[18:02:40.10] Vietnamese are evacuated by US soldiers. Vietnamese move their belongings and animals onto trucks and boats, Operation Cedar Falls.

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1 Project Name: Vietnam War Stories Tape/File # WCNAM A18 NewsReels Transcription Date: Transcriber Name: Keywords: B&W, Black and White, newsreels, President Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, greeting wounded soldiers, coming home. Bob Hope Christmas Show, dancing girls. Operation Cedar Falls, Vietnamese evacuated, M60, Nguyen Ky, USS Repose, Aircat, enemy prisoners released, VC and ARVN truce, soldiers fight, wounded soldiers, Coral Sea returns to US, Sec of Navy Paul Nitze awards MOH, UN Sec Gen U Thant, Vietnamese protesters, Johnson awards MOH, Easter field service, Passover field service, enemy bicycle supply transport, David Snell, protests in New York, protests in San Francisco, Martin Luther King comes to UN, protests in Rome, Ambassadors Bunker in, ambassador Lodge out, protests in London, protest in Madrid, Love-in in Detroit, air drop propaganda, protesters, soldiers take refuge in church, fire on USS Forestal, USS Forestal returns to US, families greet sailors, Cardinal Spellman, Bob Hope, Navy river patrol, Vietnamese election, President Johnson speaks, soldiers celebrate mass, K9 dog training, bulldozer clearing jungle, protesters in Washington DC, Hueys fire rockets, HH-43, 101st Airborne deploys [18:00:12.19] A crowd waits on the tarmac at an airport, MAC plane arrives, President Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson greet soldiers as they come off the plane. Soldiers on stretchers are carried off the plane. Wounded soldiers are loaded on plane. *Johnson walks away* [18:01:30.21] Cam Rahn Bay Christmas Show - Bob Hope, Joey Heatherton dance on stage. Soldiers applaud and watch. Girl in leotard twirls flaming batons. Hope comes out with Miss World. Girls dance. Soldiers applaud. [18:02:40.10] Vietnamese are evacuated by US soldiers. Vietnamese move their belongings and animals onto trucks and boats, Operation Cedar Falls. [18:03:27.24] Soldiers fire M60 from foxhole, soldier drips oil on hot M60, soldiers move through the bush, soldier wades through water, squad blows up hut [18:04:34.10] Tan Son Nhut, airman air traffic control truck talks on radio, air traffic control truck, Huey's fly. [18:05:04.27] Australians protest Nguyễn Cao Kỳ arrival [18:05:34.04]

2 Australian PM Holt and Ky ride a boat in Sydney harbor [18:05:54.13] Enemy prisoners lined up, weapons on display, prisoners blindfolded [18:06:33.19] Helicopter lands on hospital ship - USS Repose, medics care for Vietnamese children [18:07:20.16] Aircat/Airboat - river boat glides on water [18:07:58.06] Soldiers round up Vietnamese and enemy, old Vietnamese eat C-rations, medics care for soldier [18:08:31.27] ARVN soldiers walk through bush and rice paddies [18:09:30.14] Enemy prisoners are released and walk across bridge at DMZ [18:10:06.14] Firefighters clean up shelled house in Saigon [18:10:27.08] VC soldiers meet ARVN soldiers during truce period, Vietnamese soldiers smoke together and drink [18:11:08.05] Soldiers fight and take casualties, helicopter fires rockets, *soldier feeds wounded soldier*, soldiers help wounded walk [18:12:45.24] Operation Pershing - shell explodes, soldiers enter village, Vietnamese evacuate village, soldiers burn village, child cries [18:13:48.01] Soldier carries woman to field hospital, soldier carries child to medical tent [18:13:56.19] Aircraft carrier Coral Sea arrives in US, relatives wait and welcome veterans home, sailors kiss girls and moms [18:14:50.22] Cargo planes on tarmac, damaged buildings, Vietnamese put out fires, women cry over bodies

3 [18:15:54.10] Sec of Navy Nitze awards MOH to marine [18:16:25.07] Vietnamese with torches march [18:16:59.03] UN Sec U Thant meets Buddhist monks in Burma [18:17:24.27] Tank rolls over burm, soldier lay down log, tank rolls through water, helicopter lands, soldier march [18:18:18.18] Vietnamese protest in Danang [18:18:51.17] Soldiers march and run through bush, soldiers take fire, wounded soldier holds weapon, Huey flies off [18:19:44.01] Pres Johnson awards MOH at White House, Johnson talks [18:20:08.22] Soldiers run on beach and in bush, Huey fires rocket, Huey lands, shot up Huey, [18:21:04.05] Johnson landsin Guam, shakes hands with Lodge and Bunker, Nguyen Ky, Macnamara [18:21:49.25] Enemy load supplies on bicycles, transport supplies with bicycles [18:22:31.24] Chaplin holds service for Easter, Jewish service for passover, soldiers read bible [18:23:19.16] Nguyen Ky and wife visit orphanage and meet babies [18:23:59.21] Blown up trucks, soldiers cross river and paddies, enemy soldiers lined up, women walk through paddies, [18:25:16.12] Hut burns, Vietnames evacuate, dead enemy, soldier round up enemy, reporter David Snell wounded, bridge linking north and south

