Coverage of Major Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr in New York City and his 34-hour orbital flight. Major Cooper speaks. Scenes of parade showing small child waving American flag. Navy and AF flights marching and fireman putting up flags. Cooper with dignitaries. Cameramen shoot films and pictures. City Hall seal and bunting. Intercut with cheering crowds, policeman with barricade and fireman with hook and ladder put up flag and make arch over street. City Hall dome. The attendees include Mrs. Trudy Cooper, Mrs. Susan Wagner, Vice president Lyndon B. Johnson and Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Major Cooper acknowledges cheering spectators and signs City Hall guest book in front of New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States). Crowd and high vantage viewing point. 22 May 1963
The 1963 Belmont Stakes Derby in the New York Aqueduct Racetrack (110-00 Rockaway Blvd, Jamaica, NY 1142) of Queens, New York. Crowd watches. Horses including Chateaugay, Braulio Baeza, Willie Shoemaker, Bonjour, and Candy Spots run in the Kentucky Derby. Audience cheers them. Chateaugay wins the Belmont Stakes and 100,000$ price money. Candy Spots comes second.
United States President John F Kennedy addresses General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. President Kennedy addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations- September 25, 1961. “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” President Kennedy said. Dignitaries arrive in Moscow. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the United States, Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister and Alec Douglas Home, British Foreign Minister signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev claps with others on the signing of the Treaty. President John F Kennedy signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at White house, Washington DC. Dean Rusk seen with other Senators.
View of audience watching A.A.U. Games in New York. Athletes racing on a running track. Athletes jumping over horizontal bars. Crowd clapping and cheering. Russian athlete Igor Ter-Ovanesyan sets an indoor mark in the broad jump with a leap of 26 feet, 6.5 inches. Next view is of, athletes on mile run. Jim Beatty wins mile run with 3 minutes and 59 seconds of time.
View of Gary Clarke, Suzanne Pleshette and Richard Chemberlain at Photoplay Magazine Awards giving ceremony in New York. Other artists including Bette Davis sitting, having drinks at ceremony. Gary and Suzanne cutting a cake. Photographers taking pictures. Gary Clarke, Suzanne Pleshette, Bette Davis and Richard Chamberlain holding awards and posing for the photos.
View at Westminster Kennel Club's event of Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York. Many varieties of dogs walking. Crowd watching the show. For the first time a Springer spaniel is best in show at the Westminster kennel club dog show event. Wakefield's Black Knight, the new top dog, the new best dog is a Black Knight. Crowd applauds. Photographers taking photos.