The 1966 University of Texas tower shooting. 24-year-old student Charles Whitman kills 16 and injures 33 persons at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Policemen and security guards take position and try to reach the sniper at the top of the University of Texas Main Building tower (110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705, United States). Students hide and run away from the tower. A large crowd of students and other people gathered following the aftermath of the mass shooting. Shot guns, rifles, revolvers, and other weapons recovered from the sniper who was killed by policemen.
People gather to mourne victims, including 116 children, killed when Half a million tons of coal mining waste (a "tip") collapsed and crashed down a hillside onto Pantglas Junior School, burying both the school and 20 nearby houses in the village of Aberfan, Wales, UK, on October 21, 1966. View of the village, as three British sailors walk downhill on the sidewalk, past mourners walking uphill, on October 27th, to participate in a mass funeral for children who perished. A line of caskets is seen surrounded by flowers. Mourners gather on the side of the hill for the funeral service. Mourners place tributes on a huge cross of flowers laid out on the hillside
Pope Paul VI meets the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsay, in Vatican City. Anglican Church Archbishop Michael Ramsay visits Rome and the Vatican. Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Ramsay sit and talk to each other during their meeting. Pope Paul VI gets up from his chair and greets Archbishop Ramsay with symbolic Kiss of Peace.
Wedding of Luci Baines Johnson in Washington DC. Nineteen years old first daughter of the U.S. President Lucy Bains Johnson weds Patrick Nugent at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (400 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20017, United States). Nuns and civilians watch Luci Baines Johnson and Patrick Nugent outside the basilica. The newlywed couple walks out of a church and the bride waves towards her friends and relatives at the venue. Lucy wears the wedding ring. The couple cuts wedding cake. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson stands by them as they cut the cake.
NASA Lunar Orbiter 2 takes off to photograph areas of the moon, on November 6, 1966.The space ship in space. Scientists work reviewing film and photos of potential landing zones for man's future attempt to land on the moon (stated as a 1970 goal by the narrator), as part of the Apollo program. Next part of clip shows scenes from NASA Gemini missions in 1966. Space walk by astronauts tied with a tether to the space ship. Astronauts docking with Agena Target Vehicles. Astronauts David Scott and Neil Armstrong welcomed after their return from space at conclusion of Gemini VIII (Gemini 8) mission. They emerge from a helicopter and walk on a deck. Narrator mentions that in same year a U.S.-Russian space treaty was signed for disarmament of space.
The Motion Picture Industry Council, including the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Screen Actors Guild, Screen Directors Guilde, Screen Writers Guild, meeting to prepare comments to the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in Hollywood, California. The meeting to draft a letter to Congressman Woods of the HUAC Committee. The chairman of the council, Allen Rivkin, speaks from his notes about the "clear and present danger" to the United States by the threat of communism and subversive elements, and Hollywood's support for stopping the "International Communist Party conspiracy." Association members look on, including Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan.
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