The Friedrichstrasse checkpoint also known as "Check Point Charlie" along the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany. A sign board reads: 'Checkpoint Charlie'. Men stands near the sign board and discuss amongst themselves. Buildings along the sides of the street. Two girls being checked by the West Berlin policemen. Girls cross the border into East Berlin. Tourists look into East Berlin. Other sign board reads: 'You are leaving the American sector'.
The Brandenburg Gate or Brandenburger Tor (Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany) as seen from behind barbed wire fence in Berlin, Germany. A snowman on the ground in West Berlin. Trucks passing on the street. British soldiers on guard at the border. They discuss amongst themselves.
Operations New Life - Operation New Arrival at Harrisburg International Airport (1 Terminal Dr, Middletown, PA 17057, United States) in Pennsylvania, United States. Red Cross ambulance as a helicopter hover over airfield at Harrisburg International Airport. Two military policemen stand in the foreground. License plate on the car of the Governor of Pennsylvania. Northern Lebanon high school band. Spectators seated in chairs and as the band plays music. “Northern Lebanon” written on the drum.
Activities during Operations New Life, Operation New Arrival program for Vietnamese refugees arriving in the United States. An American Airlines airplane lands and taxis at the Harrisburg International Airport (1 Terminal Dr, Middletown, PA 17057, United States) in Pennsylvania. '747 Luxury liner' and 'American' written on the airplane. Governor Milton Jerrold Shapp walks up the ramp of the airport. He greets the Vietnamese refugees. The refugees disembark from the airplane. Pennsylvania State Policemen standing at the airport. Refugees being greeted by Mr Richard Friedman. Refugees get off the airplane. Governor Shapp shake hands with a child.
United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Washington DC, United States. The meeting of the Congress for the signing of the bill. View of car and other vehicle traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, looking toward the Old Post Office building (1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004) and the U.S. Capitol building beyond. The exterior of the Capitol building with American flag waving on flagpole. People walking on the street in front of the building. People gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The exterior of the White House. Officials gather inside the building. U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson seated at a desk. The President addresses the legislators and people and talks about civil rights, justice, and peace for the people. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Bill. Lawmakers and guests gather around him. He gives signing pens to Everett Dirksen and Hubert Humphrey, and then to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Several pens are given to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to be given to various members of the Kennedy family.
Russian cosmonaut Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov enters space capsule of Voskhod-2 rocket in the Soviet Union. The spacecraft launch as it leaves the launching pad. Animation (only) depicts the activities of the cosmonaut and the co-pilot, and Cosmonaut Leonov on first manned spacewalk with the help of a life line attached to the spacecraft. No actual spacewalk images are shown. Narrator alludes to 1960's "space race" between astronauts of the United States and the Soviet Union, saying, "If this spectacular accomplishment is all that is claimed, Russia has moved ahead of the U.S. once more in the race for the moon."
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