Vietnam War Highlights For 1971
Diplomats meet in Paris for peace talks to end the war in Vietnam. Campaign posters for lone candidate Nguyen Van Thieu precede a peasant woman in coolie hat casting a vote in a ballot box. Surrounded by the media, Thieu casts his vote. Army jeeps with soldiers manning gun turrets accompany the presidential limo. Lt. William Calley is escorted by guards to a military police car in Fort Benning, Georgia following his conviction for mass murder at My Lai. American soldiers packed aboard army trucks cheer their imminent departure from Vietnam.