CEASE-FIRE TALKS Part 3

Description

Summary: LS, Pan, NK guard marching on road. MLS, RV, guard marching twd bldg. MLS, man carrying radio coming down steps which lead to the UN billet building. MLS, Col James Murray, US Marine Corps, and Gen Henry I Hodes, Eighth Army, on steps. Korean guard to L. MS, SK officer with Maj Gene Paik Sun Yup. MS, Maj Gen Laurence C Cralgle, Air Force; Gen Paik, V Adm Charles Turner Joy and driver in jeep; move off. LS, UN delegation standing outside of United Nations (billets) bldg. MS, Gen Craigie, Adm Joy, Col Andrew Kinney sitting on steps reading documents. MS, the group having refreshments as they check notes. Also in these scenes are Gen Paik, Gen Hodes, Col Lee Soo Yong and others. Chinese and NK officers walking in area of conference building. Gen Nam Il and several officers walking by. MLS, through forked trunks of tree, as Communist delegation enters building. Four NK and Chinese officers leave recessed conference. Changing of Korean guard in front of of conference building. MLS, MS, US EM smoking and chatting with NKs in jeep. VSs, two NK officers coming up steps leading to UN billets and stopping to chat with Lt Col M W Heske director of Communications, Eighth Army. Heskett, says captions asked about sending a few NKs with his men to check communications lines. CU, two NKs talking. CU, one NK officer talking. Adm Joy, Gens Craigie, Paik arriving in jeep at UN billets. (soft focus) MS, Joy, then Craigie and Paik, looking around. Adm Joy and Maj Gen H I Hodes, followed by UN delegation, walking up steps. MS, Joy and Hodes, followed by Craigie and Paik and Adm Arleigh A Burke, walking up steps approaching billets. LS, UN billets (old mansion). CU, NK guard with sub-MG. MUNSAN-NI.: Korea: 07/10/1951: Gen Matthew B Ridgway at side of road with several jeeps of the Cease Fire convoy pass. He speaks to men in first vehicle as it goes through. MLS, Ridgway standing at Imjin R. A vehicle comes by; he waves. RV, as truck rolls onto the Imjin R bridge. MLS, MSs, Ridgway watches as convoy crosses bridge en route to Kaesong. MLS, Ridgway talks to Brig Gen Frank Allen, PIO officer, after convoy leaves. Another officer is nearby. Ridgway leaving in jeep. Vehicles of convoy in parking area. MS, NK taking pictures with still camera. Pan to, US soldier showing snapshots to grinning Chinese soldier. MS, NK still photog taking pictures of group of US soldiers chatting near parked vehicles. MLS, UN delegation, including Gen Craigie, Hodes, Adm Joy and others, file into conference room. Gen Matthew B Ridgway in jeep leaves compound area. Camera follows as convoy turns corner in roadway en route to Kaesong (vehicles passing Kaesong sign at one point). MSs, CU, Ridgway at Imjin R Bridge. He talks to newsmen just before Cease Fire convoy leaves.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities