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War Bogs Down In Korea With Torrential Rains
Dull, faded in imagery and contrast, Video problem near end of shot Korean mud slows up the war as torrential rains transforms the fighting terrain into quagmire. Engineers fight to keep the roads open. Soldiers dig trenches. MCUS - Behind - Two military walking up a muddy trail with rifles on their back MCUS - UN military in a ditch covered with mud CUS - A soldiers foot sinking into the mud MLS - A truck with UN military stopped a washed out road, it looks like a little waterfall
Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered - Show 118C1 - "Iraq War & Cultural Divide"
David Horowitz, editor of Front Page Magazine, thinks the war in Iraq, not cultural differences, is what troubles President George W. Bush and has created a political divide in the United States. He blames former Vice President Al Gore and former President Jimmy Carter for denouncing President Bush when he went to the United Nations in the lead-up to the Iraq war, thus making the war a political partisan issue. Host Tucker Carlson thinks the Democrats rolled over, gave little resistance to the President in the lead-up. Richard Cohen of the Washington Post agrees, notes that only within the last three weeks has there been significant criticism from the Democrats on the war. Horowitz says the Dems have attacked the President as a liar, a fraud, someone who has betrayed the country. Cohen says other conflicts (including the Korean War) have had the non-governing party criticize the sitting party and President. The criticism is warranted here because the reasons for going to war have proven to be spurious. Horowitz, referencing the Vietnam War, maintains that criticism from the minority party only occurs when the war is lost or nearing its end. Cohen fires back that the leadership of the Democratic Party has not called for an end to the war, and have only criticized the way the war has been carried out.
War in Korea, USAF
Medium shots of Korean men moving large wooden crates. LS of empty damaged building, pan right to rubble on ground. Various shots of Koreans working on moving logs, rocks and dirt. LS of plane landing on runway. LS of military planes flying over clouds. Various shots of planes on ground, men working on repairs. Various aerial shots over rural Korea. Various shots of military planes firing in air, driving down runway. Various shots from inside cockpit of military plane.
President Reagan Press Conference - "War in the Press"
Journalist Sam Donaldson of ABC News questions U.S. President Ronald Reagan on comments made by Secretary of State George Shultz, that the press has become more negative towards U.S. Government Military actions in the post-World War II era, often trying to “screw things up.” Donaldson asks President Reagan if he shares the Secretaries views. Reagan says he does believe the press has become more critical starting in the Korean War, and more in the Vietnam War; to the point where it seemed that the press was more critical of our own forces, than the enemy. Reagan says he wishes that the press would focus more on the issue of our national security and what is endangering our forces. Donaldson questions Reagan on Secretary Shultz use of the word “us”; asking if “us” refers to any administration (Nixon, Carter, Reagan, etc.). Reagan believes the term “us” refers to “our side”, the U.S. Military and people. White House reporters take notes.
Bomb Damage, Refugees Following Communist Invasion of S. Korea
Same as catalog #500282 LS large fires burning on hillside in South Korea, night. TLS building w/ tile roof burning in city, day; MS smoke wafting about remnants of chimney; MS flames searing high behind structural damage, smoke drifting across frame. Panning MS short-cropped, weary South Korean man wearing dirty white shirt, carrying pail of water past cam. Panning MS another Korean man tossing bucket of water onto balcony. TLS Korean man tossing pan of water onto smoldering rubble. TLS Korean men filling pans with water on street. MS young Korean woman w/ sleeping child strapped to back/waist weeping while placing folding cloth & placing it into cabinet on street. MS filthy, barefoot Korean girl sitting on dirt road cluttered with debris, crying, weeping. MS Korean boy with dirty face crying with his arms outstretched on street lined with detritus; mother with child strapped to back/waist enters frame to console boy. TLS Korean War refugees walking along path in field. Panning MS boy refugee with wood-frame backpack walking by cam. MS refugees filing past cam, some women balancing large burdens on heads, others carrying belongings strapped to backs; burdened cow, too. VO: "It was only four short weeks later, without warning or provocation, that the Communists poured across the 38th Parallel. The sudden shock of attacks stunned the people of South Korea. Bewildered families lost their homes. This country, unprepared for war, with only a small ill-equipped army & a handful of American military observers, the Red Horde met little opposition."
