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Iran Rescue Mission, USS Nimitz
Iran Rescue Mission, USS Nimitz Indian Ocean
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 7, 1973
[00.32.30] [Robert MacNEILL in studio] MacNEILL states that Clarence KELLY was also nominated to be the permanent director of the FBI, after the previous nominee, Patrick GRAY, was "another casualty of the Watergate". Introduces an interview of Sen. INOUYE by reporter Peter KAYE [00.33.00--KAYE and INOUYE seated at committee table] KAYE asks about progress and the state of the committee at that point. INOUYE replies that it's been exhausting, personally, that the committee has attempted nonpartisan objectivity, and attempted to get the facts out. Nonetheless aware of the dangerous possibility of harming innocent people's reputations, and also of allowing a forum for dishonest witnesses to make self-serving statements. KAYE states that INOUYE has been among the most incisive and thorough questioners of witnesses, attempting to make connections between low-level figures and the "higher-ups". Asks if this is a priority INOUYE says it's not necessarily tying the lower-downs to higher-ups, but that many witnesses have made statements that have done so, and it is his concern to investigate the witnesses fully to avoid making dangerous inferences. The committee wants to abide by "innocent until proven guilty", and that it is his duty to thoroughly examine the witnesses, as the "governmental process is on trial". Cites the statement by PORTER that deception and chicanery were part of the game of politics as usual as the evidence of the need to show government working fairly. [00.36.00--LEHRER in studio] LEHRER states that the investigation will continue next week with the return of PORTER to conclude his testimony, before moving on "to bigger, but not necessarily better, things." States that, pending the outcome of Federal immunity proceedings, Jeb MAGRUDER and John DEAN may be called to testify in the next week, followed most likely by MITCHELL, STANS, HALDEMAN, and EHRLICHMAN. LEHRER states that there is momentum building toward a desire to go after the big shots, but offers the opinion that it's easier to identify with the "little shots" like Robert ODLE, PORTER, and SLOAN, who have caused identification in the average person and aroused sympathy or disgust. While the smaller figures do deserve the same "come-uppance" that the larger ones do, "come-uppance" is a matter of degree, like power. Signs off [00.37.47--title screen--grant credits--NPACT ID--PBS network ID] [00.38.24--TAPE OUT, END OF 06/07/1973]
Operation Eagle Claw Memorial - Iran Rescue Casualties Memorial
Iran Rescue Casualties Memorial. Dedication of a plaque honoring the casualties of the Iranian hostage rescue attempt. Operation Eagle Claw Memorial.
Operation "Provide Comfort" (relief efforts for Kurdish refugees)
Includes interviews with U.S. Special Forces personnel, who explain food distribution and medical assistance to Kurdish refugees. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees holds a discussion at the campsite. Views of camp, people and water system. Some coalition troops take a cigarette break. Post office tent and activities in town of Silopi. Interview with a female postal clerk. Outgoing mail is loaded on board a UH-60A helo. Views of Camp Cukurca and organizational meeting for Kurdish refugees. Air traffic controller doing his job and explaining camp events and the situation. View of Turkish soldiers and British commandos.
Operation "Provide Promise" (Bosnian relief efforts)
02:00:00 -- Crew in cockpit of C-130E flying to Bosnia and landing at Sarajevo. Radio chatter. 02:06:30 -- U.N. crew unloads C-130E Hercules air transport at Sarajevo. 02:08:50 -- Cockpit POV of C-130E taking off from Sarajevo. 02:09:20 -- Interview with Major Les Anzjon, USAF, regarding airlifts to Sarajevo. 02:16:20 -- Cockpit POV of C-130E as it lands at Sarajevo. 02:20:03 -- U.N. crew unloads C-130E at Sarajevo. 02:32:45 -- Crew of USAF C-130E as it flies to Bosnia and makes an air drop (shot with nitecam). 02:36:15 -- Nitecam interview of Master Sergeant Michael E. Heyers, USAF, regarding air drops over Bosnia.
Operation "Provide Promise" (Bosnian relief efforts)
Operation "Provide Promise" (Bosnian relief efforts)
Operation Provide Promise (Bosnian relief efforts)
Crew loading C-130E Hercules air transport, then taking off.
