The annual meeting of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped in Massachusetts, United States. People gather in the hall. President John F. Kennedy honors the 'Handicapped man of the year', David Hall of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Hall being awarded for devoting his time to traffic safety. People applaud as Hall, disabled after being paralyzed in a traffic accident in 1955, receives the prize.
Activity on deck aboard a commercial fishing boat off the coast of Massachusetts,United States. Crewmen lower fishing gear over the port side..One crewman climbs aloft where he adjusts a turnbuckle and unfurls a pennant to billow in the breeze.Several crewmen retrieve the top of a net from water at starboard and hook up to haul it and its catch aboard.
Frozen sailboats in Boston, Massachusetts. Frozen sailboats at a port. Frozen parts of ship. Men chop off ice from deck and rigging of sailboats.
A film about missile launches in the United States. The American flag at half mast. Troops assembled on a ramp and Brigadier General Harry J. Sands Jr. Vice Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) speaks at the memorial services for the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy on 25th November, 1963. The night launch of an Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) satellite, test no. 6900, using a Delta launch vehicle on 27th November, 1963. The launch of a Centaur II, test no. 5175 on 27th November, 1963. A map of Cape with new name Cape Kennedy.
Turn of the Century immigrants to the United States pose aboard ship. Some wear fez hats. View of clothing industry workers at sewing machines. Picture of Sidney Hillman and his wife, circa 1910. Older garment worker cutting cloth. Clothing workers punching a time clock. Men operating sewing machines. A cutter marking cloth from a pattern. A man sewing button holes on clothing. Old pictures of earlier garment workers. More modern view of unionized clothing workers at sewing machines. A cutter using a machine to cut multiple layers of fabric. Supervisors discussing a sample of sewn product. numerous views of men and women sewing garments. Flashback to earlier times of workers marching to demand a union contract. Union member distributing literature at a factory gate. Small group of union picketers on sidewalk. Union leader speaking to group of women workers in Southern town. Union organizer with bloodied head, smoking cigarette. Striking Workers (mostly women) standing in group outside employment office of Tuf-Nut Garment Manufacturing Company in Little Rock,Arkansas. The striking women being arrested by policemen. Change of scene to closeup of Alabama State policeman smoking cigar. Civil rights marchers during demonstration in Birmingham Alabama on May 7, 1963 during the "Birmingham Campaign" or "Birmingham Movement". Fire fighters in fire engine pumper truck stops near police on street in town and sets up fire hoses to spray high powered water directly at African American civil rights marchers. Civil Rights marchers soaked by high powered water hoses. One protestor or demonstrator tries to run away from the fire hose and is grabbed by two white police men. A protestor takes cover behind a telephone poll as a firehose is directed toward him. A black man converses with two women on a snowy street. Civil Rights marchers of the African American Southern Christian Leadership Conference carrying signs during a demonstration. People fill the area around the reflecting pool by the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. A man and his daughter share time together on a snowy day. Children sledding in the snow. People ice skating on lake in Central Park, New York City. Closing views of early immigrants to the U.S.A.
Deep diving bathyscaphe (deep Boat) Trieste moves underwater in Atlantic Ocean on September 25, 1963, during photography and recovery mission for the submarine USS Thresher (SS-593) that sunk off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Millions of tiny air bubbles seen as Trieste descends. View of dirt or mud stirred on floor of ocean. View of small sea life, sand, small rocks and pebbles as Trieste moves under water. A small asbestos pipe, believed to be from the USS Thresher, is seen on the ocean floor. An Eel fish moves in front of Trieste.
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