U.S. Army Infantry Above 38th Parallel for Third Time
TLS Korean villagers (men, women & children) walking along muddy road, smiling and carrying flags of South Korea while U.S. Army soldiers trudge wearily toward them. MS young Korean man wearing white dress shirt and khaki pants while smiling and shaking hands with passing U.S. infantry soldiers on muddy road. MS two older Korean men smiling, bowing reverently upon passing U.S. soldiers. MS older Korean woman crying, bowing, waving white handkerchief while standing on side of road. MS Korean woman weeping into hankie, young son hanging on her back and peering sadly into camera; woman raises head, peers momentarily into camera. VO: "After the tanks and trucks come the infantry. Villagers greet U.N. forces who are back above the parallel for the third time. The face of war has not changed."
Bomb Damage, Refugees Following Communist Invasion of S. Korea
Master 1490 - Tape 2 LS large fires burning on hillside in South Korea, night. TLS building w/ tile roof burning in city, day; MS smoke wafting about remnants of chimney; MS flames searing high behind structural damage, smoke drifting across frame. Panning MS short-cropped, weary South Korean man wearing dirty white shirt, carrying pail of water past cam. Panning MS another Korean man tossing bucket of water onto balcony. TLS Korean man tossing pan of water onto smoldering rubble. TLS Korean men filling pans with water on street. MS young Korean woman w/ sleeping child strapped to back/waist weeping while placing folding cloth & placing it into cabinet on street. MS filthy, barefoot Korean girl sitting on dirt road cluttered with debris, crying, weeping. MS Korean boy with dirty face crying with his arms outstretched on street lined with detritus; mother with child strapped to back/waist enters frame to console boy. TLS Korean War refugees walking along path in field. Panning MS boy refugee with wood-frame backpack walking by cam. MS refugees filing past cam, some women balancing large burdens on heads, others carrying belongings strapped to backs; burdened cow, too. Diss to historical reenactment TLS refugees walking through "village" (studio set). This story regards the crossing of the 38th Parallel and subsequent invasion of South Korea by Red Chinese and North Korean forces.
Atom War? Truman Hints Use Of A-bomb
Atom War? Truman Hints Use Of A-bomb Fears that World War III may be near grip the world, as Red Chinese hordes threaten to engulf U.N. Forces fighting in Korea. In Washington, President Harry S. Truman calls a press conference and announces that the US is considering the use of its prime weapon, the Atom Bomb, in the Korean crisis. At the united nations, historic meeting hears Red China branded MLS White House. CU Politicians walking into the White House, Photographers taking pictures, flashbulbs and all. MLS President Truman standing at the podium getting ready to speak; President Truman Speaks: "The forces of the United Nations are in Korea to put down an aggression that threatens not only the whole fabric of the United Nations but all human hopes for peace and justice. If the United Nations yields to forces of aggression no nation will be safe or secure. If aggression is successful in Korea we can expect it to spread throughout Asia, Europe and to this hemisphere. We are fighting in Korea for our own national security and survival. We have committed ourselves to the cause of a just and peaceful world order through the United Nations. We stand by that commitment." On the battlefront of Korea: Forces for a definite stand against appeasement and further encroachment of communism. America spearheads the United Nations "police action:", a grid for a long fight increases. Allied foces In South Korea fight desparate to hold off Communist advances. Casualities begin to mount. MCU An army vehicle burning. Plane dropping bombs in a wooded area. Soldier running to get back in his fox hole. Soldiers face as he looks out the small window of a tank. MLS Soldiers sitting on top of a army tank as it moves along. CU Soldier face as he's driving the tank. MLS Soldiers in the battlefield firing their weapons at the enemy. MLS The United Nations. MCU Chinese delegates sit and listen to the charges of aggression by Korean Representative Of The Republic Of Korea Ben C Lyn. As Mr Lyn speaks the representatives from Red China refuse to take their seats. Ben C Lyn charges of aggression: "I point my finger at these representatives of the Chinese communist regime and I ask, "Why do they come here with un-clean hands? Why do they come here with their hands dripping with blood? Blood of the United Nations, the blood of the Korean people?" Close up shot of Soviet Representative on The United Nations Security Council, Jacob A Malik MCU United States Chief Delegate, Warren Austin took up the debate and further accused the Chinese of Red of aggression. Chief Delegate - Warren Austin speaks: "It is no exaggeration to say that that problem is the greatest one now confronting the world. That problem is this. Will there be peace or war? In the far east. The world awaits anxiously the answer to this question."
