Homefront 1967
Homefront 1967
Caucasian boy playing a war game by himself. He carries a stick for a gun and uses the terrain (trees, bushes) to move through, hide, shoot. Title card appears over image of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home.
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Scenery, people walking to look out over hills and Charlottesville, Virginia, below.
Homefront 1967
Caucasian and African American pedestrians on sidewalk, business district of Charlottesville, VA. Radio station owner Don Hiney (?) walking, into Daily Progress building. Gilbert Hale writing an editorial on a typewriter. Various shots of city of Charlottesville. Two older men walking and talking, juxtaposed with two young Caucasian teens talking.
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Lane High School in Charlottesville, VA. Mr. Spidell (teacher) addressing boys and girls in his civics class. Caucasian girl gives a summation of hippies in San Francisco as she has read about them in a news article. Another student, Scott, turns the attention to Vietnam via what he has read and brought in to discuss via news articles. Teacher asks for reactions and one white male student says he is sick of hearing about Vietnam and would rather just obliterate all of Southeast Asia and China.
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View through industrial magnifying glass while white female employee works on electronic device. Two male Caucasian workers sit opposite her, also working on electronic equipment. VS other parts of factory, machinery being tested, people working. One worker, Ray Marshall, Vietnam veteran, gives his thoughts on Vietnam War and the value of freedom and fighting for it here and abroad. Another worker and Vietnam veteran does not know why the war is going on, but he was drafted and went over there because he looked it like a job that needed to be done (duty). A door opens to a pair of young workers (one Caucasian and one African American), Henry Cooper and Gary Hicks, in white coats working on a piece of machinery. They both believe in the war’s necessity to stop the spread of Communism.
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Group of Army Reservists (African American and Caucasian) in room, cleaning rifles. Private Glass (white male) states the United States is in Vietnam to help the nation defend itself and enable the nation to fend for itself one day. He served in the ROTC while in college and wanted to go into the life insurance business, which precluded him from joining the regular army, so he joined the Reserves. An African American Reservist believes that if the U.S. were to leave Vietnam now, Communism would likely spread; it is better to fight Communists in Vietnam than wait and fight them at home. Another member of the group (Caucasian) joined the Reserves as way to fulfill obligations without leaving his civilian job and leave his hometown.
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United States Army reservists in drill formation, early morning at Frank D. Peregory Army Reserve Center.
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Virginia National Bank, Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting to hear an address by William C. Battle, former United States ambassador to Australia. Battle speaks from end of long table, Caucasian men seated on both sides, listening. A chamber member speaks to the others about possibility of “adopting” a unit in Vietnam whereby they may correspond and see what help can be provided.
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War veterans (vets) gathering at the Charlottesville American Legion and discussing the Vietnam War.
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Mrs. Jordan putting food in refrigerator, kitchen, turns on radio. She and parents like her (middle/upper class and educated) gather in living room; one man brings up story about local resident who was active in school, respected, with a bright future, and was killed in Vietnam. Caucasian woman discusses her concerns about the war with group.
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University of Virginia campus. Professor Charles Baldwin, former U.S. ambassador to Malaysia, walking along campus. Army and Navy servicemen in uniform walking on campus.
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Caucasian male and female college students dancing at a Zeta Si fraternity house party. Different ROTC members give their views on Vietnam and their awareness of those who have gone before them and were killed in action. They will go if called, but are not comfortable with the war. Two male college students, representing a non-conformist version of students on campus who are detached from opinions or feelings on the war, talking and walking along a hedgerow before parting ways.
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Bob Kellogg and Doug Day talking. Day on his unwillingness to speak about Vietnam at the beginning of the conflict, but now that he is more informed he would be willing to speak on the subject and his position on it, though he is still unsure what setting that discussion would take place.
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Students gathered in auditorium to hear Kenneth Ross and other teachers discuss Vietnam (organized by the Southern Student Organizing Committee). Professor Ross and student have cordial and sometimes humorous argument about Vietnam and Communism.
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David Nolan, leader of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, giving his views on the student body’s reaction to Vietnam War-- usually they go along with policy until their number comes up, then they seek help with getting out of the draft.
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Auditorium, students seated and listening to professor speaking about Vietnam War; student takes notes, others listening.
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Laundry drying on clothesline, cars parked in BG; zoom out to poor neighborhood in Charlottesville, VA. Sign: “Welcome to Hope House." African American civil rights leader Archie Williams stands on porch, states that wars like Vietnam serve no purpose to those who live in poverty; war requires large sums of money being spent overseas when that same money could be used in programs to help impoverished communities. GV poorer neighborhood of Charlottesville as two African American boys walk along a dirt path.
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Interview with Jay Worrell (?) who is in charge of the poverty program in Charlottesville, VA. Discusses the status of his sons as conscientious objectors to the war (Quaker beliefs) and how they have been able to serve in different capacities. He supports his sons and respects those objecting to the war, though he himself did serve in the armed forces (enlisted, WWII) after his heard about the plight of Jewish people in Europe. He wonders what his sons would do if the situation was the same.
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Economically poor neighborhood, mailboxes clustered together. Graduate students Richard Mueller and Bill Leary discuss Vietnam, a war they hope to avoid.
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Christian worship buildings (churches) in Charlottesville, Virginia. Four religious ministers (two Presbyterian, one Episcopalian, and one Baptist) sit down and give their moral views and reasoning on the Vietnam War, discuss what their congregation feels about the war and where they may stand.
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Volkswagen automobile parked on residential driveway; station wagon pulls up; Caucasian woman, Mrs. Jones, gets out, walks to mailbox, enters house through front door. Her son, David Jones, crouches by fireplace, lights a match and starts fire. David and his mother sit by the fire in their armchairs. Mrs. Jones and David discuss the events that led her eldest son, Tony (killed in action, KIA in Vietnam), what he found there, and how each of their views on the war has changed after Tony’s death.
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Young Caucasian man (Grover Harris) walking with suitcase to entrance of Trailways bus terminal. Gets his ticket punched and sits down, reads magazine, waits for his bus to the induction center.
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Charlottesville business district. City of Charlottesville from the hills where Monticello (home of Thomas Jefferson) sits.
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Title card and credits