Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
LS's of Soviet Red Army parading through Red Square; MS of JOSEPH STALIN waving to passing soldiers. Violent Communist strikes and riots in Western Europe.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
American-funded French soldiers fighting in Indochina.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
DO NOT USE Still photo of Vietnam soldier.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
LS of a city street, cut to MS's of a woman and her child bringing groceries to their fish-tailed car. LS & MS of a billboard, people standing before it: "Help Lift The Iron Curtain Everywhere. Join the Crusade for Freedom"
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Fireball. Explosion. Four adult male North Korean soldiers walking across smoldering battlefield; fire and smoke rising in BG. July 19, 1950, Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Korea, U.S. President Harry S. Truman speaks at podium: "Korea is a small country, thousands of miles away. But what is happening there is important to every American." Colored political map showing the 38th parallel dividing North and South Korea, with the red color (North Korea), bleeding down into South Korea as the North Koreans invaded; U.S.S.R. and China's borders with North Korea also shown. Truman: "On Sunday, June 25th, Communist forces attacked the Republic of Korea. Free nations must be on their guard more than ever before against this kind of sneak attack."
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
LS's & MS's of WWII planes and freight being readied for war w/ Korea. United Nations Security Council authorizing the sending of troops to N. Korea.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
DO NOT USE Still photo
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
MS of empty USSR seat at the UN. MS's of Army, Marines and Navy soldiers marching in Washington, arms shouldered. MS's & CU's of UN soldiers fighting, advancing in Korea. TLS's of beaten fighters landing on carriers. MS of wounded man being carried. MS's of Korean refugees. TLS's of UN army tanks crossing a river. MS's of supplies arriving in Korea. MS's of UN soldiers marching, inspecting rifles, delegating supplies. UN invades Inchon: tLS's of naval bombast, then MS's of soldiers landing and advancing. MS's of S. Korean vigilantes beating a suspected turncoat on a rural road. MS's of refugees walking.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Color map of UN advance (well past the 38 parallel).
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Men riding on a tank. MS's of Gen. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR in Korea. MS's of Chinese soldiers marching in Korea; MS's of UN soldiers walking down a hill in retreat.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
July, 1953, the signing of the Armistice Agreement.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
DO NOT USE Still photo of returning soldiers.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
MS's of US soldiers & sailors returning home, greeted by their families. Korean War homecoming.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
MS's of wounded French soldiers being loaded into ambulances (the French evacuate Vietnam).
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Austrian WWII POW's returning home from the Soviet Union. Emotional.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
National revolt in Hungary (aka The Ten Day Revolution). Fighting in streets.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
DO NOT USE Still photo, National revolt in Hungary (aka The Ten Day Revolution)
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Suez Canal crisis: MS Egyptian President GAMEL ABDEL NASSAR (Nasser); tLS's battleships sailing, fighters in flight; MS's soldiers wading through water, smoke in the BG; MS's Egyptians celebrating in the streets).
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
MS's & CU's of FIDEL CASTRO and CHE GUEVARA looking over maps.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
DO NOT USE Still of a Chinese soldier marching. still of a dead soldier, his hands bound behind his back.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Communist guerillas fighting Nationalist soldiers in Laos.