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Robert S. McNamara: Still Images
The images listed below are photographs from individual soldiers, military photographers and others who have donated their photographs to the Vietnam Archive. The photographs for the most part are from the Vietnam War era and can be a good tool for visualizing the events of the war related through our documents or oral history interviews.
Please note that these images are only a sampling of the ones available from the Vietnam Archive. To find more use the advanced search module and the keywords suggested on the introductory page, narrow the media type to images in the right hand gray colored menu, click start search, then display search results and the database will display all of our Saigon: April 30, 1975 photographs.
Click on the item number to view the complete record for the image or click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.
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In the White House
Item #: VA002823
- Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Area of Attacks: ; US Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara points out for newsmen in Washington the area where American destroyers were attached August 2 and 4 by North Vietnam torpedo boats in international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Secretary McNamara told the press conference August 4 that the... (open complete record)
Item #: VA005767
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk (?) (open complete record)
Item #: VA005768
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- McNamara, and another Presidential Aide (open complete record)
Item #: VA005769
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- Jacket photo for IN RETROSPECT: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara (open complete record)
Item #: VA005771
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- Robert McNamara with President Kennedy. (open complete record)
Item #: VA005772
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- Robert S. McNamara, author of IN RETROSPECT: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (open complete record)
Item #: VA005773
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- Robert McNamara and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. (open complete record)
Item #: VA005775
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- Robert Kennedy and Robert McNamara (open complete record)
Item #: VA005776
- Vietnam Veterans Institute Collection
- Robert McNamara and others. (open complete record)
Item #: VA021173
- Larry Berman Collection (Personal Papers)
- Robert McNamara and Generals Earle Wheeler and William Westmoreland (open complete record)
Item #: VA021183
- Larry Berman Collection (Personal Papers)
- McNamara & Rusk (open complete record)
Item #: VA035244
- Peter Braestrup Collection
- PCC-53242 The Pentagon Washington, D. C. 12Jan61 US Army Photo by Oscar Porter Mr. Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense. Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corpse) A409659 Rw (open complete record)
Item #: VA052891
- Barry & Margaret Zorthian Collection
- PCC-53242 The Pentagon Washington, D. C. 12Jan61 US Army Photo by Oscar Porter Mr. Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense. Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corpse) A409659 Rw (open complete record)
In Vietnam
Item #: VA004740
- Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Vietnamese Briefing -- General Maxwell Taylor (left), chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (second from left) receive a briefing September 27 at Plei Mrong, Viet Nam, on actions of the Vietnamese Army's Special Forces. Secretary McNamara and Gene... (open complete record)
Item #: VA037492
- Lee Baker Collection
- Arrival of McNamara Party at Tan Son Nhut Airport. Left to Right: Colonel Lee Baker, Ambassador Lodge, General Paul Harkins, Secretary of Defense McNamara. (open complete record)
Item #: VA037495
- Lee Baker Collection
- Agencie Francais Press Corp. 'Jack' Owen (Oanh), Secretary of Finance, General Khanh, Secretary McNamara, General Taylor at Hon Hao Village. (open complete record)
Item #: VA037497
- Lee Baker Collection
- Bac Lieu: Harkins (back), General Maxwell Taylor, Secretary McNamara, General Khanh (Overthrew Diem), and Oanh (Jack Owen) (back to camera). (open complete record)
Item #: VA037499
- Lee Baker Collection
- Secretary McNamara, Lee Baker, Ambassador Lodge, General Harkins, and Mel Manfull (American Embassy) at Tan Son Nhut Airport. (open complete record)
Item #: VA037674
- Lee Baker Collection
- Secretary McNamara and General Harkins. (open complete record)
Item #: VA038297
- Lee Baker Collection
- General Nguyen Khanh with McNamara at Hoa Hao village. (open complete record)
Item #: VA038298
- Lee Baker Collection
- General Nguyen Khanh with McNamara at Hoa Hao village. (open complete record)
Item #: VA038317
- Lee Baker Collection
- Secretary of Defense McNamara came again to Saigon. Man in light suit is Ambassador Lodge. (open complete record)
Item #: VA038334
- Lee Baker Collection
- General Cao showing Secretary of Defense McNamara captured enemy weapons at Ca Mau. General Timmes (MDDG) in background. (open complete record)
Item #: VA038335
- Lee Baker Collection
- General Cao showing Secretary of Defense McNamara captured enemy weapons at Ca Mau. William Bundy (white shirt left), Secretary McNamara, and General Cao. (open complete record)
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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