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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “In Search of Peace” is a film made during the Kennedy Administration. It details basic objectives of US foreign policy throughout the early 1960s through a compilation of first hand footage of American troops and aid workers across Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe as well as interviews with principal government officials. Produced for the United States Department of State by Vision Associates, Inc, this film was part of the Administration's “soft power“ strategy during the Cold War era. The film was directed by Lee R Bobker, edited by Jacques Bart and filmed by Ray Long and Herbert Raditschnig. Ext. State Department building Washington, D.C (0:09). Secretary of State Dean Rusk (0:40). Deputy Assistant Secretary for Politico - Military Affairs Jeffrey C. Kitchen (0:43). Under Secretary of State George W. Ball (0:50). Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development David E. Bell (0:57). Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs Joseph J. Sisco (1:02). Special Assistant to the President Walt Rostow (1:10). Article by New York Times correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt, other newspaper article clippings about Soviet agenda (1:40). Roll call Red Army in Iran (1:53). Smoke billows over forest in Bulgaria, guerrilla fighting (1:59). Red Army and locals stand at make-shift border dividing Berlin (2:03). North Korean troops run across 30th parallel (2:07). South Korean refugees walk along muddy road (2:12). Cuba Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson's UN Security Council speech 1962 (2:22). Tanks move in on protestors in Budapest (2:42). Smoke billows from ruins of destroyed buildings, aftermath Viet Cong (2:56). Communist insurgency Thailand, protestors run, hide among urban buildings (5:11). Exterior Thai Buddhist temple (5:25). Riverboat houses, market stalls, women sell goods from single-person canoes (5:38). Downtown cosmopolitan Thai city (5:52). American troops train Thai soldiers at military camp (6:17). Thai soldier sits at radio transmitter (6:22). Rural villagers observe as bulldozer clears road (6:31). Thai soldiers artillery, other tactical drills (6:45). Pilot climbs into jet, tiger painted on facade, perhaps Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base (7:25). Map Southeast Asia - encroachment by North Vietnamese and Chinese operatives (7:42). George W. Ball: Marshall Plan, NATO (8:59). NATO Parliament meeting in session (9:30). Building with sign for GATT Tariff Conference (9:48). Production line at European Automobile factory (9:56). Japan representative, Organization for Economic Prosperity Conference (OECD) (10:20). Outline African continent overlaid huts on lake shore (10:40). American doctor tends to mothers and babies at clinic (10:59). Medical caravan truck ‘Service des Grandes Endemies’ Ivorian-American campaign against measles (11:14). 1960s United States of America Patriotic Shaking Hands 6“ Decal USA Coat of Arms on medical equipment and vaccine boxes (12:49). Vaccination campaigns Latin America, Africa (13:12). Nigerian fisherman casts net into bay. Nigeria city streets, school classroom, basket weavers (13:29). American teacher sits with students at Nigerian teacher college (14:04). Poultry farm eastern Nigeria, chicks, man sorts collected eggs (15:09). Fishermen unload, weigh shrimp (16:03). American foreign assistance projects: construction of homes, inside factories (16:26). UN Peacekeeper looks through binoculars in Cyprus (18:09). UN officer in peacekeeping mission between Israel and Arabs (18:14). UN check-points, lookout posts, tanks rolling through streets of Cyprus (18:44). United Nations Security Council (19:35). Romania: Scânteia House, Arcul de Triumf Bucharest, pedestrians (21:56). Interviews in English Romanian young adults, interior of large commercial grocery store (22:27). Barbed wire, construction of the Berlin Wall, Germans look on as workers lay bricks (24:29). Germans wave to each other from either side of wall (24:46). Nuclear mushroom cloud (24:52). Montage market, city, rural scenes from across Asia, Africa, Latin America (26:14). Flag waves above entrance Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), world leaders discuss strategy (27:15). US aid worker in field, helps pull fishing net in lake in Latin America (27:29). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
