United States Congressmen including Senator Edward Kennedy visit refugee camps in South Vietnam. Edward Kennedy talking to the South Vietnamese. South Vietnamese refugees and youth gathered to watch the visitors. Banners hang in the air. Native children wave the United States flags. Boxes of supply and aid from the United States. A center at Hoakhanh near Danang Military Base shelters civilians driven away from their homes by Vietcong. (Vietnam War period).
Iconic British pop band “The Beatles” is awarded the MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire). Crowds of teenage fans stand outside the Buckingham Palace in London. Shrieking fangirls jumping, trying to get a glimpse of their idols as police held them back. The Beatles arrive at the palace in John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce. The pop group is invested with the 'Most Excellent Order' of the British Empire for their economic contribution to the United Kingdom. It was the first time that the MBE was bestowed upon "pop stars". The Beatles- John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison- hold their medals. Audience cheers and waves. Cameramen take photographs. Some fans run after John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce as it drives away outside the Buckingham Palace.
A view of Molybdenum mines in Canada. Trucks and cranes at the mines. Smoke rises due to blast in the mines. Equipment used for mining. The ore is processed. Workers in the plants. The molybdenum is packed in drums for export to steel plants in other countries.
Isaac Papke gets ready for a swim from Farallon Island to a beach near San Francisco's Golden Gate. He swims in water. A Doctor keeps a check on him from a patrol boat. He is watched by men aboard through binoculars. After fifteen hours of swimming he is advised by his Doctor to get aboard the boat. Isaac Papke with his wife on the boat.
A view of railway tracks with mountains and trees on the sides. A Steam locomotive train arrives. Men bend down and inspect the engine. They get down on the tracks from the platform and look underneath the engine. Another train in the background. Passengers carry luggage in the railway station. Stalls at the station. Van stands outside the railway station. A street corner in Paris. A car on a street. Police officers stand on sidewalk in front of tunnel entrance to a building.
Parisian street corner. Policemen stand in front of tunnel entrance to building. Cars pass on a street. Automobile on flat bed wagon being pulled by horses. Pedestrians stand on pavement. Several pedestrians pass by. Pedestrians pass in front of an iron gates of the Ministry of Interior and Hotel de Beauvau, on Place Beauvau, Paris. A uniformed guard stands in front . Several men enter the building. Cars and buses pass by. At train station, trainmen bend down and carefully inspect Steam Locomotive engine and driving wheels. Supervisors in suits and ties also look on during the inspection. A long train is seen traveling on tracks beside hills and woods.
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