Operation Provide Promise (Bosnian relief efforts)
02:23:24 -- German C-160 aircraft taxis into Rhein Main, where it is fueled and loaded with supplies for Bosnia. 02:28:04 -- Interview with Master Sergeant Bud Sloan, USAF. 29:33 -- German ground crewman signals to taxiing C-160. 02:31:34 -- Ground crewman signals UH-1 helicopter. Passengers get out of helo. 02:32:04 -- C-160 aircraft takes off. 02:42:39 -- C-160 lands and taxis in. 02:45:59 -- USAF crew inside C-130E putting survival gear on, including pistols. 02:49:20 -- Interview with Captain Miles Price, USAF. 02:51:35 -- USAF C-130Es on flightline at dawn. 02:52:05 -- Crew inside C-130E at night, preparing for takeoff. 02:52:55 -- Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Paul Roth, USAF.
Operation Provide Comfort (relief efforts for Kurdish refugees)
Covers humanitarian relief given to Kurdish refugees by U.S. Joint Services Task Force and calition forces. Shows Kurdish camps and towns in the mountains along the Iraqi-Turkish border with Joint Task Forces organizing camps, distributing food, giving medical care, and patrolling the area to protect Kurds from Iraqi soldiers. Coverage of U.S. and coalition forces assistance to Kurdish refugees who fled to the mountains along the Iraqi-Turkish border. Views of ammunition storage area and POL (petroleum-oil-lubricants) storage in Silopi, Turkey. USAF UH-60s land and take off at Incirlik air base and POL drums are on/offloaded from U.S. CH-47 helos. German CH-53 lands in a field and takes on board a U.S. Special Forces medical team. Shots of team leaving helo and hiking a mountain trail to a Kurdish camp and inoculating children. Kurdish refugees with possessions and some mules walking barren mountain trails on Iraqi-Turkish border. Includes U.S. Special Forces observers counting refugees and one of them explains their circumstances.
USS Vincennes (CG 49)
Horn on USS Vincennes sounding alarm; four adult Caucasian male U.S. Navy sailors on deck as voice announces,"General quarters! All hands, man your battle stations!" Adult male sailor plotting course on map; pilothouse/bridge, sailors performing duties at various stations. Adult Caucasian male sailor wearing undershirt, strapping on black pouch. Three adult Caucasian male sailors standing at front of pilothouse; two of them use binoculars to look out window; sailors perform duties at stations in BG. Three adult male sailors standing outside, one wearing a flak jacket, standing next to gun. Adult Caucasian male sailor sitting at radar station with adult Caucasian male supervisor behind him (screen reflection).
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58)
Tugboat pulling damaged USS Samuel B. Roberts in open sea; ship is riding low in water with bilge pumps working; adult Caucasian male sailors on deck.
Operation Desert Shield (buildup to the Persian Gulf War)
01:00:00 -- USAF Lieutenant General Charles A. Horner, commander of the 9th Air Force and U.S. Central Command forces (from Shaw Air Force Base, SC), talks about troops deployed to the desert. 01:00:51 -- C-5A Galaxy taxis to a stop. General Hansford T. Johnson, commander-in-chief, Transportation Command and Military Airlift Command, gets off the plane. He is greeted by military VIPs. Entourage drives off in white autos. 01:04:48 -- Interiors of facility. General Johnson and others eat, talk, then leave. 01:08:42 -- Gen. Johnson and others tour Saudi base, speak with troops, shake hands. 01:11:43 -- Prince Sultan, general of the Saudi forces, talks about attacking and overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Pan shot to press asking questions [NOTE: This pan shot of the press is CNN footage -- not for licensing. Also, the interview is interrupted by a long blank section on the tape.]
Operation Desert Shield: Senator Robert J. Dole
Senator Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) and other U.S. senators talk to press about Saddam Hussein and efforts to force him to withdraw from Kuwait.
Operation Desert Shield: Generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf
01:48:28 -- Evening shots of Army General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, getting off a plane. He is greeted by Army General H. Norman Schwarzkopf III, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Shots of other VIPs, then group goes into a building. 01:49:50 -- Generals Powell and Schwarzkopf with Saudi officials. Powell converses with a Saudi general about rapport between Saudis and Americans. Pan to pictures on wall of Saudi royalty. 01:53:19 -- Powell and others leave the building.
Operation Desert Shield: President George Bush
President George Bush speaks at rostrum during Thanksgiving holidays. He talks about freedom, says a prayer, gives thanks to the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard for the invitation to spend Thanksgiving on board the USS Nassau. Two men stand next to and just behind the President.
