A reenactment shows a man pressing a switch to open an electric door in United States. He presses the switch and moves out from the door. View of a busy press room for a newspaper, filled with newsmen and reporters. A number of men work on their typewriters in the room. A man speaks over phone as other men continue to type.
President Harry S. Truman along with members of his cabinet aboard his new yacht Williamsburg at Washington Navy Yard in United States. Among those seen on the yacht are: Secretary of Agriculture, Clinton P. Anderson; Secretary of Commerce, Henry A. Wallace; Secretary of Interior, Harold L. Ickes; Attorney General, Tom C. Clark; and Secretary of Labor, Lewis B. Schwellenbach; In separate segment, Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal, presents Admiral William F.Halsey , who is about to retire, with certificate of promotion to Five Star rank of Fleet Admiral. Witnessing are Chester W. Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations, and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. In a third segment, President Truman is seen pinning a medal on Henry Morgenthau, who has just resigned as Secretary of the Treasury. The President also presents and award to another official.
A dramatized enactment showing a North Vietnamese interrogator sitting at a desk as he lights up a cigarette. He interrogates a Prisoner of War standing before him. (Camera slate indicates 'Operation Homecoming,'). A guard hits the prisoner several times with a club in the stomach and throws him on the floor during interrogation, for not cooperating with the Interrogating Officer.
An enactment shows a North Vietnamese guard hitting a prisoner of war during interrogation in a small room. Guard hits the prisoner in his stomach with a club, kicks him in the stomach and throws him against the wall. An interrogator sits at a desk and smokes a cigarette as he interrogates the prisoner standing before him.
An enactment showing a North Vietnamese Interrogating Officer sitting at his desk as a guard brings a Prisoner of War for interrogation. Officer asks questions and prisoner replies to them. Officer takes down notes. He also gives some books to the prisoner. Guard takes away the Prisoner of War.
An enactment shows Captain Hamilton J. McCubbin and Dr. Walter Goffman in a discussion in United States. The two of them discuss a matter of grave importance.
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