4 [18:26:34.10] Antiwar protesters demonstrate in New York City, cute girl with sign, demonstrators burn draft cards, demonstrators argue [18:27:35.08] Martin Luther King comes to UN, police drag off protester [18:28:02.15] Demonstrators protest in San Francisco, demonstration in statium [18:28:34.28] Demonstration in Rome, protesters hit with fire hose [18:29:22.11] Vietnamese evacuated by truck, child holds chicken, baby carries water can, trucks roll away [18:30:11.21] Ambassador Bunker comes off plane in Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge leaves on plane [18:30:46.20] Muhammad Ali give press conference upon being stripped of his title [18:31:17.20] Protesters in London fight with police [18:31:48.25] Protest in Madrid, Spain, American flag burns [18:32:20.12] Love in in Detroit, slogans on cars, hippies hold hands and dance around, kids dance [18:33:06.10] Jets fire rockets and bomb north near China [18:33:45.13] Soldier carries girl, soldiers aid wounded Vietnamese civilians [18:34:11.28] Howitzer fires, mortar fires, soldiers fight, soldiers smoke in foxhole [18:35:00.06] Bombs explode, planes drop bombs [18:35:36.15]

5 Plane flies over Vietnam, planes drop propaganda into North Vietnam [18:36:03.20] Parade to support war in Vietnam, protesters fight, veterans march with American flags, people wave American flags [18:37:05.01] Building on airbase damaged [18:37:33.04] Explosions on hills, soldier takes prisoner, dead enemy [18:38:23.17] Soldiers approach church, soldiers carry wounded, *medics care for wounded*, planes bomb church, soldier smokes, soldiers carry off dead and wounded to helicopter [18:40:10.09] Air strikes, soldiers on the road, train wreck, wounded child and woman, medics treat Vietnamese [18:41:38.08] Women and children evacuate village with soldiers, tent city [18:42:23.26] Air strike on bridge,*rockets* [18:42:56.08] Soldiers arm Huey, Huey fires on target with machine guns and rockets, Huey flies over target [18:43:48.16] Da Nang Air Base burns after attack, craters in ground, damaged buildings, air craft damaged [18:45:09.29] Port Saigon, unloading cargo from ship, street sellers, black market [18:45:42.22] Fire on the USS Forestal, firefighters combat the fire [18:46:39.24] Air strikes [18:47:15.16] Soldiers in grass, Hueys fly overhead, Soldiers fight and take prisioners, dead enemies, captured weapons

6 [18:48:19.11] Shell oil depot damage [18:48:56.17] Cardinal Spellman celebrates mass in Vietnam [18:49:31.00] Bob Hope in Vietnam on stage, Joey Heatherton dances [18:50:12.12] Air strikes on rail and bridge over Hai Phong [18:50:57.12] Air strikes over north vietnam [18:51:32.09] Soldiers in the bush, soldiers fight, medics treat wounded [18:52:09.25] Soldier watches air strikes [18:52:36.14] Soldiers fight and sweep area and find tunnel [18:53:01.03] Navy river boats patrol, huts along river [18:53:33.28] Saigon streets, MPs search Vietnamese [18:54:08.14] Vietnamese vote, election observers New Jersey Governor Hughes and Whitney Young of Urban League, Thieu and Ky vote [18:55:24.08] Air strike over rivers, howitzers fire, Hueys fly, soldiers dismount Huey and run into jungle, soldiers walk through jungle [18:56:39.05] USS Forestal arrives in Florida after fire, *families greet sailors*, damage to the ship [18:58:00.06] Soldiers walk through a village, medic treats a child, child cries, soldiers swim in river, Vietnamese wash clothes

7 [18:58:52.26] Con Thien - soldiers dig fox holes, soldiers eat in the field, soldiers take cover from shells, soldiers carry off wounded, soldiers fire howitzers [18:59:48.08] Air strike on bridge, plane flies off, air strikes [19:00:20.09] President Johnson speaks about negotiation with Ho Chi Mihn [19:01:20.01] Chaplain celebrates mass with soldiers in the field, gives communion [19:01:46.11] *Soldiers wash boots in river* [19:01:59.18] K9 dog runs obstacle course, dog attacks soldier in pads [19:02:53.01] Jungle cleared by bulldozer - rome plow, trees knocked down [19:03:56.11] Protesters on DC mall, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, demonstrators march on Potomic bridge, police fight with demontrators, protestors camp out [19:05:29.18] Japanese PM Sato visits Vietnam, S Vietnamese PM Ky [19:05:55.28] Hueys fire rockets, soldiers jump out of Hueys, soldiers fight [19:07:25.15] White House, President Johnson presents MOH [19:07:53.28] Navy river boat crew inspects sampan [19:08:25.19] Thieu sworn in as RVN President. [19:09:03.19] Bombs explode on the ground, damaged buildings, dead enemies [19:10:09.06] Helicopter HH-43 performs river rescue of wounded from river boat

8 [19:10:57.03] Á-37 jet bomber bombs ground [19:11:25.15] Dak To from the air, damaged from mortar attack, howitzer fires [19:12:14.13] President Johnson awards MOH [19:12:32.28] Hill 875 near Dak To, air strike, soldiers move through brush [19:13:11.13] Dak To, barren hill with soldiers in fox holes, helicopter re-supplies, munitions on display, howitzers fire, mortar fires [19:13:59.05] General shakes hands with soldiers, 101st Airborne deploys from Kentucky, troops exit airplane [19:14:55.09] Planes fly, airborne refueling [19:15:25.26] Soldiers in Vietnamese village, old man, refugees