Watch The Big Picture - Pentagon Report

Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States. From the U.S. Army's THE BIG PICTURE television series, 1950-1975. "Pentagon Report" gives the ABCs of a year of crisis in Asia, Berlin, and Cuba. It tells how our Armed Forces meet every challenge and how Communism's guerrilla wars are being combated by counterinsurgency, a major development of the year. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara personally reports on progress in carrying out the President's program for defense of the free world and the President himself pays tribute to all who serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps in his 1963 Message to Congress. Pentagon reporter Peter Hackes narrates this stirring 30-minute color motion picture documentary.

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