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U.S. Capitol building at night, zoom out to anti-war protesters at the Vietnam Moratorium, shouting the names of deceased soldiers and placing name cards into wooden caskets. Father walking, wearing the name of his son around his neck, holding a candle. More protesters silently walking by the White House with the names of deceased soldiers around their necks, carrying candles. They walk along a row of wooden coffins and hand the placards to a young white man who puts it into an open casket.
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U.S. vessel with soldiers disembarking, marching in Vladivostok, Siberia, 1918. Military representatives, soldiers from Japan, France, and Britain milling or marching. GV Russian people in front of large building. Government officials getting out of car, greeting one another. Bolshevik soldiers, civilians walking along fence, winter. VS Japanese soldiers marching, large crowd gathered; French and American soldiers doing same. Soldiers marching under different flags along street, onlookers. VS soldiers moving in countryside, city-- title card.
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Anti-war (Vietnam) protesters marching, carrying signs, and chanting. Protester waves the U.S. flag upside down (distress signal). Various shots of people (mostly Caucasian) singing and flashing the peace sign, White House and Washington Monument in background.
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Various shots of young Cuban men working in sugar cane field, using machetes to harvest cane. Cuban leader Fidel Castro giving an outdoor speech.
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The Bay of Pigs. Soldiers preparing boats to cast off, leave Cuban shore. Fidel Castro talking to soldiers. VS soldiers (enemies of the state) surrendering, walking with hands on their heads. Fidel Castro talking with soldiers, riding with them in a truck (M35?), walking beside tanks on Cuban beach. Dead soldiers lying on beach.
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U.S. Marines disembarking naval vessel and military aircraft, loading equipment onto rail cars. U.S. military vehicles carrying Marines on a highway in the Dominican Republic. U.S. fighter jets taking off. Tank rolling over the camera.
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Various shots of U.S. forces fighting in the streets of the Dominican Republic.
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Men working on an oil rig in Venezuela. Various shots of equipment used to produce and refine oil. Cut back and forth between oil refinery and men working on an oil rig.
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U.S. officers sitting at table, looking over reports. Map of Lebanon, zooming out to a military official moving pieces around the Mediterranean. U.S. naval craft landing on Lebanese shore, U.S. soldiers alighting and taking positions.
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U.S. Strike Command promotional film. Various shots of helicopters flying, U.S. soldiers fighting enemy, tanks and artillery firing rounds, and fighter jets dropping bombs and destroying targets.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird meeting with Japanese foreign minister and ambassador, shaking hands, taking pictures for the press. Japanese port and industrial facility intercut with shots of Japanese men and women spending leisure time on beach, having a picnic. More shots of Japanese industry (electronics, automobile manufacture, fishing, shipping). Scenic landscape contrasted with smelting process, a bus being lowered via crane. Woman carrying heavy wooden crate, Asian child carrying a baby, woman carrying water in village. Scenic landscape, cherry blossoms, and Mount Fuji in the distance. Audio of Dwight D. Eisenhower speech on U.S./Japanese relationship (April 4, 1959).
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Princeton University campus, Vietnam Moratorium protesters. One sign reads, “Protest is Patriotic. End the War." Statue on campus. Group of historians seated at half-circle table. Professor Gabriel Kolko speaks about the current and likely future political situation in Southeast Asia and Vietnam. This ties into how the U.S. will respond, acknowledging we are a resource deficit nation in terms of raw materials. Students listening, some taking notes.
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United States Air Force pilots walking with helmets to fighter jets. Various shots of fighter jets being taxied, taking off, and landing (ground based and on aircraft carriers). More shots of fighter jets in flight, firing rockets, and dropping napalm.
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Interview with former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul C. Warnke. He downplays the economic importance of Indochina to the United States, especially in comparison to Latin and South America.
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Street scenes, children, Puerto Rican community in Manhattan, NY. Community leader Ramon S. Velez walks and talks about the people in the community, why they live here now as opposed to Puerto Rico.
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Various shots of U.S. military intervention (specifically the Marine Corps) in Honduras (1903), Mexico (1914), Cuba, Dominican Republic (1916), and China (1927): Marines marching in formation; riding horseback; patrolling the streets of Haiti (cathedral in background); Cuban and American leaders together; street scenes in the Dominican Republic; black being led into a jail cell, door being shut behind them; Marine pilot getting into biplane; soldiers standing in formation in China, general street street and traffic; parade procession; Marine Brigadier General Smedley Butler being honored, given a wreath, and taking pictures.