Communists Near Seoul
Panning high angle LSs Republic of Korea (RoK, South Korea) Army soldiers marching through snowy farming valley, passing village huts. H/a LS smoke rising from valley. TLS Communist prisoners of war (POWs) including Red Chinese and Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers, being marched outside building by South Korean captors -- note that all wear padded pants and jackets emblematic of cold, frigid winter climate; CU Chinese POW wearing padded jacket, fur-lined padded cap with ear flaps; CU North Korean nurse (POW) bowing her head; CU KPA soldier POW. LS RoK Army soldier drilling irregular army soldiers in bombed-out city, several children standing behind brick wall in FG and watching the exercise. VO: "From Korea, South Korean patrols probe enemy defenses at the Injin River north of Seoul. This was the lull before the communists struck and broke through here on their way to capture the capital. Artillery and mines could not stop the Chinese Red horde. A few prisoners are captured, members of advanced units. Among them, a Chinese soldier, a North Korean nurse, and a North Korean soldier. Just before Seoul fell, raw recruits were drilled, men drafted from the stream of refugees heading south."
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
MS's of US soldiers & sailors returning home, greeted by their families. Korean War homecoming.
War Correspondents Depart for Korea
Adult Caucasian male reporters carry bags and gear up ramp to ship. Caucasian adult male war correspondents standing on deck; one lights cigarette. Several bags, cases and equipment. Adult Caucasian male U.S. soldiers wave from ship. Adult male military band play at departure. Caucasian adult male U.S. Navy sailors haul rope, transport leaves port.
Biography: Harry S. Truman
Korean War) Bomb exploding. MSs soldiers running.
Biography: George Marshall
George Marshall arriving in Korea (Korean War).
Flash Points USA - America at War - Colleen Shogun
Flash Points USA - America at War - Colleen Shogun (speaking about various Presidents) 04.20.24 Colleen Shogun says President Johnson's "legacy is complicated by Vietnam, it's so complicated he can't bare to run again. Once again, we elect someone to the Presidency who promises to end our involvement in Vietnam, just like Eisenhower promised to end out involvement in Korea. Which is interesting to me because it seems if John Kerry was attentive to History he would promise to end the involvement in Iraq, because it's been successful in at least two other elections in recent history, it seems to be a preferable position to the American people when we are involved in an unpopular war." 04.21.24 Colleen Shogun states that President Truman was willing to act independently, he defies the Taft-Hartley Act, seizes the steel mills, institutes committees on civil rights, he's willing to step out of Congress' shadow and act independently. She continues to say that "the Presidency is an institution that rewards independence." ......"There may be an active independence that instigates warfare, that instigates a foreign conflict, the question is can those continued acts of independence actually control what is going on..." She says that "we don't have a stable structure for ending a war and we see this as problematic, both in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and perhaps even now in the Iraq War. Who gets to end an unpopular war?" 04.25.18 Speaking about President John F. Kennedy, she states that his legacy doesn't reflect the Vietnam War, that "if you asked most Americans when the Vietnam War started, they would certainly think of LBJ and not John Kennedy." She talks about President's Lyndon Johnson s withdrawal from the Democratic Nomination. 04.27.56 Colleen Shogun speaks about FDR, that he has a double pronged legacy, because he creates the welfare state in America, creates the New Deal, also encapsulated in the war (WWII). She continues to say "there is a trace of Lincoln in FDR" because of his passive side, the lend lease program, his aid to Britain etc.. before Pearl Harbor. 04.29.38 "We know that President's benefit from a "rallying around the flag" effect, but it's not clear that that "rallying around the flag" effect lasts .....
Biography: George Marshall
(Korean War) Troops in Korea. General Douglas Macarthur in Korea.
Korea and the Knight's Glove
Master 1791 - Tape 1 FI Map of Western Asia, specifically Korea, Japan and Western China; a knight's glove (heavy armor) smashes Korea, then is removed to reveal the Communist Hammer and Sickle emblem over Korean peninsula. Cold War.
Biography: Harry S. Truman
Korean War. Fighting scenes, soldiers with rifles and tanks rolling through.
UN Special on Red China. Interview of Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretarty of State for Far Easter Affairs.
