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(Vietnam Footage/1969 Events) - (Anti-Vietnam War Protests) - (US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview) (Vietnam Footage/1969 Events) - (Anti-Vietnam War Protests) - (US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview)
Call Number: C 10 062Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Vietnam Footage/1969 Events: Historical footage of 1960s and 70s. First half focuses on Vietnam war, including: two visually identical segments of raw footage of evacuation of Vietnam, one with narration, one without; looting of the US Embassy in Saigon; interview with Vietnamese soldier; news cover with footage of surrender of Saigon and South Vietnam, under General/Acting President of South Vietnam Duong Van Minh, to North Vietnam on April 30, 1975; Saigon after Vietnam War officially ended; Vietnamese people pulling down South Vietnamese Army monument in front of National Assembly building. Second half of footage compiled and produced by Uptin. Barely audible narration of 1969 events, including: inauguration of Nixon; US protest of Vietnam war; footage last remaining US troops in Vietnam; international protests against US in Vietnam; footage of police brutality; Nigerian hunger: Palestinian guerilla training and base in Southern Lebanon; Northern Ireland; death of Eisenhower; death of Ho Chi Minh; footage of “Chappaquiddick Incident,” (death of Mary Jo Kopechne in car of Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy); election of Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes, first African-American mayor of large US city; integration of Mississippi school districts; Union Oil Co. platform—massive oil and natural gas leakage into Santa Barbara channel; Hurricane Camille in Mississippi; introduction of Boeing 747; controversy about musical “Hair"; marijuana coming into US from Mexico; Woodstock, 1969; US Moon landing with Neil Armstrong audio, “That's one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind." Anti-Vietnam War Protests: Raw footage of US anti-Vietnam war efforts, including: “Greenwich Village Townhouse Bombing” in which three members of Weathermen (later called Weather Underground) killed constructing dynamite bomb that accidentally went off; interview with Dustin Hoffman (no sound) a townhouse neighbor; Weather bombing of government building; Students for a Democratic Society-Worker-Student Alliance(SDS-WSA) sit-in at Doral Hotel in Miami in 1972 protesting Democratic presidential candidate, George McGovern, for retreat from his stances against Vietnam War; Maxim’s bombing; short segment of Linda Evans at press conference on her detention in customs coming back to US from North Vietnam; unknown SDS representative speaks about past, present, and future efforts of organization; antiwar protest chanting “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! The NLF is going to win!”; charges brought against members of Weather Underground; Jonathan Lerner of SDS gives speech about US imperialist war. US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview: Various footage of late 1960s and 70s, including:murder of John Huggins and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter, Black Panther Party (BPP) members, at UCLA; news report and footage of arrests of BPP members in New Orleans; Nixon delivering “thugs and hoodlums” speech at 1970 Republican Convention; LA District Attorney criticizing militant protesters; Mayher; students reading newspaper on Kent State shootings; Free Bobby Seale and antiwar protest; burning of US flags at protest with one protester saying flag burning not representative of protest as a whole; Charles Brennan, FBI Internal Security chief, questioned by Frank Church during the Church Committee hearings. In Spanish, a short interview with Che Guevara.