| AMERICA LOOKS AT NORTH VIETNAM PROBLEM United States retailiates for North Vietnam firing at sea | ||
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| Tape Master: | 8899 | |
| Catalog #: | 236148 | |
| Clip Number: | 236148-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 3918 B | |
| Timecode: | 01:26:30 - 01:32:08 | |
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1964 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: United Nations JOURNALISM: Press Conference PERSONALITIES: Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) PERSONALITIES: Stevenson, Adlai Ewing WAR & CONFLICT: Guerrilla Warfare WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Misc. | |
| Description: | AMERICA LOOKS AT NORTH VIETNAM PROBLEM United States retaliates for North Vietnam firing at sea At Sea VS Ships of the U.S. fleet at sea, includes carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation. Aircraft taking off from the deck going on sorties against North Vietnam PT bases etc. Washington DC Two GV White House at night. VS President Johnson making a speech on the Vietnam crisis. He speaks to the press on the reasons for America's action: "In the larger sense this new act of aggression, aimed directly at our own forces, again brings home to all of us in the United States the importance of the struggle for peace and security in southeast Asia. Aggression by terror against the peaceful villagers of South Vietnam has now been joined by open aggression on the high seas against the United States of America. The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and to the government of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage. Yet our response, for the present, will be limited and fitting. We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. I have instructed the Secretary of State to make this position totally clear to friends and to adversaries and, indeed, to all. I have instructed Ambassador Stevenson to raise this matter immediately and urgently before the Security Council of the United Nations." New York, NY VS At special meeting of the Security Council and Adlai Stevenson speaks on the situation: "In Southeast Asia, we want nothing more and nothing less than the assured and guaranteed independence of the peoples of that area. We are in Southeast Asia to help our friends preserve their own opportunity to be free of imported terror, of alien assassination, managed by the North Vietnam communists based in Hanoi and backed by the Chinese Communists from Peking.”Three GV Exterior United Nations building. Vietnam American troop activity in Vietnam, their struggle against Communist guerillas. Officers are filmed giving order to troops. Soldiers board helicopters. American troops being landed from helicopter into swamps, etc. Troops exiting helicopters in fields to patrol. Trucks with soldiers and machine guns travel past camera. Troops march. VS Spotter planes returning to base in Vietnam after sortie to the borders. Washington DC Johnson's speech continued: "It is a solemn responsibility to have to order even limited military action by forces whose overall strength is as vast and as awesome as those of the United States of America, but it is my considered conviction, shared throughout your Government, that firmness in the right is indispensable today for peace; that firmness will always be measured. Its mission is peace." | |
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