| EXPLOSION DISASTER IN SAIGON U.S. Embassy In Saigon Attacked | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 58 |
| Catalog #: | 312635 | |
| Clip Number: | 312635-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4010 E | |
| Timecode: | 11:13:08 - 11:17:22 | |
| Location: | Saigon, Vietnam | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Government, Embassies LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Vietnam (Indochina), South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) TERRORISM: Bombings WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Misc. | |
| Description: | CU two bodies on stretchers in the street. Tilt down on US embassy, with flag on top. Man with camera films military personnel attending to bodies on stretchers. Closer shot body - caucasian woman - stretcher passes camera. Same, of a differnet caucasian woman, badly burned. MS camera pans several injured and dead men lying in stretchers on the ground, while rescue workers load bodies into red cross trucks. GV outside embassy - windows blown out, personnel milling about. MS crowd of onlookers gathered across the street, pan to press photographers walking close to scene. Tilt down embassy building. CU sign "Parking Reserved for US Embassy." . Vietnamese soldiers and police contain the crowd, although the crowd seems quite passive. Several more CUs of the dead follow, some now covered with sheets. MS dead body loaded into a truck, and a truck. Man tried to close trunk of a car that is pulling awa (it pops open again). Firetruck tries to pull forward ans is stopped as it is about roll over bodies laid out on the ground. VS embassy, loading bodies, crowd control. Damaged buildings across the street. Military personnel escorting people away, preparing more stretchers. CU damaged building - pan to bombed out car. | |
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