The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first airplane flight in the United States. Still photo of the NCR Auditorium filled with people. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds, aviator Orville Wright, the founder of Ford Motor Company Henry Ford and American inventor Charles Franklin Kettering present. A still photo of Orville and Wilbur Wright.
United States ships at pier in Norfolk, Virginia. A 'WTAR' TV cameraman behind his camera photographs USS Northhampton (CC-1) (formerly CLC-1) with crew manning the rail while the ship is at dock. Views of USS Northampton with crew awaiting arrival of President Kennedy and his party. Military personnel and members of press on the pier for the arrival of President of the United States John F. Kennedy at the Naval Operating Base in Norfolk. Superstructure of USS Northampton. President Kennedy goes aboard submarine USS Thomas A Edison (SSBN-610) surrounded by officers. President Kennedy in a tubular type elevator. The elevator is lowered slowly. President Kennedy disappears below decks in the special elevator. President Kennedy comes up the special elevator to the weather deck. An officer and two enlisted personnel stand near the special elevator. A U.S. Navy Piasecki HUP-3 helicopter hovers in the background over water. President Kennedy gets out of the elevator and walks over the deck. Ford Thunderbird cars on the pier.
United States ships at Norfolk, Virginia. USS Thomas A Edison and USS Northampton tied up to a pier. A mobile crane removes one of the brows from USS Northampton. The ship gets underway away from the pier with President of the United States John F Kennedy aboard it. USS Northampton backing out from the pier. A harbor tug boat moves around the bow of the USS Northampton to assist the cruiser out into a stream. USS Northampton underway in Hampton Roads after leaving the pier. Merchant ships in the background. The cruiser moves away. The sun setting in the background. A part of pier in the background.
Decommissioning of Navy Service School in the United States. Barracks and a flag pole on a parade ground. Sailors lined up for a review. A flag raising and lowering ceremony. A flag at half mast. Sailors fold the flag. Officers, one holding the folded flag, and the president of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford II review trainees. The trainees and the officers march off the field. A navy officer presents a flag to Henry Ford II. The trainees board buses.
American flags at half-mast in the United States. The American flag at half-mast at the replica of the Independence Hall, now the Henry Ford Museum (20900 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI 48124, United States). A flag atop the Ford Motor Company building. Cars driven from the building. A flag atop a chapel. A flag atop the Dearborn Public School building.
Founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford's funeral in Dearborn, Michigan. Aerial view of residential areas, countryside and a large estate. Aerial view of Greenfield village and Ford Airport. Aerial view of highways and automobile traffic. Spectators lining a roadway.
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