Film Date
2/20/67
Film Reference Number
KRON 197-15
Description
KRON News report from February 20th 1967 featuring the arrival at San Francisco airport of actress Jayne Mansfield (1933-67) who had just returned from a three days visit with U.S. troops in South Vietnam. She becomes visibly upset at a press conference and comments: "There's no front line in Vietnam ... the fighting is everywhere." She admits "I got very broken up" by visiting injured soldiers because "they're lying there without limbs. And there's no one. There's no one there to hold their hand and say I love you and things are going to be fine." Ends with Mansfield on the verge of tears as she recalls: "One young person in particular he he just got to me. He lost his leg ... he was 25 years old. And the thing that upset me most is that they ... they're so proud of what they did. There's no bitterness at all."
Format
16mm newsfilm
Copyright
Young Broadcasting of San Francisco Inc.