 132.8 |
The iconic Nazi eagle statue.
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| 01:02:15 135.5 |
Austria - the Anschiuss (the annexation of Austria into the German Reich) - dozens of soldiers stand at attention. Hitler on an open balcony gives the salute.
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| 01:02:21 141.57 |
1950 -live footage - bombs explode in the night sky. Soldiers firing stationary machine guns and rifles in the Korean War. tanks and explosions.
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| 01:02:52 172.89 |
President Johnson at mics asks the people, why Americans would have to die, toil, and suffer in such a remote place (Vietnamn) and states the answer is not an easy one. He states it echoes from lessons of a half a century of other wars where Americans have gone to foreign lands to fight for Freedom.
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| 01:04:04 244.01 |
Announcer gives background to our involvement in Vietnam. Overhead shots of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.
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| 01:04:10 250.82 |
Military plane circa 1960's in flight, cloudy skies. CU a military piilot in cockpit
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| 01:04:14 254.53 |
Dozens of parachutes floating in the air, parachutists jumping from planes, landing in fields
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| 01:04:26 266.84 |
Battlefield in Vietnam - North vs. South and some of both battling with the French. Bombings, ground battle, war
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| 01:04:47 287.39 |
1954 Hanoi - a Vietnamese woman on her knees digging the ground with her hands. An old woman, small child - reflect the ravages of war
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| 01:04:58 298.72 |
Vietnamese and French soldiers march across a bridge, red star flag flies over Hanoi, Communist forces move in.
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| 01:05:08 308.4 |
Tilt down on a conference in Geneva - tables set up in a large square. Officials come to an agreement dividing Vietnam into the North and South and turning the North to the Communists. and the end of French colonial rule.
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| 01:05:26 326.27 |
Signatures on the agreement. officials shake hands,
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Hundreds of Vietnamese leaving fleeing to the south, carrying their goods on their heads, babies in pouches and in their arms - fleeing Communism.
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| 01:05:44 343.99 |
Rendering of Vietnam in 1954 divided in the 17th parallel
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| 01:05:53 353.95 |
aerials over Vietnam - clouds hovering in the mountains,
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| 01:06:01 361.8 |
South Vietnam - people work in the fields - in peace
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| 01:06:12 372.4 |
South Vienamese vote in free elections, place their ballots in the ballot boxes.
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| 01:06:32 392.43 |
WS Vietnamese working in the farm land fields. They own their fields and reap what they sow. CU sickles cutting through the wheat
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| 01:06:46 406.77 |
South Vietnamese on fishing boats
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| 01:06:52 412.44 |
North Vietnamese building villages.
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| 01:07:06 426.2 |
A bullet ridden car, windshield smashed with bullet holes, dead body inside. Buildings destroyed in Communist North Vietnam.
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| 01:07:21 441.03 |
North Vietnamese soldiers in the jungle. Open "guerilla warfare" on south Vietnam by the Communists.
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| 01:07:30 450.07 |
Vietnamese village burning, soldiers run by thatched huts on fire. Flames shoot into the sky. Debris from destroyed village, dead bodies strewn about including children.
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| 01:07:48 468.72 |
Still framed photo Ho Chi Minh
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| 01:07:52 472.9 |
South Vietnamese walk through the rice fields spraying fertilizer (?) - hand drawn map of Vietnam and surrounding countries overlay. Primitive equipment used to smash rice. Workers digging on the hillsides for raw materials, coal, zinc, tin, phosphate. Man sawing away on a natural rubber tree. Workers at a latex processing facility making raw rubber from scratch using primitive machinery.
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| 01:09:09 549.76 |
Cutaway - Gettysburg College in 1959. Graduation. President Eisenhower speaks about the cost of defending freedom and America.
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| 01:09:36 576.25 |
Vietnamese men signing up for the military to go to war. Supplies are handed out to the men, they pile up onto open trucks and take off.
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| 01:09:50 590.6 |
Pretty young Vietnamese gals walk amidst the throngs.
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| 01:09:52 592.52 |
1960. South Vietnamese soldiers climb on board a train. Steam engine train moving along as bombs explode on the tracks.
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| 01:10:03 603.77 |
Narrator talks about what a different kind of war this is. there are no marching armies - and It is guided by North Vietnam and spurred by Communist China - with the goal being to conquer South Vietnam.
Guns firing from hidden places, soldiers running through the brush, bombs exploding, scenes of men at war. |
| 01:10:34 634.6 |
Vietnamese soldiers carrying the wounded.
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| 01:10:47 647.9 |
1961 the United States gets involved. Americans acting only as advisors at this point.
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| 01:11:12 672.18 |
A U.S. soldier holds a rifle and speaks in Vietnamese as the Vietnamese men listen.
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| 01:11:28 688.01 |
U.S. soldiers in the field looking at a map. CU hands pointing at places on the map.
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| 01:11:35 695.25 |
South Vietnamese soldiers carrying heavy equipment trudge through the woods, hiding in bushes, shooting through the weeds, camouflaged. Guerrilla Warfare.
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| 01:12:09 729.46 |
CU the face of a young North Vietnamese captured soldier.
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| 01:12:11 731.15 |
A long line of North Vietnamese civilian men, tied up, captured - guided toward a presumed camp - men forced to join and fight in the war.
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| 01:12:22 742.13 |
South Vietnamese people from remote villages gather outside an American make shift medical facility for medical help. Military medical workers examine the injured.
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| 01:12:43 763.4 |
Tilt down from above on a long line of flying helicopters arriving in Vietnam. U.S. trained Vietnamese (N.) soldiers board helicopters and take off flying overhead.
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| 01:13:17 797.88 |
Soldiers jump out of helicopters, landing in the river and bush. Narrator talks about the difficult war - no front lines, the war is everywhere.
