British passenger ship Canberra at New York harbor. Under President Kennedy's program to promote foreign tourism British liner Canberra arrives at New York harbor carrying 1700 British tourists. The liner at the harbor.
Trotting Championship in New York, United States. Large crowd of spectators gather. The Trotting Championship begins. Spectators cheer the riders as they ride through the race course.
Expansion of the Will Rogers Hospital at Saranac Lake, New York. Exterior of the Will Rogers Hospital. The board of directors gather for an annual meeting. The board of directors led by Chairman Richard Francis Walsh climb down the stairs and inspect new research facilities under patient rehabilitation program. The new research laboratories for conducting studies on all cardiac diseases . Mrs. R J Donnell unveils and inaugurates the new research laboratories named in honor of her husband Robert O'Donnell,a movie pioneer. The board of directors stand near by.
Jet airliner American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Pumpkin Patch Channel of Jamaica Bay in New York soon after takeoff from Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport), bound for Los Angeles. Rescuers and the police inspect the area. The ruins of the crashed Boeing 707-123B on a marshy area and in the Bay. Skin divers board boats to head out and search for bodies. Some bodies of victims are carried away on stretchers.
A ticker tape parade in honor of American astronauts in New York. A large crowd of civilians greet and welcome the astronauts. Astronauts Donald Kent Slayton, Virgil Ivan Grissom, Malcolm Scott Carpenter and John Herschel Glenn Jr. wave as they move in a motorcade. The astronauts arrive at the City Hall for a ceremony. Lord Mayor of Perth attends the ceremony to salute John H.Glenn. American astronaut John H.Glenn Jr. signs the Gold Book. He receives the New York City's Gold Medal of Honor.
German naval training ship Gorch Fock comes into the New York harbor. Three masted German Navy (Deutsche Marine) ship Gorch Fock underway at sea. Cadets lined up on the deck of the Gorch Fock (NATO pennant number A60). The ship comes in at the harbor. Water splashes and the ship in the background.