U.S. Bombs North Vietnam
U.S. Bombs North Vietnam "U.S. fighter bombers step up the air war over North Vietnam, blasting railroad lines, power stations, supply camps, and enemy convoys. It's the heaviest single day of air attacks since last November." Great side view air to air shot of U.S. A-1 Skyraider prop fighter-bomber in flight. Great slow motion aerials of bombs falling, exploding in jungle. Great slow motion aerial shot of F-105 Thunderchief jet fighter-bomber dropping bombs over jungle. Aerial shot of ground explosions by bend in river. LSs American fighter-bombers swooping over trees, dropping napalm bombs (phosphorescent explosions).
Failed Rocket-Engine Test
Failed Rocket-Engine Test "The nozzle of a gigantic rocket engine breaks loose during a static test-firing, shooting flames hundreds of feet in the air, rattling camera over two miles away, and raining debris over a wide area. NASA has been testing to find a solid-fuel engine. " MS solid-fuel rocket. LS failed test, explosion, rocket nozzle breaking loose, releasing fuel, mighty flame plume rising high into air; shockwave shakes camera. MS - The engine burns 100-tons of fuel a second. MS - You can see the image shaking because of the shockwave that is over two miles away.
Operation Desert Shield: naval activities
Maritime pre-positioning ship (MPS) USNS Major Stephen W. Pless in the Persian Gulf. Two tug boats next to ship.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 12, 1973
[00.02.00--NPACT letters on black screen--image of page bearing Senate Resolution 60--Robert MacNEILL v.o. reads text of resolution--title screen 'SENATE HEARINGS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES'--MacNEILL in studio] ***SEE RESTRICTIONS FIELD IN RIGHTS SECTION*** [00.02.57--MacNEILL in studio] MacNEILL states that the ERVIN committee that day fended off several high-level attempts to to get it to delay its activities. When told by a witness (Maurice STANS) that his testimony to the committee would prejudice his case in a criminal indictment, the committee voted to compel his testimony. Further, Watergate judge John SIRICA denied an attempt by SPECIAL PROSECUTOR Archibald COX to black out the TV coverage of the hearings, which will allow the airing of the testimony of the two most potentially dramatic witnesses, Jeb MAGRUDER and John DEAN. SIRICA granted both men immunity to appear before the committee, with MAGRUDER potentially appearing the next day and DEAN next week. MacNEILL states that both REPUBLICAN and DEMOCRAT committee members dismissed the charge by VP AGNEW that the hearings were "a gross perversion of justice". [00.04.00-Jim LEHRER] LEHRER states that the decision of Judge Sirica [shown on screen, b/w headshot] climaxed a delay of several weeks to get immunity for MAGRUDER and DEAN, and also ordered DEAN to testify before a federal grand jury, which DEAN did, taking the FIFTH amendment. [MacNEILL] MacNEILL states that the two chief counsels for the committee were absent, Sam DASH and Fred THOMPSON, to prepare MAGRUDER to testify. LEHRER introduces guest commentator William GREENHALGH, Georgetown University Law professor. LEHRER said that STANS' lawyer posed the first legal hassle for the committee. GREENHALGH agrees, saying that BARKER, STANS' attorney, read a lenthy statement that objected to the committee calling STANS, on the grounds that it would prejudice a jury in New York, where STANS faces criminal indictment. LEHRER states that Senator ERVIN heard the statement and denied the request. Introduces other guest commentator Alan BARTH, a Washington journalist. MacNEILL states that no one actually mentioned the VESCO case,[STANS' indictment], except to assure one another that they weren't going to talk about it. Instead, talk centered on the payment of large sums of cash, including payment of $75,000 to Herb KALMBACH, NIXON's personal lawyer, without explanation of its purpose [00.05.52--STANS testifying] STANS talks about making that payment, after a phone call from KALMBACH, with no explanation except "I am here on a White House project, a special mission, and I need all the cash I can get." KALMBACH insisted on cash and cited "high authority" to receive the funds, and refused to name the authority. [00.07.00--MacNEILL in studio]
Marine Mammals - California Sea Lion
(On Part 2) Male California sea lion sleeps in water.
Marine Mammals - Sea Otter
(On Part 2) Female sea otter and pup, nursing, grooming, rolling in the water.
Marine Mammals - California Sea Lion
(On Part 2) Male California sea lion on rock. Female sea lion and pup. Female California sea lions on rocks argue, fight.
Marine Mammals - Harbor Seal
(On Part 2) Harbor seals on rocks.
Marine Mammals - Sea Otter
(On Part 2) Female sea otter grooms, rolls in water, yawns. Otter sleeping in kelp. Female carries baby on her stomach. Male otter does somersault and grooms. Female grooms in kelp bed.