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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220303-12
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1938-1960s
Country: Germany,USA,Vietnam
Location:
TC Begins: 05:00:13
TC Ends: 05:11:23
Duration: 00:11:10
Pt 1 of 3 President Johnson / LBJ at microphone talking about a letter from a woman in the Mid West asking Why Vietnam ? Montage Vietnam war shots. 05:01:17 Munich 1938 - Hitler in open top car - Chamberlain arrives - Munich pact - Chamberlain speaking re Peace. Montage shots - bomb damaged buildings - Mussolini - Ethiopia - Haile Selassie at League of Nations - Anschluss - Korean war. 05:03:16 Johnson speaking re reasons for War and fight for freedom 05:04:28 Background to US involvement in Vietnam. Dien Bien Phu, French Indo China. Battle scenes and dropping supplies. 1954 Hanoi refugees - French leave Hanoi as communist forces move in. Geneva conference which divides Vietnam into North and South. Refugees fleeing South. US support to South Vietnam. 05:06:45 Map 1954 17th Parallel - mountain shots. North Vietnam, Ho Chi-Minh w/ children. South Vietnam farming & agriculture - building homes - elections. US economic aid - tools and grain. Gathering in harvest in the South following land reforms. Scenic shots - junks - coastline 05:08:46 Manilla 1955 signing of South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty. South Vietnam - shots of house building - narration tells of subversive activities from Communist North. Terrorist activities - NV guerrilla warfare - burning buildings - dead bodies. 05:10:08 South Vietnam - spraying rice fields - rice processed. Open cast mining. Rubber plantation - latex processing. Textile factory. Vietnam War; Propaganda;