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Collection Structure Overseas Weekly photographs >  Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14622
Item Title Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14622
Collection Title Overseas Weekly photographs
Publisher Overseas Weekly
Date Created November 09, 1968
Description Contact sheet containing 16 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - currency - story printed - Nov/ 9 / 68 / Pac. NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: ID sheets for MPC conversion story - #1 in sequence - 2 shots Sfc Robert Seay, surrounded by over a cool million in defunct MPC. 4 shots Sfc Seay, up to his neck in currency. 2 shots Pfc Bruce Lerit (left) and Sfc Seay (right) with shopping baskets full of money. 6 shots, various poses of Lerit playing with money. Sheet #2 in sequence - 4 more shots Seay up to his neck in money. 3 shots Lerit ditto. 2 shots GI counting a bundle by hand, a good counter can count $1,000,000 in 10's in an 8 hour shift. Sheet #3 in sequence - 2 shots of armed guards at Long Binh on C-day. 3 shots of MP and Vn cops searching car on Long Binh C-day. 2 shots MP searching truck leaving Long Binh (for what, I don't know). 1 more shot searching car on Long Binh. 6 shots of line outside plaza BEQ, where a lot of money was converted in Saigon. Note sign that says …Agent of US Treasury. 5 shots of exterior of San Francisco bar where shooting took place -- see story on Bar Girl Killing in last packet.
Subject(s) Military assistance, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Language(s) English
Format Still Image
Medium contact sheets
Record Number 2014c35.331
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