Vietnam War - 1965, LBJ Press Conference Excerpts Mixed W/ Footage R3 of 3
Sprocket noise
MCU Secretary of State Dean Rusk- mute
01:03:17 President Johnson, 28Jul65 news conference excerpt: “because we do not seek the destruction of any government, nor do we covet a foot of any territory. But we insist and we will always insist that the people of South Viet-Nam shall have the right of choice, the right to shape their own destiny in free elections in the South or throughout all Viet-Nam under international supervision, and they shall not have any government imposed upon them by force and terror so long as we can prevent it.”
01:04:00 Sprocket noise ENDS. LBJ 28Jul65 news conference excerpt: “We do not want an expanding struggle w/ consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat.
01:04:22 MOS Destroyed US helicopters on airstrip. Cleaning up debris after US embassy bombing; wounded carried on stretchers.
01;05:06 Overhead of Bell UH-1 Army helicopter of fields / paddies; air to air CU sideview; POV of downed UH-1 on side & soldiers out & running away. GOOD
01:05:27 Int. injured men on beds.
01:05:37 Flag draped caskets on trailer past military plane; Navy & Air Force troops at parade rest; at attention & saluting as caskets loaded.
01:06:01 CUs Vietnamese faces; MSs praying.
01:06:17 Arrival montage: Troops lining rail of troop ship, down gangway; unfurling flags at roadside; Marines down cargo nets into landing craft, onto beach.
01:07:10 USAF four-engine plane arrival, men off; trucks w/ soldiers & artillery past. POV from UH-1 past line on grassy field taking off, view past pilot & co-pilot.
01:07:37 Vietnamese soldier on field telephone, w/ other US & Vietnamese surrounding; air to air of fighter jets, CU; High angle / HA bomb explosions in jungle; officers at map marking. Refugees in field; injured into ambulance.
01:08:05 Vietnamese children in orphanage washing & drying hands & faces; eating.
01:08:39 MCU LBJ 28Jul65: “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.”
01:08:50 Montage: CU college kids, young workers.
01:09:11 CU Mao; poster of Ho Chi Minh. CU bow thru water, aerial over aircraft carrier, plane launched.
01:09:29 Air ot air as 2 B-52s drop bombs; explosions in jungle, more dropping & explosions. CU USMC APC past on sand, MS; men off landing craft, thru jungle.
01:10:11 LBJ: (sprocket noise) “by that promise, the people of South Viet-Nam have fought for many long years. Thousands of them have died. Thousands more have been crippled and scarred by war. We just cannot now dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and who trusted us to the terror and repression and murder that would follow. This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Viet-Nam.”
NOTE: Good action footage. Some LBJ SOF brief but okay, other has sprocket noise.
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Vietnam War - 1965, LBJ Press Conference Excerpts Mixed W/ Footage R3 of 3 Sprocket noise MCU Secretary of State Dean Rusk- mute 01:03:17 President Johnson, 28Jul65 news conference excerpt: “because we do not seek the destruction of any government, nor do we covet a foot of any territory. But we insist and we will always insist that the people of South Viet-Nam shall have the right of choice, the right to shape their own destiny in free elections in the South or throughout all Viet-Nam under international supervision, and they shall not have any government imposed upon them by force and terror so long as we can prevent it.” 01:04:00 Sprocket noise ENDS. LBJ 28Jul65 news conference excerpt: “We do not want an expanding struggle w/ consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat. 01:04:22 MOS Destroyed US helicopters on airstrip. Cleaning up debris after US embassy bombing; wounded carried on stretchers. 01;05:06 Overhead of Bell UH-1 Army helicopter of fields / paddies; air to air CU sideview; POV of downed UH-1 on side & soldiers out & running away. GOOD 01:05:27 Int. injured men on beds. 01:05:37 Flag draped caskets on trailer past military plane; Navy & Air Force troops at parade rest; at attention & saluting as caskets loaded. 01:06:01 CUs Vietnamese faces; MSs praying. 01:06:17 Arrival montage: Troops lining rail of troop ship, down gangway; unfurling flags at roadside; Marines down cargo nets into landing craft, onto beach. 01:07:10 USAF four-engine plane arrival, men off; trucks w/ soldiers & artillery past. POV from UH-1 past line on grassy field taking off, view past pilot & co-pilot. 01:07:37 Vietnamese soldier on field telephone, w/ other US & Vietnamese surrounding; air to air of fighter jets, CU; High angle / HA bomb explosions in jungle; officers at map marking. Refugees in field; injured into ambulance. 01:08:05 Vietnamese children in orphanage washing & drying hands & faces; eating. 01:08:39 MCU LBJ 28Jul65: “I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.” 01:08:50 Montage: CU college kids, young workers. 01:09:11 CU Mao; poster of Ho Chi Minh. CU bow thru water, aerial over aircraft carrier, plane launched. 01:09:29 Air ot air as 2 B-52s drop bombs; explosions in jungle, more dropping & explosions. CU USMC APC past on sand, MS; men off landing craft, thru jungle. 01:10:11 LBJ: (sprocket noise) “by that promise, the people of South Viet-Nam have fought for many long years. Thousands of them have died. Thousands more have been crippled and scarred by war. We just cannot now dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and who trusted us to the terror and repression and murder that would follow. This, then, my fellow Americans, is why we are in Viet-Nam.” NOTE: Good action footage. Some LBJ SOF brief but okay, other has sprocket noise.