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Peace Corps volunteer Bobbie Nelson is interviewed about power structure inequities in Colombia. Shots of poverty and street scenes in Colombia. Donkeys and people carrying large, heavy bags. Peace Corps volunteer Ron Nelson laments working within the government bureaucracy that limits the help the Colombian people can receive and does not represent the people’s needs. Colombian children and babies in poverty conditions. Colombian men sitting, smoking, talking with one another, or staring off into the distance.
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Protesters in Bolivia holding an anti-Nelson Rockefeller sign, chanting anti-government slogans. Governor Nelson Rockefeller holding outdoor press conference. State event, citizens filling the streets and street corners, police standing guard. Rockefeller walking through crowd. Military band playing music. Various shots of uniformed Latin American military forces.
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Chilean port and city. Molten metal being poured (industrial smelting). Three Chilean girls walking from hillside shanty town, each one holding bucket or bottle.
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Chilean banker Felipe Herrera sums up his feelings on U.S. economic policy.
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Interview with poet Pablo Neruda. “The future is nationalization.” Neruda sitting on rocky neach, sun setting in BG. Donald Ranstead notes that Latin America can no longer afford the luxury of the Alliance for Progress rhetoric. Shot of Bank of America sign in Chile. Chilean street scenes-- note police and military presence. Disheveled man reading a book under “Revolucion Cubana Victoria” sign. Various symbols and signs of different political parties. El Teniente, largest underground copper mine in the world, owned by Kennecott, an American company. Interview with a Chilean man (employee). Shots of poverty-stricken areas, shanty towns in Chile. People exiting building. Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Kodak signs. Marco Antonio Rogers, an executive with Standard Oil, argues against nationalization of Chilean enterprises. More Chilean street scenes. David Baytelman, a leading agricultural engineer, argues for nationalization. Dreary landscape, protest graffiti on walls. Chilean farmer and his child tilling land with oxen. Possible copper town, snow-capped mountain in BG. First National City Bank sign with Chilean woman standing beneath. Construction workers on scaffolding. “American Screw Chile” graffiti on white wall. Street scenes including marketplace, children playing.
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U.S. Senator Karl Mundt (R-South Carolina) justifies American investment in Chile, warns of dangers of communism spreading to neighboring countries. His view is contested by Charles A. Meyer, Assistant Secretary for Latin American Affairs, who thinks the United States has been too aggressive and militaristic-- shots of U.S. armed forces in Latin and South America-- in its dealings with its Latin and South American counterparts. Street scenes and shots of American signage (Sears, Bank of America, and Coca Cola) in Latin and South American countries.
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Various shots of a special military exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, attended by Latin American military leaders: various Latin American flags; low-flying military cargo plane dropping payload; demonstration of anti-guerrilla warfare; Latin American officers and different insignia; Peruvian General Arnaldo Winkelried, via translator, talks about the benefit of the Fort Bragg meeting. Various military personnel and officers including U.S. Army General William Westmoreland watching military exercises.
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U.S. soldiers reading Braggs Briefs newspaper. Interview with soldier about the Green Berets and their influence outside of the United States.
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United States Army film on U.S. Army Rangers training Bolivian soldiers in Bolivia. Shows weapon inspection, obstacle course maneuvers, target practice, and searching counter-insurgents for weapons and contraband.
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U.S. Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) walking outside with reporter; compares U.S. interventionism with that of the Soviet Union. He believes that we each try and force our ideologies on other countries in the midst of change, but that the United States should be more accepting of native ideologies and allow countries to determine their own fates through their own revolution. We should not try to “restructure the world." In doing so we may be able to be more efficient with our military, cut back on expenditures, and be more responsive to the needs of our own people. Shot of U.S. soldier searching an Asian man. VS bags of food being loaded, distributed, and carried to peoples in Africa/Latin America; Latino baby being held by mother; Asian woman carrying food bags on her shoulder; Asian woman breastfeeding child; Asian girl eating out of cup. VS U.S. armed forces mobilizing: de-boarding plane with equipment; officer giving presentation with charts and maps; mast of naval vessel; President Lyndon B. Johnson speaking from podium; two air force planes on tarmac; military officials sitting at table; soldiers boarding plane; military might display with vehicles, weaponry, and air power.
