Jayne Mansfield returns from South Vietnam

KRON-TV news footage from February 20, 1967 featuring the arrival at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County of actress Jayne Mansfield (1933-67), who's just returned from a three day visit with U.S. troops in South Vietnam. Sat next to her lawyer Sam Brody, Mansfield 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, recalling: "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." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.

This 16mm color reversal film print was re-scanned in 4K (4096 x 2970) using a Lasergraphics ScanStation film scanner, in November 2024.