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 large group of unemployed people in New Jersey march during Great Depression. Banners read 'We want immediate relief'. Unemployed citizens take over the State House in Trenton, New Jersey. Unemployed men sitting in the State House. The men sit in the house till the Legislators promise relief aid. From an April 27, 1961 newsreel depicting events 25 years earlier.
From an April 27, 1961 newsreel depicting events 25 years earlier. A pusher plane twenty-five years ago when aviation was in it's adolescence. United States government looking for a safe and small plane. The sound proof pusher plane is chosen as the best by the Commerce Department. The small, twin-boom aircraft in flight. Two men seated in the plane. The plane takes-off. A man seen near a Nemeth Parasol "Umbrella plane." Nemeth Parasol aircraft in flight. Narrator says the plane is a foreshadow of delta-swept wing of today.
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