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Witness an exciting collection of news footage from 1979 - featuring coverage of the Rhodesian Bush War, the Soviet-Afghan War, political ads with the likes of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and others, as well as segments featuring former NATO Supreme Allied Commanders Europe and US Army Generals, Dwight Eisenhower and Alexander Haig!

0:22Copy video clip URL The footage begins. 

0:28Copy video clip URL A digital outline map of the United States of America is shown. 

0:53Copy video clip URL A title card for “WGBH/Boston” appears – with the program being dated December twenty-seven, nineteen-seventy-nine. 

2:34Copy video clip URL An on-screen countdown begins. 

2:50Copy video clip URL A medical documentary segment on the STD known as “Herpes”, begins. 

3:11Copy video clip URL An experimental, anti-Herpes medicinal cream is introduced. 

3:33Copy video clip URL A Medical Doctor at Beth-Israel Hospital referred to as “Dr. Schnipper”, is introduced. 

7:00Copy video clip URL The next segment of the program begins. 

7:20Copy video clip URL A press conference of some sort is shown. 

15:00Copy video clip URL A campaign ad for LBJ featuring archival footage of a nuclear and/or hydrogen bomb test detonation, is shown. 

16:26Copy video clip URL President Jimmy Carter is shown at an official White House function. 

18:47Copy video clip URL A “Black and White” political ad for Dwight Eisenhower’s Presidential Campaign, is shown. 

19:00Copy video clip URL Archival footage of US Army Infantrymen landing either on the Utah or Omaha Beachheads on June sixth, nineteen-forty-four (“D-Day”), is shown.

19:02Copy video clip URL Archival footage of US Army Infantrymen (most likely of the Fourth or Twenty-Eighth Infantry Divisions) marching in formation in liberated Paris, France in nineteen-forty-four, is shown. 

19:04Copy video clip URL Archival footage of US Citizens and Servicemen cheering and celebrating “Victory in Europe Day” (“VE Day”) on May eighth, nineteen-forty-five, is shown. 

19:18Copy video clip URL Then-Republican Presidential Candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, states that the US Army and US Marine Corps lack the proper levels of armor to carry on the fighting in the Korean War. 

19:56Copy video clip URL A US Senatorial Campaign ad for Charles Percy, begins. 

20:27Copy video clip URL Family home footage of Robert Kennedy is shown. 

20:50Copy video clip URL A campaign ad for US President Gerald Ford, is shown. 

21:59Copy video clip URL A political ad for the Mississippi Governor Candidate, William Winter, is shown.

22:28Copy video clip URL A campaign ad for US President Ronald Reagan, is shown. 

23:42Copy video clip URL A US Senatorial Campaign ad for Alan Cranston, is shown. 

23:47Copy video clip URL A Presidential Campaign ad for California Governor Jerry Brown, is shown. 

25:42Copy video clip URL The next segment of the program begins. 

26:47Copy video clip URL Footage of American mechanized farming footage from nineteen-thirty-five is shown. 

26:58Copy video clip URL Footage of American mechanized farming footage from nineteen-seventy-eight is shown.

30:25Copy video clip URL The next segment of the program begins. 

30:42Copy video clip URL Footage detailing the Soviet Union’s military invasion of Afghanistan, is shown. 

31:26Copy video clip URL Footage of Soviet Army T – Seventy-Two tanks in Afghanistan is shown. 

32:32Copy video clip URL Footage of gold bar and gold coin production in the US, is shown. 

34:27Copy video clip URL A televised debate in Canada of some sort is shown. 

36:32Copy video clip URL Footage of floods and storms in the UK is shown. 

38:15Copy video clip URL Footage from the “Rhodesian Bush War” in Africa, is shown. 

42:16Copy video clip URL Footage of former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, US Army General Alexander Haig, is shown. 

46:17Copy video clip URL Footage from the US’s NOAA is shown. 

48:26Copy video clip URL Footage of an Italian ski-jumping competition is shown. 

57:07Copy video clip URL Footage of a PLO Spokesman is shown. 

1:00:53Copy video clip URL A news report on the Soviet-Afghan War is shown.