Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. BIG SWITCH, FREEDOM VILLAGE, MUNSAN-NI, KOREA

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. BIG SWITCH, FREEDOM VILLAGE, MUNSAN-NI, KOREA

1953

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Crowd around ambulance bringing first repatriated prisoners from Panmunjom. Four ambulances come into area. welcoming committee consisting of Gens Taylor, Weyland, Anderson, Osburn. Marine Band is on hand. Cut-ins as the band plays. Gens Weyland, Anderson and another man talk while awaiting ambulances. MS (RV), as American repatriates file out of ambulances; some N. Koreans here. Gen Weyland shakes hands with the men. Another Gen, his back to the camera, shakes hands with returnees. Int whse. Prisoners talking to some of the men. One prisoner seated at the edge of table drinks coffee from a container, grins, sticks out his tongue. CU, altar. Four prisoners at table having coffee. Men being interviewed at a table which is covered with microphones. The same at another table. One prisoner has a long beard. Ext, Gen Taylor walks with John Foster Dulles. Another man comes by. He is possibly Undersecretary Robertson. Henry Cabot Lodge poses by a car.

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Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902-1985

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Weyland, Otto P. (Otto Paul), 1902-1979

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