U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in France. President Eisenhower arrives in France and is welcomed by NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) commander General Lauris Norstad. American flag hoisted. Eisenhower and General Norstad pose as cameramen record the event.
Senator Kennedy and Richard Nixon as Presidential candidates for 1960 elections. Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy addresses the press after conferring with Adlai Stevenson in Hyannisport, Massachusetts. He also meets Vice Presidential candidate Lyndon Johnson and they discuss about the election campaign. Republican candidate Richard Nixon and his running mate Henry Cabot Lodge discuss the campaigning strategy in Washington D.C. Nixon and Lodge sit as photographers take pictures.
International Boy Scouts at a jamboree in Colorado, United States. President Dwight D. Eisenhower makes a 130 mile trip from Denver as he visits the international Boy Scout jamboree. He meets the Boy Scouts. Nearly 56 thousand Boy Scouts from various countries cheer the President as he moves past them in an open car.
Two satellites launched into space by United States space shuttle Discovery. (During STS-51G, three satellites were launched: MORELOS-A, for Mexico; ARABSAT-A, for Arab Satellite Communications Organization; and TELSTAR-3D, for AT&T.) An Arabic news bulletin informs about the launch of Saudi Arabian satellite. Space Shuttle Discovery is shown at ignitiion, launch, and as it takes off from the United States and moves upwards in the sky on June 17, 1985. Men inside the space shuttle include Sultan Salman Al Saud from Saudi Arabia. The men work on controls. A communication satellite after being launched near the earth into outer space. Another satellite launch is shown. A news anchor reads out the news related to the launch of the communication satellites.
United States enters World War I. A map of Europe. Belgian refugees along a road in Europe. Damaged buildings and an explosion occurs. Men aboard a German U boat at a port. An American ship underway at sea. Docks being strafed by Germans and smoke rises. Cars carrying President Woodrow Wilson leaves for the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. Woodrow addresses the Congress and declares war against Germany. People in the streets as they carry banners and American flags. The United States Capitol.
A crowd of German civilians is seen gathered in the Lustgarten. But the scene shifts suddenly to the Berlin Deutsches Stadion (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) in the Grunewald Racecourse. Men in old-fashioned traditional military uniforms march into the stadium, carrying flags of the various German States. They parade around the perimeter of the stadium. Flag of the German Weimar Republic flies over the principal building in the stands. The flag bearers on the field lower their flags, in salute. Next, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, enter the field, leading several military officers, together with a civilian, carrying a sign reading: "I.G.I.D." They are followed by a long line of civilians. Spectators are on their feet in the stands where some men wave their hats and some women wave handkerchiefs. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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