Community fallout shelters being stocked. Lorries and trucks on road carry supplies. View of Red Ball trucking line truck. Aerial, exterior view of United Nations Building in New York City. View inside United Nations building. United Nation Ambassador Stevenson asks the USSR delegate whether there are missile bases on Cuba. President Kennedy signs Quarantine order on what materials may be shipped to Cuba, to begin 10am on October 24, 1962. B-52 bombers take off, taking 24 hour missions. Interceptors and fighters take off. Views on aircraft carriers with fueling and takeoff operations on flight deck. Radar dishes and radio communications. U.S. battleship at sea. U.S. intercepts Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed. Reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba. Views of White House. SAC bombers and anti aircraft missiles on 5 to 15 minute alert to handle any critical situation. Interiors of control room inside the Headquarters of American Air Defense Command.
Population worldwide shown waiting for news about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Groups of people watching televisions and listening to radios. Press announcement in front of White House that President Kennedy has received message from Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, saying that Russia will dismantle missile sites in Cuba. Views of various ships in United States fleet. Military band playing at port as wives and children of U.S. military service men return to Guantanamo, hug and greet the service men, and celebrate. View of a small church and citizens entering the church. Americans going to work. Reconnaissance photos showing missiles dismantled, and showing shadow of the photographing aircraft, itself. Soviet ships carrying missiles out of Cuba. American men, women, and children pedestirans walking on sidewalks in the downtown area of a town, past shops and stores. A man entering a building beside a fallout shelter sign. Department of Defense logo is shown at end of film, followed by on screen text, "If our country should ever be attacked by nuclear weapons, people at ground zero would be lost. But millions more, outside these areas of complete destruction, would be spared, only to be imperiled by radioactive fallout. Today, the nation is better prepared to meet this threat, as the community fallout shelter program goes forward. But much work still remains to be done. Cuba may not be the last crisis we'll be called on to face. But let it be the last we'll face unprepared.
A number of officials gather around two principals who both sign a series of documents. All are well-dressed in light weight summer suits and ties. The occasion seems relaxed. One of the signatories jokes and laughs before signing.
A film titled 'The family' shows husband and wife and family members in America in the early 1950s. A woman hanging clothes outside rural or small town house. Boy looks out of window when called by mother. Interiors of the house. Wife talks with husband while having tea at breakfast table. They are joined by an older woman (grandmother), the boy and a girl. Family talking and having breakfast. Girl shows newspaper to father. Man leaves to go to work. Women in homemaker or housewife roles of the time doing their routine household work in house and helped by the boy in the family.
Members of a 1950s American family at their places of work and sharing time at home together. Steam locomotive pulling passenger train at high speed past a railroad station, without stopping. A railroad employee arriving at office relieving another employee finishing his shift. The employee engaged in various tasks at the rail office. He places a package on platform as another high speed passenger train passes. Hills and lake in background. Scene shifts to several boys playing at a swimming hole. One lying on ground, playing a recorder musical instrument, jumps up, waves goodbye to friends, and rides away on his bicycle (past a man using a scythe). Closeup of name: "Gazette Building," on building. The boy arrives there, picks up papers, and rides off again to deliver them in his job as a newspaper delivery boy. Views of town streets and shops. Two women window shop and discuss a sewing machine on display. Change of scene to woman serving at counter in a restaurant. She serves coffee to a customer and carries milk shakes to two boys and two girls at a table. The girls discuss dresses pictured in a magazine. Next, the waitress is seen looking at a fancy dress in a shop window. Next is a classic 1950s image of a family at home in the living room: A mother, father, boy, and grandmother, in their living room at home. Both women do needlework, husband smokes a pipe and reads newspaper, and son reads lying on floor. Father and son start game of checkers, and son blows on his recorder. The housewife suggests getting a sewing machine. Her husband speaks of saving to paint the family house. Mother points out things she could make and save thereby save money. All discuss the matter, and the boy volunteers to contribute some of his earnings to the family, too. Suddenly, the waitress (older daughter in this family) appears showing them her new dress. The father objects to the purchase and the girl leaves. The family is distressed and members try to soothe one another. A phone call causes the mother and father to leave suddenly. They find their daughter distraught sitting alone on bleachers in stadium. They hug her and all leave together. They return to their wood frame home, where grandmother hugs the daughter. The family sits around the kitchen table and reconciles together, with the grandmother dispensing wisdom in the process.
Newsmen and journalists from around the world entering a conference room showing identification cards in the ninety-fifth Press Conference at White House. President Dwight Eisenhower on mike answering questions raised by journalists. A woman journalist asks a question. Reporters writing in notebooks. President speaks about the Constitution of United States of America. Further he says that violence in any form is not acceptable.
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