Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1: A look back at the Cold War events and personalities that led to open & hostile escalation of American military intervention in Southeast Asia, 1970, culminating with the Inauguration of Richard Nixon. Both color & B&W footage included.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
Color: MS of Chief Justice EARL WARREN administering Oath of Office to RICHARD NIXON while LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON & PAT NIXON watch on, January 20, 1969. CU draft card being held, burned at anti-war protest rally. MSs anti-war demonstrators in Washington, DC. CU protesters giving peace sign. MS red flag with peace sign flying. MS DC police officers breaking up rally, hauling away unruly protesters into paddy wagon.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
Color: MS President Richard Nixon delivering inaugural address: "We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but failing into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity." MS/TLSs hundreds of construction workers in yellow hardhats (hard hats) running along Wall Street w/ American flags, breaking up anti-war protest, violently beating up protesters on steps of Federal Hall, New York City. TLS/MSs peaceful anti-war protesters (white youth & clergy) marching in Washington, DC, passing Capitol Building.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
Color: TLS/MSs US Army soldiers fighting in jungles of Vietnam. CU wounded soldier crying out. CU surgical needle being pulled from sterilized metal container. MS GIs loading wounded soldiers onto Red Cross Huey helicopter. MS wounded African-American soldier hobbling, falling, Caucasian GI helping him. MS field medics (corpsman) working on wounded GI.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
B&W: Cold War background history: MS Sen Richard Nixon sitting on House of Un-American Activities Committee hearings. MS witness RONALD REAGAN being sworn in by committee. TLS line of five newsreel cameramen at hearings. TLS crowd sitting at hearings. Cut to LS/MSs Chinese Nationalist soldiers wearing British styled MK 1 helmets marching along Great Wall.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
DO NOT USE: Still of MAO TSE-TUNG (Mao Zedong).
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
B&W Indochina War: TLS/MSs French artillery firing; MSs French soldiers fighting the Viet Minh.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
DO NOT USE: Still Photo
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
DO NOT USE: Still of Secretary of State Dean Acheson & President Harry Truman shaking hands; text scrolls quoting Acheson memo advocating intervention in SE Asia to stop the spread of Communism.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
B&W: MSs wounded French soldiers on stretchers being moved to & from helicopters; MS French officers talking w/ two anti-communist Vietnamese soldiers on street; TLS crowd of Vietnamese waving straw hats; panning h/a LS Geneva negotiations.
Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT1
DO NOT USE: Still photo