Purple Heart Ceremony
Purple Heart Ceremony
Clip: 500336_1_1
Year Shot: 1963
(Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: Color
Tape Master: 1494
Original Film: HFR-DFS-16-023
HD: N/A
Location: California, United States
Timecode: 01:28:19 - 01:29:11
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Panning TLS U.S. Army color guard marching along quad of military base during award ceremony. TLS seated audience (predominantly older white folks). MS/MCUs U.S. Army colonel wearing dress uniform presenting two shorn, towheaded white boys with the Purple Heart. MS colonel presenting weeping Asian-American woman with the Purple Heart; stricken with grief, she lowers her head to her chest, and the colonel taps her shoulder in brief consolation before moving down the line. MCU Purple Heart box being held over shaking hands. TLS outdoor ceremony, colonel presenting medals, African-American Star & Stripes photographer taking picture in FG. TLS/MSs military band, followed by marching recruits.