Brigadier General James Stewart at Macdill Air Force Base in Florida, United States during his two week duty training period. Brigadier General along with other officers comes out of a building at Macdill Air Force Base. He writes on a paper and men stand next to him. He comes out of another building, cars parked outside the building. He walks on the flight line at the base, a hangar in the background. He climbs into the F-4C rear cockpit as photographers click pictures. An Air Force officer at the base.
NASA in the United States launches space probe Ranger VII from Cape Canaveral launch pad LC-12 for a mission to photograph the surface of the moon. The space probe Ranger VII during its launching aboard an Atlas missile. View of some of the more than 700 photographs of the moon's surface taken by the cameras on the space ship.
Airman Phillip Clark is honored in Texas,United States. Base Commander Major General Robert Stillman honors Airman Phillip Clark as the top trainee. Fellow airmen march past during parade at the Lackland Air Force Base (AFB). Commander Stillman and Airman Clark on the reviewing stand. Airman Clark gets in the U.S. Air Force T-33 Shooting Star jet trainer aircraft. The aircraft takes off from the Kelly AFB. Airman Clark is greeted as guest of honor at the Rotary luncheon. Clark visits the City Hall. He takes his seat as the honorary mayor of San Antonio,Texas.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson visits the Pentagon in Virginia, United States. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara wait in the basement of the Pentagon for the arrival of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. President Johnson arrives in a car and is greeted by Gilpatric and McNamara. People look on. President Johnson and dignitaries walk through a corridor.
Jefferson Thomas standing against the wall in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. Bell rings and the hall fills with students changing classes, including African American and white students. Scene shifts to Elizabeth Eckford, while a student at Central High, and then to her at Central State College, in Ohio, where she is seen moving about the campus buildings and grounds. Scene flashes back to 1957 where she is seen with others entering Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas, under U.S. Army protection during civil rights movement. Scene returns to Central State College, where students stand in a circle and sing their Alma Mater song.
Jefferson Thomas, one of the African-American students part of the Little Rock High school segregation controversy walking amongst students in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. The hall is filled with students changing classes. Thomas climbs staircase holding the bannister. A white student courteously tries to help him find his way. He walks down a hall and looks at teacher and students in a classroom. Scene shifts to years earlier, showing Thelma Mothershed, another of the Little Rock Nine African-American students, in a similar classroom at Central High, and then rapidly to her walking along a hallway, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. She speaks of teaching and children, as scenes show her with children in school settings. She is also seen in a dressmaking class. Scene reverts back to her at Central High in Little Rock.