Robert MacNeil. Would you go as far to say that the Korean War or the Vietnam War would be greatly different if they had happened, had we recognized Red China much earlier? Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Easter Affairs. Well I think here again, this no time to go deeply into the history. Up to the Korean War we had not committed ourselves in this way. It was the Korean War that got us into this in a sense. Now it s lost now to history but Truman put the seventh fleet between Formosa and the mainland as much to keep Chungai Sur from mudding the waters as he did to keep the Chinese from taking Formosa. But we got into this thing because of the Korean War and because of Joe McCarthyism. Once into it, it was just awfully hard to shake, partly because China is a long way away. It s not immediate. It there s a terrible lag here. I think it s hurt us. I think that sometime there, I think Mr. Dulles set us back a lot by his moralistic approach to these things. His militant anti-communism. I think that if some time after the Korean War and before 1965, if we d been successful in 1961 in reconciling things, we might have avoided the Vietnam War. I don t think we could have avoided the Korean War because of this.
Behind the Scenes of Communist North Korea
Master 1848 - Tape 1 Tilting LS oil pipeline snaking through mountainous, snowy countryside in communist North Korea. High angle LS turbines inside hydroelectric plant. LSs dim, shadowy, steamy steel mill and foundry; MS North Korean man working on line in mill; TLS man welding on plant floor. LS higher educational building; TLS two male North Korean university students working at desk in room, paintings of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and North Korea leader Kim Il-Song in background. MS two Korean men working at desk, writing into ledger books; CU pen to paper, writing in Korean. CU first page of Stalin biography (Russian text). TLS/MSs political parade, Koreans marching with banners, carrying pictures of Kim Il-Song. MS North Korean mean standing in line outside polling place. Rear view TLS Korean man placing ballot into ballot box, old flag of Korea on wall in BG. TLSs Korean men using archaic technique to measure out farm land. VO: "War is carried north of the 38th Parallel. These scenes give a quick idea of North Korea... They show heavy industry there, as opposed to agricultural South Korea. Even locomotives are manufactured in the north. Culture is completely under Soviet influence. For example, one of the first projects undertaken at this university after the country's liberation from Japan in 1945 was the translation of Joseph Stalin's biography. Elections, loosely speaking. There is campaigning, but only one party. There is voting, but only one slate of candidates. The people cast either yes or no ballots. Distribution of land makes good propaganda. But as in all communist countries, it ends up state-controlled farms..."
U.S. Army Soldiers Fire Bazooka / KPA POW Receives Medical Attention
Master 1783 - Tape 1 Sideview MS two U.S. Army soldiers firing long round bazooka (shoulder-fired rocket launcher) on battlefield. VO: "... continues hacking away at the Iron Triangle." (43-18) Excellent TLS/MSs white female American nurse delivering injection shot to exposed right arm of wounded North Korean (KPA) Army soldier laying in hospital bed. VO: "In a hospital in Tokyo, North Korean prisoners of war get the surprise of their lives. Seriously wounded in battle, they were brought here for treatment--" (41-16)
Flash Points USA - America at War - Robert Dallek
Flash Points USA - America at War - Robert Dallek (raw interview with Robert Dallek speaking about various Presidents) 07.00.54 Robert Dallek says "In America there is always a domestic political component to going to war", that Franklin Roosevelt understood that "before you can fight a war you need a stable domestic consensus that backs that conflict" continues to say that America didn't enter the war until after Pearl Harbor and by that time he had the full support behind him. Johnson fails on that fact, and he ties in the War in Iraq as well as not having domestic backing, and also Harry Truman in the Korean War. He then mentions Abraham Lincoln, "if there had been more defeats he might well have been defeated in 1864 and you would have a candidate who would have worked out some sort of peace arrangement with the South and allowed them to be an independent state." 07.04.27 Dallek says "Theodore Roosevelt once said that you can't be a great President unless you have a war, but he was thinking back to Lincoln who of course leads the country through the successful Civil War. Woodrow Wilson leads the country through a successful war, but then loses the peace, he does get high marks for having won the war but he is sharply criticized for losing the peace. Roosevelt secures his reputation as one of the three great Presidents because he leads the country in success in WWII, and of course leading the country through the Great Depression." Dallek continues to say that Harry Truman's success was in the Cold War, that eclipses the defeat in Korea. Says "Lyndon Johnson, for all his success on the domestic side, the great society, the war on poverty, civil rights, the Medicare legislation, the federal aid to education, for all these things his reputation is blighted by the defeat in Vietnam. As it's been said, the only war the United States ever lost." 07.05.50 Dallek talks about George W. Bush and his reputation might be blighted by the Iraq War. Mentions George Bush, Sr., and says that he does have a successful war in removing Saddam Hussein and Iraq from Kuwait, but it isn't enough of a success to overcome his problems with the economy. Dallek states the current War in Iraq is a "quagmire like Vietnam." 