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1965 Voting Rights Bill + Build Up of Troops In Southeast Asia 250210-12 | Footage Farm

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[1965 - US Government:  Voting Rights Bill Signed; US Builds Up Troops In Southeast Asia.  Aug65]
Intertitle:  Historic Ceremony - The Right To Vote Signed Into Law.
17:04:51  View of East face of Capitol building. Interior of Rotunda w/ President Johnson at lecturn & guests seated around; CU faces, profile of Lincoln bust; LA of statue.  Other views of guests, MCU Roy Wilkins & Black clergyman.
LBJ VO:  "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield...today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds. Today the Negro story and the American story fuse and blend...This law will ensure them the right to vote. The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify. The right is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny...."
17:06:07  Standing applause; LBJ & others leaving.
17:06:19  CU chandelier, tilt down to LBJ sitting down to sign w/ many pens as people talk behind him. including Martin Luther King.
17:06:47  Intertitle:  U.S. Build-Up, More Troops Embark For Southeast Asia.
17:06:52  Oakland, California.  Ship at dock loading, POV past trucks, personnel carriers & other equipment waiting to be loaded.  Train pulling up w/ soldiers & off w/ bags, given coffee by Red Cross.  Troop ship & men boarding thru side doorway.  High angle of dock & men onboard ship.
17:08:28  Golden Gate bridge & 2-stack liner passing under.
Vietnam War Escalation; Anti-Communism; Civil Rights; Presidential Speech; Bill Signing; 1960s; Democracy;
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