President Gerald Ford Meeting Vietnamese Refugees from an Operation Babylift Flight, 4, 5, 1975

President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford meeting with Vietnamese Refugees from an Operation Babylift Flight, medical staff, and volunteers at San Francisco International Airport. San Francisco, California. April 5, 1975. President Ford authorized the evacuation of thousands of Vietnamese orphans to the United States on April 3, 1975. This evacuation became known as Operation Babylift. The program evacuated more than 3, 000 Vietnamese children throughout April 1975. This video is silent. Excerpt from Naval Photographic Center Film 121129175 (12, 12). This film is in the public domain.