07.07.04 "Presidents though they will deny it, always think about their historical reputation and losing a war is not a way to secure your reputation as a great President and so once they enter into a conflict like that, their ego is involved, their standing in history is up for grabs and they're not going to back away from that conflict, they're not going to admit errors, they're not going to admit false assumptions, that was true of Johnson, that's true of George W. Bush, Harry Truman wanted to get out, but didn't know how and was trapped there and wouldn't acknowledge that there was a real mistake in crossing the parallel, and these President's are strong willed obviously, and they're stubborn and have big ego's and can be quite grandiose and this comes into play when you're dealing with an issue of this sort." 07.08.20 Dallek says "Napoleon once said "Give me Generals who know something about strategy and tactics, but best of all give me Generals who are lucky". Continues to say "It's not strictly luck, it's being smart about the war you fight, and not getting into a scrap which you're not likely to win. The First George Bush was sensible in not crossing into Iraq, he saw the dangers, he describes them in his memoirs as to what the real dangers were of crossing the line, going into Iraq and taking on the burden, the responsibility of fighting in Iraq. Someone once said to me "the only thing you control in war is the first shot, and then in a sense you're in the lap of the gods."
Sikorsky Helos, POW Camp in North Korea
Master 1821 - Tape 1 TLS United States Air Force (U.S.A.F) airmen standing beside USAF rescue helicopter, air base in South Korea. TLS USAF Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly rescue helicopter lifting off, Sikorsky H-19 (UH-19B) Chickasaw rescue helo readying to take off in FG. Aerial view of desolate North Korean countryside, as viewed from in-flight helo. MS U.S. officer and South Korean interpreter meeting with Korean People's Army (KPA, North Korea) officers, sitting on opposite sides of table while negotiating release of prisoners of war (POWs). Panning low angle TLS Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw rescue helicopter flying over barbed wire, coming in for landing. LS POWs running, walking for landed Chickasaw copter inside POW camp. Repeat footage twice.
Biography: Harry S. Truman
Korean war. General Douglas MacArthur with aviator glasses on, pinning medal on African American soldier.
Flash Points USA - America at War - Robert Dallek
Flash Points USA - America at War - Robert Dallek (raw interview with Robert Dallek speaking about various Presidents) 06.02.03 Mr. Dallek speaking about Abraham Lincoln says "There was a terrible crisis in the United States when Lincoln was elected President in 1860, the South was threatening to secede because the Republican party was dead set against the expansion of slavery into the territories and the South felt that is was going to be overwhelmed by the North and they seceded and Lincoln felt that this was understandably the destruction of the Union." 06.03.47 He continues to say "when war erupts it's usually the consequence of unpredictable circumstances". He explains that Lincoln was lead by circumstances in the Civil War, it was the "bloodiest struggle in American history, 620,000 Americans on both sides of the line perish. He continues to say that "a series of victories in the fall of 1864 secure Lincolns re-election and put the Union on the final road to victory". Speaks more about the post-war, reconstruction, Lincolns assassination, successor Andrew Johnson impeachment. Speaks about Lincolns presidency, he wasn't seen as a great leader, called the "original baboon", retrospectively he is seen as one of the three great presidents in history along with George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt. Dallek says "He won the Civil War and he preserved the Union, and this makes him of the greatest Presidents in history", talks about his personality, his speeches are what recommends him, but contemporaries didn't see him that way. 06.08.43 Dallek talks about President Harry Truman, says he's seen now as a great President, but when he left office he was seen as a failure. Mentions FDR, Thomas Dewey, election was "the greatest upset in American Presidential history", Truman enters into a new term of popularity, fair deal, Korean War, 38th parallel, Douglas Macarthur. "It was Truman who put into the Containment Doctrine that is so instrumental in helping us win the Cold War, so Truman's reputation changes over time." 06.12.05 Robert Dallek states "The fact that Truman used the atomic bomb to end WWII to this day still sparks fierce debate." States that the United States is the only country to ever have used a nuclear weapon in anger, that tens of thousands of american lives were saved, because it helped us avoid an invasion of the Japanese home islands. Dallek continues "To get into a nuclear war would be a holocaust for the human race."