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Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library |
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| Available in NTSC formats: (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| Available in PAL formats: (72 hr. turn-around) |
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| DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) |
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| keywords: president lyndon b johnson, wwII, adolf hitler, prime minister neville chamberlain, vietnam |
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Synopsis: Using excerpts of speeches from President Lyndon B. Johnson and flashback of historical events to answer the question; Why Vietnam. President Johnston said, "We have learned retreat does not bring safety and weakness does not bring peace. It is this lesson that has brought us to Vietnam"... (read more) |
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Information: 30 min BW |
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Scenes include: Hitler and Mussolini standing while riding in open car. Munich 1938 Hitler-Chamberlain meeting will be remembered as opening the door for dictatorship. Shows WWII destruction. Italy, under the dictatorship of Mussolini, invaded Ethiopia. Haile Selassie appears before the League of Nations.
Then in 1950 aggression was again unleashed by the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North Korea. Scenes from the battle of Dien Bien Phu when the Viet Minh, a coalition of Communist and Vietnamese Nationalists under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, won the decisive victory against French forces. The French are shown leaving and the Red Star Communist flag flies over Hanoi. Shows signing of Geneva Agreements granting Indochina independence from France and dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel with the Communist controlling the north. Shows flood of refugees fleeing to South Vietnam. South Vietnam requests economic and military aid. Shows Ho Chi as a grandfatherly type playing with children.
In 1955 the United States and others form the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SETO) an alliance of nations to provide defense. The Communist North Vietnam government in Hanoi began a campaign of guerrilla warfare against South Vietnam calling it a war of liberation. Shows bodies of dead anti-Communist leaders, teachers, and their wives and children killed by the Viet Cong.
In a speech at Gettysburg College in 1959 President Eisenhower clearly recognizes the danger posed by North Vietnam. The United States sends Military Advisors to train the South Vietnam Army in anti-guerrilla warfare, many speaking the Vietnamese language. The South Vietnamese Army employs helicopters. In August 1964 the United States respond to the Gulf of Tonkin incident by attacking targets inside North Vietnam.
A plea from Secretary of State Dean Rusk to negotiate is ignored by North Vietnam. The war escalates as the American Embassy is bombed. Shows flag covered coffins of Americans soldiers being loaded onto aircraft to be returned to the United States. Combat units of the Marine Corp arrive in Vietnam. American troops, planes, and tanks join the fight against the Communist aggressors. |
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