Baseball's defending champs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, get ready for 1964 baseball season at their spring training camp in Vero Beach Florida. Billboards outside the stadium. Players charge onto field. Shots of top Dodger pitchers Johnny Podres, Don Drysdale, Ron Perranoski and Sandy Koufax warming up their arms, with palm trees in background. Manager Walter Alston stands by the batting cage as a succession of Dodger hitters -- Jim Gilliam, Wally Moon, John Roseboro, Ron Fairly, Willie Davis and Tommy Davis -- hit baseballs and run to first base. Shot of U.S. flag and a smaller flag reading "Dodgers World Champions" flying from flagpole in strong wind.
Opening scene shows a group of drum majorettes marching in the 1964 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Camera views alternate between spectators lining sidewalks and the marchers. Some spectators hold young children up so they can see. Several clowns are seen in bright costumes. A huge balloon float flies overhead, tethered by marchers. A float from the Radio City Music Hall carries several women dressed in white costumes, who wave to the crowd. A huge Donald Duck balloon sails high above the street. A Humpty Dumpty float is seen. Children watch intently from sidelines. An elaborate special car (The Koach,created by Barris Kustom Industries) carries cast members Ed Gwynne (Herman) and Al Lewis (Grandpa) of the Munster family television show. Spectators holding balloons as they watch the parade. The climax of the parade is a huge float carrying Santa Claus past the Macy's flagship store, at 151 West 34th Street, where marching bands line both sides of the street in front of the store entrance, to greet Santa.
Opening scene shows ticker tape parade for U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur underway in New York City on April 20, 1951. General MacArthur waves to parade goers from back of an open car. Scene shifts to funeral procession for General MacArthur on April 11, 1964, in Norfolk Virginia. Honor guard accompanies his caisson. Mourners including his wife Jean MacArthur and son Arthur MacArthur IV walk in a procession during the funeral ceremony. The casket of General MacArthur covered by a U.S. National Flag.
Newsreel clip highlighting game 7 of baseball's 1964 World Series. Shot of small Cardinals flags. Stands of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis filled to capacity. Cardinals score when in fourth inning when wild throw to first base allows Ken Boyer to score. Mel Stottlemyre pitches to Dal Maxvill but Cardinals pull a double steal, allowing Tim McCarver to score. Maxvill singles to right, scoring another run. Later in the game, Ken Boyer hits home run to left field, putting Cardinals on top 7-3. Final score would be 7-5, giving the Cardinals their first world championship since 1946.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 4, 1964, announcing that he is ordering U.S. military forces to respond to an incident involving hostile action by North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin. View of the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Constellation (CV-64) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam. Next, pilots are seen walking on flight deck of the carrier,USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14). Behind them are A-3B Skywarriors of VAH-4 "Fourrunners," Det. B (tail code "ZB"). One displays BuNo 142255. Clear view, from another aircraft overhead, of a U.S. carrier-based Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircraft diving and firing a rocket at a target in North Vietnam and pulling out over hills afterwards. View of another rocket headed toward a target in hills, followed by fairly close views of an A-4 making another attack. U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert MacNamara, broadcasting that "We seek no wider war."
Views of what would become the Astrodome in Houston Texas while under construction in 1964. Aerial shots show the current, open-air stadium of the Houston Colts baseball team (soon to be renamed the Astros) and the new domed stadium being built a short distance away. Announcer notes the structure covers nine and a half acres. Views of the translucent roof. Views of construction crews working inside the unfinished stadium, which at this point has no grass or turf on the playing field and none of the seating installed. Man in hardhat speaks into walkie-talkie. Worker lifts beam on crane. Welder works on pipe.