Vice-President of United States Lyndon B. Johnson on a visit to Saigon in South Vietnam. Flags of both United States and South Vietnam seen. He is greeted by a flag waving crowd. Lyndon B. Johnson speaks from open top car. Cameramen takes photographs. He inspects Honor Guard and boards MATS (Military Air Transport Service) plane.
Newsreel 'Missile failure, Atlas explodes, capsules intact'. In a test before a man is launched into space an Atlas Missile is fired. The missile is fired from Cape Canaveral with the Mercury astronaut capsule in its nose. A defect in the guidance systems causes it to go off course. The missile is destroyed but the capsule is successfully parachuted on earth. Men stand near the intact capsule.
A conference of Joint Military Armistice Commission in Korea. The Koreans and the Americans sit in uneasy peace. The meeting gets over. A brawl breaks out between the two as a Korean guard slapped an American's face. A fight between the U.S. soldiers and Koreans on the road.
Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, visits the United States with her children. The aircraft lands at Idlewild Airport (Present day John F. Kennedy International Airport - Queens, NY 11430, USA). Princess Grace climbs down the air stair of their Pan Am (DC-8-32 “Clipper Caroline”) plane with her two children, Princess Caroline and Prince Albert. A lady-in-waiting, likely Madge Tivey-Faucon, accompanies Princess Grace and her children on the trip. A huge crowd including photographers and press greets her.
President John F. Kennedy in a meeting with former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon . Governor Nelson Rockefeller called them to back the President in the Cuban crisis. The cameramen take photographs.
A helicopter in flight over the submarine. Submarine USS Patrick Henry surfaces in the Atlantic Ocean, off Scotland, after setting a new underwater cruising record of 66 days and 22 hours. The submarine carries a full load of sixteen Polaris missiles. Crew seen aboard the nuclear submarine, as it makes its way into Holy Loch, Scotland. Some antinuclear protestors demonstrate against the ship from canoes. View of the Patrick Henry, tied up next to the Submarine Tender Proteus, where it is being resupplied.
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