- Title: S. VIETNAM: SENATOR KENNEDY VISITS ARMY CAMPS
- Date: 27th October 1965
- Summary: 1. MS AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRONT OF HEADQUARTERS BUILDING IN NHA TRANG 0.07 2. MS SENATOR KENNEDY AND PARTY VISIT HEADQUARTERS 0.12 3. MS VIETNAMESE GIRLS WHO WORK THERE LOOKING ON 0.16 4. CU KENNEDY GREETED BY SOLDIERS 0.19 5. LS KENNEDY AND PARTY IN FRONT OF HEADQUARTERS 0.22 6. CU KENNEDY (TILT DOWN TO) SOUVENIR BEING PRESENTED BY AN OFFICER 0.31 7. MS KENNEDY AND PARTY LEAVE HEADQUARTERS 0.35 8. AERIAL VIEW: SHIP (TILT UP) TO PLANES OVER CAM RANH BAY 0.44 9. AERIAL VIEW: CAN THO PROVINCE 0.48 10. LS VIETNAMESE REGIONAL FORCE AT CAN THO TRAINING CENTRE (TWO SHOTS) 0.59 11. MS KENNEDY AND PARTY BEING BRIEFED BY U.S. OFFICERS 1.02 12. LS PARTY LEAVING CAMP 1.08 13. AERIAL VIEW: HELICOPTER TAKING KENNEDY AND PARTY TO CAI CAI 1.11 14. AERIAL VIEW: CAI CAI (BACKGROUND: SMOKE FROM GROUND FIRE) 1.14 15. LS VIETNAMESE FLAG (TILT UP) TO CAI CAI OUTPOST 1.16 16. MS KENNEDY GREETS THE TROOPS 1.20 17. LS GROUP LOOKING TOWARDS THE BORDER 1.23 Initials LBJ/VS/MK/CA/CHM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 11th November 1965 12:00
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- Location: CAM RANH BAY, CAN THO PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM
- Country: Vietnam
- Reuters ID: LVAI061K47098RT0YMQJQQDMFWG
- Story Text: AMERICAN SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY AND THREE CONGRESSIONAL COLLEAGUES ARE NOW IN VIETNAM TOURING THE VARIOUS PROVINCES TO STUDY THE REFUGEE PROBLEM AND MEET AMERICAN TROOPS.
ON THE THIRD DAY (TUESDAY) OF THEIR TOUR TO SOUTH VIETNAM SENATOR KENNEDY AND HIS PARTY VISITED SOME OF THE AMERICAN TROOPS STATIONED IN NHA TRANG, NORTH-EAST OF SAIGON. THEY WERE ENTHUSIASTICALLY GREETED BY THE SOLDIERS AND PRESENTED WITH A SOUVENIR.
SENATOR KENNEDY, ACCOMPANIED BY SENATOR JOSEPH TYDINGS, AND CONGRESSMEN JOHN CULVER AND JOHN TURNEY; TRAVELLED THROUGHOUT SOUTH VIETNAM BY MILITARY AIRCRAFT. FLYING INTO CAN THO PROVINCE, THEY WATCHED THE VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS TRAINING WITH THE AMERICANS IN GUERILLA WARFARE.
ON THE LAST LEG OF THEIR TRIP FOR THE DAY THEY WERE GREETED BY VIET CONG ARMS FIRE AS THEY FLEW INTO CAI-CAI SPECIAL FORCES CAMP NEAR THE CAMBODIAN BORDER, AND ONE OF THE LONLIEST OUTPOSTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR.
THE SNIPING BROKE OUT FROM A RIVER LESS THAN A MILE FROM THIS CAMP. LOW-FLYING U.S. ARMY HELICOPTERS, WHICH HAD DRAWN THE FIRE, IMMEDIATELY SWEPT IN AND STRAFED THE SPOT WITH ROCKETS AND MACHINE-GUNS. SENATOR KENNEDY AND HIS COLLEAGUES WATCHED THE BRIEF ACTION MARKED BY PUFFS OF WHITE SMOKE WHILE CIRCLING IN THEIR HELICOPTER.
AT THE OUTPOST, SENATOR KENNEDY TALKED WITH OFFICIALS OF THE 150-MAN STRONG VIETNAMESE REGULAR FORCE STATIONED THERE, AND WITH U.S. SPECIAL FORCES MEN WHO ADVISE ON OPERATIONS IN THE AREA. ARMED HELICOPTERS FLEW LOW OVERHEAD THROUGHOUT THE VISIT. SENATOR KENNEDY AND HIS PARTY LEAVE FOR VIENTIANE IN LAOS ON WEDNESDAY (OCTOBER 27).
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