- Title: VM-1172A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:02:34 - TITLE: "HALL OF HEROES". COLUMNIST JOHN DALY STANDS BEFORE THE LARGE MEDALS AND TELLS IT'S STORY AND WHAT IT TOOK TO EARN THEM. 00:03:08 - DALY STOPS BEFORE THE NAMES OF THE 3210 HEROS THAT EARNED THE MEDAL DURING IT'S EXISTENCE. 00:03:42 - PRESIDENT LBJ MAKES A SPEECH ABOUT 4 MORE "GALLANT AMERICANS", ABOUT TO BE AWARDED THE MEDAL OF HONOR ON A DAY IN MAY 1968. THE SAME DAY THE HALL OF HEROES WAS COMMEMORATED. 00:04:00 - LBJ HONORS CHARLES E. HAGERMEISTER, JAMES E. WILLIAMS, HAROLD O. YOUNG AND RICHARD A. PITMAN, WHO STAND BEHIND HIM AND 1ST TIME A MEMBER OF EACH SERVICE IS HONORED TOGETHER AT A SINGLE CEREMONY. 00:04:29 - AS LBJ PLACES THE MEDAL AROUND NECK OF EACH RECIPIENT, THE HEROIC DEED OF EACH ONE IS READ OUT LOUD. 00:06:05 - DALY EXPLAINS THE 3 VERSIONS OF THE MEDAL. 00:07:00 - MONTAGE REENACTMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SCENES, AS DALY NARRATES. SEA BATTLES OF THE WAR OF 1812 ARE ALSO REENACTED IN THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. 00:09:46 - CU NEWS HEADLINE: "SOUTHERN STATES WITHDRAW FROM UNION - FORM CONFEDERACY". 00:09:48 - MONTAGE REENACTMENT OF CIVIL WAR SCENES. THE WAR THE MEDAL OF HONOR WAS BORN. 00:12:41 - DALY POINTS TO A ROLL CALL OF NAMES WHICH FOLLOWED THE CIVIL WAR IN WHICH THE MEDAL OF HONOR WAS AWARDED. THE INDIAN CAMPAIGNS. 00:12:54 - MONTAGE REENACTMENT OF COVERED WAGONS HEADING WEST AND COWBOYS DRIVING A HERD AND AN INDIAN ON A HORSE LOOKING DOWN FROM A MOUNTAIN TOP. 00:13:32 - MONTAGE REENACTMENT OF CAVALRY FIGHTING INDIANS AT LITTLE BIG HORN WHERE 24 MEN THAT STOOD WITH CUSTER WON THE HIGHEST AWARD. 00:15:00 - "REMEMBER THE MAINE". POSTER. MONTAGE REENACTMENT OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, WITH TEDDY ROOSEVELT "ROUGH RIDERS" STORMING SAN JUAN HILL. 30 SOLDIERS WON THE MEDAL IN THIS WAR. 00:16:10 - MONTAGE WWI NEWSPAPER HEADLINES. REENACTMENT OF MEN IN THE TRENCHES. CU NERVOUS DOUGH BOY'S FACE LIGHTS UP AS SHELLS BURST IN THE NIGHT. 00:17:47 - GERMAN MACHINE GUNNER FIRING ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND SOLDIERS CHARGING AS SHELLS BURST AROUND THEM. 00:19:00 - 95 WON THE MEDAL OF HONOR AS DALY TELLS OF THEIR HEROIC ACTS, INCLUDING SERGEANT ALVIN YORK. 00:19:44 - MONTAGE WWII BATTLE SCENES INCLUDING BEACH LANDINGS AND D-DAY BATTLE FILM. A GI ON A TROOP SHIP, USES HIS FLASHLIGHT TO READ A LETTER FROM HIS LOVED ONE. A REENACTMENT 00:23:10 - MONTAGE GIS COME HOME ON TROOPSHIPS AFTER THE WAR. HUGE CEMETERY WITH WHITE CROSSES. SOME DID NOT MAKE IT HOME. 00:23:57 - PAN OF KOREA BATTLE FRONT JUNE 1950. MONTAGE BATTLE SCENES OF THAT WAR. 132 NAMES WERE ADDED TO THE ROLL CALL OF VALOR DURING THAT WAR. 00:25:20 - DALY POINTS TO THE SPOT RESERVED FOR THE WAR IN VIETNAM WHICH THE 1ST FOUR WERE ADDED. MONTAGE VIETNAM BATTLE SCENES. 00:28:18 - REPORTER JOHN DALY CONCLUDES AND ASKS US TO "READ THESE NAMES, REMEMBER AND BE PROUD".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1890
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: VM-1172A