U.S. President Kennedy speaking at the UN in the United States. Men and children helped out of trucks by U.S. sailors. U.S. troops and tanks moving and firing machine gun, in Korea. U.S. Navy warships underway at sea. Wounded men attended to in hospitals. American engaged in economic assistance program. The Washington Monument in Washington DC. A statue of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln inside the Lincoln Memorial. The Jefferson Memorial and the statue of former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Words spoken by Thomas Jefferson : 'I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man'.
U.S. Air Force U-2 aircraft takes off from runway, and climbs rapidly.Next scene shows interior of a U.S. Air Force photo reconnaissance laboratory where films from U-2 aircraft are developed and are being examined by Air Force photo interpreters. Images of Soviet missile installations in Cuba are seen on the close-up images.
View from aircraft landing at Leeward Point Airfield, Quantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. troops exiting C-135 transport aircraft. U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters charting planned airborne alert missions of SAC bombers, during Cuban Missile Crisis. SAC crews in briefing rooms. Aerial view of a United States Navy nuclear submarine partially submerged. Bomb and missiles being loaded on SAC aircraft. Flight of two F-104 starfighter aircraft taking off. B-52 Bomber taking off. B-47 Bomber landing with drag chute deployed. Ground crewman with lettering on shirt identifying location as Air National Guard Permanent Training Site, Volk Field, Wisconsin. Two F-104s parked. Air Force personnel going in and out of Air Field Headquarters building. Door marked: "Headquarters Air Defense Command." A C-121 Airborne Command aircraft, with large radar hump on top, is seen in flight. A sign reads: " Headquarters Montgomery Air Defense Sector" and Air Force personnel are seen at control stations inside. Sign at Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, reads "Headquarters Tactical Air Command."
A military coup in Argentina. Army and Navy leaders arrive at the government headquarters to decide on the arrest of President Arturo Frondizi in Argentina. Soldiers patrol the streets and guard the buildings. Frondizi being sent to prison in an aircraft. Jose Guido being sworn in as the new President.
Organization of Secret Army in Algeria during the war for its independence. Traffic on a street. Wrecked equipment and damaged buildings after an OSA attack. Damaged furniture in a house and a sign reads 'OAS'. Traffic moves on the street.
An underground tunnel in Berlin, Germany. An apartment in East Berlin near the Berlin Wall. “Heidelberger Str.” Street sign behind the Berlin Wall. A sign reads 'You are leaving the American sector' at Checkpoint Charlie. An underground tunnel leading to West Berlin where Heinz Jercha was shot dead for helping East Berliners escape. Underground tunnel at Heidelberger Strasse 75 at the sector border between Berlin-Treptow and Berlin-Neukölln. The East Berlin police find a stairway leading to the tunnel. A woman walks out of a door. Berlin Wall separating East and West Berlin.