Vietnam Report - 1972 | Movietone Moment | 28 June 2024

On this day in 1972, President Nixon announced that volunteers won't be sent to Vietnam. Here is a British Movietone report showing key war moments.

In recognition of the latest peace talks coincident with the run-up to the American Presidential election..... ® Movietone looks back over Vietnam's past and present, with Peace still in the future.

LV French Governor General arriving in Saigon from boat 1937. SV pan he drives off in car. SV French soldier in action with machine gun. GV French troops firing from positions. 2 shots SV French troops walking through long glass. LV ground to air French paratroops dropping. GV ditto, Dien Bien Phu 1954. LV ditto as they come down to land. GV pan paratroops coming down. SLV troops through woods. CBV French soldier firing rifle. SV French soldiers sitting talking. SV troops walking through undergrowth. SV stretcher carried past camera. SV troops marching. Travel shot along river and under bridge from Viet-Cong boat. SV ditto. Travel shot from boat past North Vietnamese village. SCU Viet-Cong troops. SCU Viet-Cong propelling boat along river. CU pan down jungle vegetation. SCU Communist troops marching through jungle. SV North Vietnamese village, troops being trained. SV interior woman school teacher in class room at night. SCU North Vietnamese children in school pan to jagged hole in desk. SV children doing lessons by candle night. CU young boy asleep on desk with candle burning. LV interior Richard Nixon in Saigon in 1966. SV ditto speaking about war. SCU President Thieu arriving at Paris Airport for Conference 1969. SV pan pressmen and photographers. SCU Thieu. SV Cabot Lodge arrives by car at Paris Peace Conference. LV he walks into conference building. SV sign "Central de Conferences Internationales". SV press and photographers. GV Communist negotiator talking to press as he leaves. SLV interior Dr Henry Kissinger with Alec Douglas Home at Foreign Office.


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