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Rural Home - Library of Congress Field Documentation LS/GV rural property w/ small house hiding behind trees, silhouette of an elderly woman seen on front stoop.
Rooftop Trio
Rooftop Trio - Library of Congress Field Documentation
Rooftop Trio
MS/MCUs three-piece country band playing atop a building, instruments include accordion (squeezebox), mandolin and stand-up bass made from galvanized medal played with bow. MCU man playing a triangle mandolin. MCU as man flips his mandolin showing the triangle shape & beep belly of the instrument.
Rooftop Trio
MS three-piece country band playing atop a building as fourth man in FG shows off his flatfoot clogging dance moves. MCU feet dancing. CU wooden box instrument played with bow, folk star symbol adorns the top (homemade cigar box fiddle/violin).
Man Playing Wind Instrument
Man Playing Wind Instrument - Library of Congress Field Documentation Brief MCU Caucasian man playing a flat recorder-like wind instrument.
Man Playing Unique String Instrument
Man Playing Unique String Instrument - Library of Congress Field Documentation MS/MCUs Caucasian man seated outside, singing while using bow to play unique string instrument. It is a single stringed instrument with tear-shaped body & rounded neck with an extreme curve at the top, looks like a fancy type of diddley bow.
Rural Landscape
Rural Landscape - Library of Congress Field Documentation Tracking shots of trees along road. LS pan of rural town, showing landscape & rural highway.
Country Trio
Country Trio - Library of Congress Field Documentation MS three Caucasian men standing in yard of rural property, singing while playing their instruments, an elderly woman seen standing directly behind them, great late 1930's era car seen parked in BG. Trio consists of stand-up bass, guitar & mandolin. MCU pan men playing while elderly woman bops along to the music. MCUs musicians' hands strumming their instruments. CUs faces of the musicians, they look related with similar facial features, most likely three generations of the same family.
Haitian Rara Procession
Haitian Rara Procession - Library of Congress Field Documentation Several great shots of Afro-Haitian men, women & children participating in ceremonial / ritual / religious procession. They dance & play bamboo horn instruments as they move through thatched roof village, one woman carries an effigy. MCU people with the effigy. GV village showing woman shuffle dancing while children run around. Brilliant MSs of procession with man in lead blowing a whistle & parading with baton. MS four men in wide brim hats playing bamboo horns.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT8
PBS PRESENTS A SPECIAL REPORT: NUREMBERG AND VIETNAM. WHO IS GUILTY? - PT8 A mock trial comparing the standard for "laws of war" set by the outcome of the Nuremberg Trials to US military actions in Vietnam. Was the United States in violation of international laws of war? This section features Robert E. Jordon (General Counsel to the US Army).
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT8
Robert MacNeil in studio asking Robert E. Jordon to respond to Adrian Fisher's comments regarding the "Laws of War".
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT8
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Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT8
Various shots as Robert E. Jordon defines war crimes.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT8
Various shots as Robert E. Jordon reads quote from the delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Saigon, regarding the MACV Directives. Jordon goes on to praise the US military for steps taken to define & establish the Rules of Engagement for their troops, examples given: every soldier was issued a pocket card outlining expected conduct, there was change in procedure regarding "Free Fire Zones", terms such as "Search & Destroy" were changed, guilty parties were prosecuted. Jordon finds it difficult to compare the military operations directed by US General Westmoreland in Vietnam with those of Japanese General Yamashita during WII.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT8
Various shots as Robert E. Jordon debates ideas given in book by fellow panelist Adrian Fisher, he clarifies his ideas regarding "Free Fire Zones" and civilians in war, he agrees there have been isolated incidences of injustice, but as a whole the US military conducted & supported ethical rules of engagement.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT8
Various shots as Robert E. Jordon disagrees & debates Adrian Fisher's ideas regarding civilian relocation, he refers to UN & Geneva documents supporting the relocation of civilians in order to remove them from harm.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT9
PBS PRESENTS A SPECIAL REPORT: NUREMBERG AND VIETNAM. WHO IS GUILTY? - PT9 A mock trial comparing the standard for "laws of war" set by the outcome of the Nuremberg Trials to US military actions in Vietnam. Was the United States in violation of international laws of war? This section features John Kerry (later: US Senator, Presidential Candidate) speaking as a Vietnam veteran, detailing his experience & expressing his opinions on US operations during the war.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT9
Robert MacNeil in studio introducing panelist John Kerry.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT9
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Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT9
Robert MacNeil in studio introducing John Kerry. First question for Kerry, "...how clearly were you made aware of the high command's policies & the treatment of civilians?" Kerry's response: "on the treatment of civilians we were really not made aware of a great deal, on the rules of engagement certainly this was a very clear cut well defined article in which we could read & in fact had to read & had to sign a piece a paper stating that we had read it & understood it." Kerry goes on to talk about "free fire zones", he explains his experience as gun boat commander in the Mekong Delta, his orders being to fire on huts, sink native boats & to "open fire whether we've been fired on or not" resulting in destroying everything in sight.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT9
Next question for John Kerry: "Do you have any personal experience of actually being directed to or encouraged to treat civilians in a way you though unreasonable, if not unlawful, unreasonable?" Kerry's response: "That alone was a way of treating them unreasonably..." he explains that if civilians were unfamiliar with US boats or military presence their first instinct might be to run, according to the rules of engagement the moment someone runs you could open fire. "Therefore you were really firing on people that you had no confirmation of VC or otherwise..."
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT9
Next question for John Kerry: "Your experience in the rivers, in the deltas, as a gun boat commander was nonetheless limited geographically, how can you be sure that what you say has a general validity?" Kerry's response: Kerry first explains that his service wasn't limited geographically, he was in Cam Ranh Bay and on almost every river on the Delta, on the Cambodian border & worked with the 9th infantry troops & coastal patrols. He goes on to talk about indiscriminant firing of mortar into territory which they could not see.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT10
PBS PRESENTS A SPECIAL REPORT: NUREMBERG AND VIETNAM. WHO IS GUILTY? - PT10 A mock trial comparing the standard for "laws of war" set by the outcome of the Nuremberg Trials to US military actions in Vietnam. Was the United States in violation of international laws of war? This section features Victor H. Krulak ( Lt General US Marine Corps) speaking as a Vietnam veteran, detailing his experience & expressing his opinions on US operations during the war.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT10
Robert MacNeil in studio introducing panelist Victor H. Krulak.