Flight tests of Ercoupe airplane using auxiliary jet propulsion at March Field in California. The Ercoupe airplane taxis and takes off without jet propulsion. It is piloted by Captain Homer A. Boushey Jr. The airplane taxis and takes off with the jet propulsion.
Civil Rights leader Roy Wilkins condemns the looting and stealing taking place during the riots following Martin Luther King, Jr. He notes that this behavior "desecrates" the memory of Dr. King.
Walter Edward Fauntroy speaks about rioting following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and notes that all should "handle our grief in the spirit of non-violence." He adds that those who are responding violently are expressing dishonor towards King.
A preview of movie production at Mount Hood in Oregon. A building. Actors James Stewart and Julia Adams talk. They are in a ski tow as they give a shot for their film. A man talks over a radio to keep contact with the set. The cast and the crew of the Hollywood movie moves with wagons and horses. Cameramen and team members stand for taking shots. Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lambert give fighting shots.
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."
U.s. Coast Guard crew members run from their hangar to their HH-52 Search and Rescue helicopter, parked on a pier. They don personal equipment and board the helicopter which then takes off. View from the cockpit as the chopper heads toward orange smoke from a flare in the waters close to shore. It lands, close to a man, in the water. View from inside the HH-52 as the rescue crew performs a platform pickup. A crew member deploys a steel grate platform and assists the man onto the platform, from the water.The crew member then folds the platform into the helicopter, which takes off and flies away.
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