https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/606d598a-b6a3-4afd-9a58-cc3635c5f4ee Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Reel 1: https://youtu.be/81IqP1Fz1cE Reel 3: https://youtu.be/TcdT7UwWqxo "In The Year of the Pig" is a 1968 documentary by Emile de Antonio and McGraw-Hill Contemporary Films about American involvement in the Vietnam War. It opens with a warning that if the U.S. loses Indochina, it loses the Pacific. 00:38 Senator John Dulles describes Indochina as a domino effect. 00:58 Representatives from Vietnam and the West arrive in Switzerland for the 1954 Geneva Accords. 01:47 North Vietnamese troops march in parade, supportive crowds cheer. 02:24 Senator Everett Dirksen says the US pledges to support the accord. 02:25 President Lyndon Johnson notes that the US has been in Vietnam for 10 years. 02:57 The 1955 Saigon Revolt. Troops invade, civilians run. Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam Prime Minister, appeals to the West. Military personnel from the West meet with Vietnamese reps. Defeated Head of State, Bao Dai speaks to press in Cannes. 03:58 Politician Joseph Buttinger notes that with Vietnamese victory over French at Dien Bein Phu, there’s a chance other forces might compete with Ho Chi Minh. North Vietnamese march on parade. 04:56 South Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem arrives at Washington National Airport, greeted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Dulles. Parades in Washington and New York. Diem speaks to Congress. 07:23 Philippe Devillers notes there’s only one Vietnam. 07:54 Gerald Ford speaks on the US struggle to agree on legitimizing Communist control of Vietnam. 08:38 Sen Wayne Morse claims US used the election to get a puppet government under Diem. 09:18 US Marine Colonel William Corson and Philippe Devillers reflect on the death of Diem and his brother Nhu, Diem’s ruthlessness, and the liberation of South Vietnam. Prisoners are executed and Vietnamese soldiers march through the jungle. Harrison Salisbury insists the front is not a puppet of Hanoi. 11:30 Farmers tend rice paddies as Buttinger, Corson, and David Halberstam describe the power-hungry behavior of Diem and Nhu. Diem and Phu and their wives speak to public adoration. 15:16 Nhu challenges the idea their legislation is a ‘rubber stamp.’ 15:26 Gerald Ford states the economic progress made in Vietnam. 15:53 Buttinger discusses Diem’s mistake appointing unqualified people to power. 17:55 UH-1 helicopters drop off Vietnamese troops, the Battle of Ap Bac. Combat footage. 18:36 President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson speak about the benefits of Johnson’s visit to Vietnam. Johnson in Vietnam greeting crowds of supporters. 19:29 William Corson and David Halberstam talk about American aid to South Vietnam and Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s response. Footage of American politicians and troops, landing in Vietnam with farm and construction equipment. 20:34 Roger Hilsman, David Halberstam, and Nhu recall the Saigon march of 1963, the burning of a Buddhist monk and its political consequence. 23:25 Halberstam talks about the 1963 coup against Diem. Soldiers flood streets, protestors topple statues. 24:20 IFS-1 launches rockets night and day, an A-4 Skyhawk prepares for take off, an F-4 Phantom attacks ground targets, a BARC 3-X Amphibious vehicle surges into the ocean, a B-52s drop bombs. 26:32 Senator Ernest Gruening talks about US support of South Vietnam Photo montage of US officials. 27:06 Nguyen Cao Ky speaks about the need for citizens to support their country. 28:03 Hilsman discusses Kennedy’s wishes for Vietnam. 28:51 Thurston Morton warns of pursuing action in Vietnam. 29:46 Boy Scouts parade at an assembly. Generals Curtis LeMay and Mark Clark advise on the crisis with military wisdom. 34:25 Hilsman and Gruening share perspectives on how the crisis escalates. 35:42 President Johnson speaks about the action South Vietnam asks of the US. 35:47 Arthur Sylvester reports on the August 1964 attack on USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy while Wayne Morse, Robert MacNamara, John White, Hurbert Humphrey, Earle Wheeler, and Everett Dirksen each offer conflicting accounts. 40:02 Richard Nixon notes the benefits of America in Vietnam. 40:20 US troops in Vietnam prepare for a search and destroy mission. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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