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| 01:13:31 811.08 |
POV from helicopter looking down at soldiers hidden in the jungle. U.S. soldiers are seen, a soldier is taken out on a stretcher as a photographer takes pictures.
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| 01:14:11 851.68 |
rifles being fired from the military Naval patrol boats in the river (most likely the Mekong Delta). soldiers running across the beaches and bush. Live footage of combat action, bullets and bombs exploding
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CU a badly injured Vietnamese soldier on a stretcher, bandaged, his face expressing pain. Various shots of the injured or dead. Faces of saddened Vietnamese women. A Vietnamese soldier prays.
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Fade out.
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| 01:15:14 914.02 |
August 1964. President Johnson speaks from podium into camera and announces the United States further involvement in the Vietnam War - U. S. troops are ordered to fight.
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| 01:15:37 937.76 |
Ships and soldiers off to war. POV from plane overhead, bombs being dropped over Communist North Vietnam.
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| 01:16:09 969.86 |
Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, speaks into mics August 1964 and staets ,"we seek no wider war"...
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| 01:16:29 989.29 |
Boxes and boxes of small arms ammunition captured from the North and being unloaded by U.S. military. Boxes of rifles, submachine guns, bombs.
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| 01:16:59 1019.59 |
CU bombs with Chinese markings - supplies from China to the North.
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| 01:17:19 1039.18 |
President of North Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
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| 01:17:22 1042.8 |
U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, speaks into camera. He talks, in detail, about the several attempts at peace that have gone unheeded with North Vietnam. He sums it up, with Hanoi resisting the road to peace, the Chinese Communist purpose remains clear - the domination of all of Southeast Asia, and in reality, the domination of the "great world beyond"...
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| 01:20:24 1224.05 |
side shot, President Lyndon B. Johnson - early 1960s.
He states that "...the people of South Vietnam shall have the right of choice, the right to shape their own destiny and free elections in the South...under international supervision and they shall not have any government imposed upon them by force and terror, so long as we can prevent it..." |
| 01:21:28 1288.35 |
Helicopters on the ground, CU's of destroyed helicopters and aircraft, buildings and military barracks. Still framed photo of an American child amidst the destruction.
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| 01:21:56 1315.98 |
Several injured civilians: An injured man, blood on his clothing, holds a cloth to his bloodied face. Another man holds his head to the side of his face, blood runs down his white shirt. Another bloodied up civilian man wearing a white shirt and tie, is helped by others.
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| 01:22:05 1325.88 |
A woman with blood dripping down from her ear and down her face and neck.
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| 01:22:08 1328.78 |
A man on a stretcher, his face cut and blood running down everywhere, all over his clothes.
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| 01:22:12 1332.92 |
POV from a helicopter above looking down on another helicopter flying over Vietnam. Side shot of an Army helicopter in flight.
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| 01:22:17 1337.13 |
CU a soldier shooting a rifle down from a helicopter
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| 01:22:22 1342.44 |
American soldiers climbing out of a crashed helicopter being shot at as they run.
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| 01:22:33 1353.23 |
Inside a military medical barrack, soldiers lying on cots, some bandaged, some passed out
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| 01:22:43 1363.73 |
Coffins draped with American flags on a flatbed truck being transported into planes going home.
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| 01:23:07 1387.4 |
CU's on the many faces of the Vietnamese people, women young and oud, young men, kids...
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| 01:23:25 1405.4 |
Live footage - the United States military arrive in Vietnam.
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers on a ship, hover over the guard rails, arrive in Vietnam. Soldiers carrying equipment disembark. |
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American flag flying next to a U.S. Military flag.
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| 01:23:52 1432.85 |
Tilt down, soldiers climbing ropes (training)
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| 01:23:54 1434.78 |
Tilt down - Combat units of the U.S. Marine Corp arrive Vietnam by boat. Marines in full combat gear get off the boat and run across a sandy beach, an active combat zone.
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| 01:24:10 1450.54 |
U.S. Air Force and Army combat units arrive in Vietnam, climbing out of planes in full combat gear.
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| 01:24:21 1461.36 |
Dozens of U.S. soldiers on trucks drive through Vietnam.
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| 01:24:26 1466.34 |
Soldiers looking at maps of the region.
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| 01:24:31 1471.7 |
The women and children caught in the war, the suffering of the innocent. A family runs through a fields with their children in tow, an injured woman on a stretcher, a small child looks at the camera and cries.
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| 01:24:41 1481.34 |
Adorable Vietnamese children, about five or six years old, are led to open water faucets to wash up and comb their hair. They lay their napkins down and have a meal.
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| 01:25:12 1512.04 |
Cutaway, President Johnson talks into mic about how difficult it is to send our "fine young men into battle"... Various CU shots of young American men from every walk of life, laborers, oowboys, singers, construction workers.
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| 01:25:35 1535.27 |
Tilt down pan across a huge crowd of the mixed faces of American people, men and women.
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| 01:25:42 1542.77 |
And the Chinese Chairman of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong
Photo still of Ho Chi Minh |
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Tilt down. U.S. Navy war ship at sea. Planes on deck and taking off from the ship.
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| 01:26:01 1561.45 |
Planes in flight dropping bombs.
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| 01:26:06 1566.46 |
Tilt down - bombs exploding over Vietnam
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| 01:26:10 1570.17 |
CU bombs dropping out of a plane.
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| 01:26:18 1578.68 |
U.S. soldiers in tanks, soldiers getting off boat in full combat gear, soldiers in the jungle, - with narration by LBJ, finalizes speech as to why we're in Vietnam.
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| 01:26:42 1602.66 |
President. Johnson LBJ giving speech about WHY the Vietnam war.
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End reel.
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