U.S. Cruiser, USS Chester (CA-27) underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A bugler plays into the ship intercom loudspeaker system. A boatswain pipes into it. A sailor sends a message by semaphore with flags.
United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson seeks end to civil strife in the United States. Exterior view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building illuminated at night. Inside view as the President addresses Joint Session of Congress to push a voting rights bill (Voting Rights Act) to end discrimination in voting. Dignitaries and members of the Congress are seated. Next scenes are all from civil rights marches in the U.S. during March, following the March 11 beating death of minister James Reeb. Protestors march on streets all over the country in solidarity with the Selma, Alabama marchers. They carry banners. A banner reads 'We March With Selma'. Another banner says "We Shall Overcome". The people march on streets and carry banners in a Harlem, New York demonstration. The demonstrators gather in large number to pay tribute to Unitarian minister James J. Reeb. Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church (410 Martin Luther King St, Selma, AL 36703, United States) in Selma, Alabama which was a headquarters for the drive for the right to vote. A sign reads 'Brown Chapel'. The people gathered during the campaign. Leader of African American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with other officials. View of protestors in the second Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery on March 9, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr marches with the people for Civil Rights. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King with white ministers, African American and white citizens, and civil right workers marching on the street. The police stand blocking the road at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marchers stand. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to a policeman. The marchers kneel on the street and pray. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King Jr with other officials speaks to the marchers. After praying the marchers turn around and go back to Selma. They cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
The Dutch Royal Family announces the engagement of Princess Margriet to Pieter van Vollenhoven, a commoner, on March 10, 1965. View of the Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, Netherlands. Princess Margriet seated with Vollenhoven on a sofa along with her family. Queen of the Netherlands Juliana speaks to them. Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, Princess Beatrix with her father, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. A sculpture of the four princesses as a gift to their parents. A large group of press photographers walk up to the palace. Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, with a walking stick from a prior ski accident, come out of the palace together. Press photographers take pictures of the engaged couple. Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven stand together in a garden.
Celebrities welcome American actress Constance Bennett back to Hollywood. A party takes place on the set of ‘Madame X’. Cameraman filming the party. Constance Bennett smokes a cigarette. Hollywood actress Lana Turner is accompanied by her husband, Robert P. Eaton. An American actress Sandra Dee with her husband Bobby Darin. Mexican actor Ricardo Montalbán talks to an actress. Hollywood film producer Ross Hunter and his friend Mervyn LeRoy at the party. LeRoy greets Bennett with a kiss. Universal President Milton Rackmill meets Sandra Dee. A Japanese American actress Miiko Taka with actor James Shigeta. A Dutch actor John van Dreelen and an American actor John Forsythe stand together and talks to each other.
Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. U.S. 5th Division Marines near an artillery as they fire at a Japanese emplacement on Mount Suribachi. The marines fire an artillery. Explosion on the mountain. Smoke rises due to explosion. The U.S. Marines fire an artillery. Explosions in the foreground. U.S. Navy ships underway. The marines fire guns on the deck. Explosion in water and water splashes. The marines fire on Mount Suribachi. The marine in prone position fire guns and advance. The U.S. Medial Corps carry a wounded marine on a stretcher. The medics treat the wounded. Dead Japanese soldiers. The marines fire guns. Smoke rises on the mountain. A U.S. Navy dive bomber in flight and drop bombs on Mount Suribachi. The bombers in flight drop bombs. Explosions on Suribachi. The bombers in flight. U.S. Marines advance towards the caves of Japanese soldiers on the mountain. U.S. Marines capture Mount Suribachi. U.S. Navy ships underway. The marines raises U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi.
The Inter American Conference in Mexico. Officials and dignitaries seated around a table during the conference. Mexico Foreign Affairs minister Ezequiel Padilla Penaloza sign the pact. A dignitary from Brazil signs the pact. Representative of Cuba and Peru sign the pact. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. signs the Chapultepec Pact. A finger points out at the signs on the pact. Edward shakes hands with a dignitaries after signing the pact.
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