Vietnam: A Television History; Why Vietnam? [Part 3 of 3]

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Series
Vietnam: A Television History
Raw Footage
Why Vietnam? [Part 3 of 3]
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/15-gx44q7qw7s
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Description
Description
This film explores U.S. policy toward Vietnam, focusing on how the U.S. commitment expanded from providing supplies to military advisors, and ultimately combat forces in response to the growing challenge of the communists. Scenes show the bombing of the U.S. Embassy and barracks building in South Vietnam, scenes of U.S. soldiers and Marines in combat, and footage of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong. Other personalities shown are Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Date
1965-00-00
Asset type
Raw Footage
Subjects
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994; McNamara, Robert S. (Robert Strange), 1916-; National liberation movements; Nationalism and communism; strategy; Vietnam (Asia) nation; Ho, Chi Minh, 1890-1969; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Rights
Rights Note:,Rights:Public Domain,Rights Credit:NARA,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:NARA
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:00:00
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Credits
Distributor: NARA
Narrator2: Arness, James
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: 71ef9293cb48e8a7f6bef506b7160abe7bb592f4 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: B&W
Duration: 00:00:00
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Citations
Chicago: “Vietnam: A Television History; Why Vietnam? [Part 3 of 3],” 1965-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 5, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-gx44q7qw7s.
MLA: “Vietnam: A Television History; Why Vietnam? [Part 3 of 3].” 1965-00-00. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 5, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-gx44q7qw7s>.
APA: Vietnam: A Television History; Why Vietnam? [Part 3 of 3]. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-gx44q7qw7s