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U.S. soldier crossing a bouncy rope bridge in forest, fellow soldiers chant encouragement. United States military officers talking with one another, speaking on phone. Former US Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman discusses dangers of letting purely “military objectives” determine our foreign policy. Paratroopers on plane, getting green light to jump, jumping from plane, landing on the ground.
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U.S. military plane taking off, group of African men standing, watching in FG. Asian woman unloading food bag off her shoulder. Military official arriving in area where cargo seems to have been airdropped. Man adds food bag to pile while others stand and watch. Adviser to President Kennedy Ralph A. Dungan discusses the operational role of the CIA; varies based upon different factors; gives his opinions on the CIA’s intervening roles in the world.
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Retired U.S.A.F. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty pulling weeds, sitting outside with wife reading mail (one letter looks like a wedding invitation). Given his nine years on Joint Chiefs of Staff as a liaison man to CIA, and his service in Vietnam, he believes that CIA originates policy on field judgments. Diplomacy or the military does not initiate actions. CIA has more of a hand in that, furthered by diplomacy or military action. Gives examples and reasoning. Shot of reconnaissance pictures rolling on light table, man holding magnifying device to pictures. VS reconnaissance film/pictures being analyzed. Electronic equipment being calibrated, report being typed. Military official with briefcase walking up stairs, entering Justice Department building. Military personnel organizing cards, computer reading them. Military officials taking notes. VS U.S. military interacting with civilians in different African and Asian countries. Cargo plane taking off. Soldiers repelling from a helicopter. Tanks rolling on dirt roads, fields. Paratroopers jumping from planes over Indonesian countryside. Indonesian crowd, some Americans talking with Indonesians. Tibetan monk praying. VS fighting in Vietnam: U.S. soldiers herding Vietnamese civilians onto plane, interacting with civilians; Vietnamese prisoners (suspected Viet Cong, handcuffed, bags over heads) sitting near helicopter.
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Lyman Kirkpatrick, Professor of Political Science at Brown University and former Inspector General at the CIA, sitting on wheelchair, being pushed by a young Caucasian man; flanked by two white. He believes the CIA’s sole purpose is to gather and evaluate data, but does have a unique position as a covert agency, thus the need to make sure their role in politics and world affairs is scrutinized and held in check by the government instead of letting it run outside its intended parameters. He is asked a question by another Professor of Political Science when it’s okay for the CIA to intervene politically or militarily in another country for the United States’ own interests. He answers very seldom, if ever, gives explanation on what can be done to curtail or prevent these activities from occurring.
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Audio of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon explaining his foreign policy. Young Caucasian soldier smoking a cigarette. Line of soldiers receiving pamphlet, walking with duffel bags under “Welcome 507th Repl Co. This Way Home” sign. Wounded soldiers on stretchers being loaded onto helicopter. Elderly Vietnamese woman, other Vietnamese civilians behind her. U.S. soldier on a field telephone. Two U.S. soldiers arresting Vietnamese man. CH-47 Chinook helicopter landing in field. American soldiers passing camera. U.S. soldiers' boot and helmet placed on top of a rifle. Various shots destroyed or abandoned tanks and planes.
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United States Marines in dress uniform, marching along city street. U.S. Army soldiers placing a bag over the head of a female prisoner in Vietnam (suspected Viet Cong). Army and Marines marching in formation down city street. US Army John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance sign, squad jogging in formation. Marine officer being awarded medal by a fellow officer. VS U.S. soldiers tending to wounded in Vietnam. African American Army sergeant having medal pinned to uniform by white Army officer, shaking hands. More shots of American soldiers in Vietnam: Vietnamese man under gun point; burning a hut; carrying wounded soldiers onto helicopter. Medals on uniform of U.S. Army major. Night shot of antiwar (Vietnam War) protesters silently marching, placing names in a wooden coffin.
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U.S. Navy vessel in a foreign port, soldiers disembarking. Title Card appears, ed credits roll over footage of U.S. soldiers marching in foreign lands.