Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived. The Vietnam war gets even more brutal; domestic distrubances in the United States; flare-up between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland; the Mylai massacre; Humphrey and Nixon camapign political TV ads.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Opening Titile & B&W still of a white girl doing her homework in front of the television.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
MS South Vietnamese camera crew (16mm Mitchell camera with crystal synch sound) filming U.S. Army infantry in Vietnam. MSs weary Caucasian and African-American U.S. infantry soldiers marching past camera in Vietnam.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Cut to Anacin TV commercial about a trucker with a headache pulling into a truckstop.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
TLS suspected Viet Cong (hooded) being hauled from a Marine transport helicopter in field.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Stills of infantry soldiers. Drawings of explosions.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE MS interview of a returning US special forces soldier; he speaks out against the war in Vietnam.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
1967 TLSs nighttime anti-war protest on college campus, protesters sitting down, flashing peace signs. TLS nighttime anti-war protest, police using force to quell protest, one plainclothes officer taking a quick swipe at protester's head with club. MS African-Americans protesting against the racist Vietnam war, marching in city during daytime with protest signs denouncing the war, one stating "We Should Be Fighting Here For Our Liberation." TLS/MSs National Guard repelling racial urban warfare firing on snipers situated in tenement buildings, trying to restore order.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
MS two Marines carrying bloody body of dead Viet Cong guerilla in field. MSs U.S. Marines & ARVN soldiers firing guns from rooftop during Tet Offensive. Panning TLS UH-1 Huey helicopter with Red Cross markings landing in a field, resting infantry soldiers standing by APC turning their heads to watch it. CU bloody leg of Viet Cong man blown off by a rocket lying on ground, cut to MS ARVN officer picking it up, jokingly holding it for the camera before tossing it at them-- really intense footage. MSs Vietnamese women crying, walking along street.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
MS Senator EUGENE MCCARTHY (D-MN) at the stump, speaking out against the war: "How many men must die to justify some 23,000 Americans & hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who died to prove some questionable issue or idea of the past. Mr. Moyers says that the Vice-President has private doubts about the war. There comes a time when the private doubts of a public man must become public doubts." MS/CU college students burning dollar bills in protest of corporate sponsorship of the Vietnam War. TLS/MSs student strike (anti-war protest) at Columbia University, 1968. MSs leftist students protesting Vietnam war in Paris, 1968; large crowds filling streets; peaceful. TLS/MSs Chicago police violently breaking up daytime anti-war protest in Grant Park, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention; CUs battered & bloody protesters being hauled away by police & paramedics. TLS/MSs cops violently subduing anti-war protesters in the streets of Chicago during the 68 DNC, making arrests, throwing yippies into paddy wagons, night.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE CU Vice-President HUBERT H. HUMPHREY in a Presidential TV campaign spot: "We have seen the terrible results of violence in this country. It would be intolerable if a handful of violent people-- and that is what it is, just a handful-- could harden us against needed change. We must give notice to this violent few. There are millions of decent Americans who are willing to sacrifice for change, but they want to do it without being threatened and they want to do it peacefully. They are the non-violent majority, black and white, who are for change without violence. These are the people who voice want to be."
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
Cut to CU of RICHARD M. NIXON in a casual interview: "I don t allow myself to be packaged. There isn't one side of my face better than the other. I never insist on any type of presentation. I'll let them shoot me any way they want."
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Cut to '68 Nixon campaign ad depicting (stills of) violence between anti-war protesters and National Guard, VO by Nixon saying, "We shall have order in the United States"; "This time, vote like your whole world depends on it."
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
TLS/MSs political clash (riot) between Catholics & Protestants & police in desolate streets of Belfast, Ireland, 1969; rioters hurl rocks and Molotov cocktails at police in riot gear; TLS/MSs building burning at night.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
CU US infantry soldier speaking at a press conference regarding Mylai Massacre. MS Lt. WILLIAM CALLEY walking to building from parking lot.