Newly appointed President of United States Lyndon Johnson rides on a horse back at his ranch in Texas. The presenter states that Johnson often moves about his ranch in a car,electric go cart or on a horse back praising his cattle. The news presenter speaks about a unique feature of the LBJ ranch i.e. the Friendship Walk. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson along with their elder daughter Lynda shows the area to the interviewer. It has the names of all the famous people engraved on the stones in the lawn who have visited the ranch. The interviewer thanks the Johnson family for their kind cooperation and bids them adieu. The presenter informs that this informal visit at the LBJ ranch was shot weeks before the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy.
A newsreel titled 'Death penalty for A-spies Rosenbergs get top penalty in atomic trial'. Convicts Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell, accused of revealing atomic secrets to Russia, emerge from the police paddy wagon van at Foley Square court house in New york in United states. Policemen accompany them as they enter the building. Wife of Julius Rosenberh, Ethel Rosenberg arrives at the court as people throng outside the building. Police brings Ethel's brother and a government witness David Greenglass to the court. After the verdict photographers take pictures of judge Irving Kaufman who sentenced the Rosenberg couple to death in electric chair while Sobell was sentenced to thirty years of imprisonment. A U.S. Marshal paddy wagon carrying the convicts leaves the court as photographers click pictures.
Nearly 75,000 New Yorkers throng Broadway to watch French President Vincent Auriol’s welcome parade towards the City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States). Parade of soldiers carrying flags of United States and playing drums, march on lower Broadway. At the New York City Hall, Mayor Vincent Richard Impellitteri confers a Distinguished Service scroll on the French president. Impellitteri is awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Auriol. Photographers take pictures of the ceremony. The French president and the Mayor Impellitteri along with other officials come out in the gallery of the hall and shake hands as soldiers parade down the street and crowds cheer them on.
A big haul of turtles is brought onshore in Florida in United States. Turtles are taken off from the boat as they are taken away on their backs to the cannery. A kid sits onto a turtle's back whereas another turtle moves close to a tin of turtle food.
Newsreel titled Big Top - Celebrities join in heart fund benefit. Mrs. Impelliteri, chairman, heads the fund raiser show at Madison Square Garden in New York. Various stage and radio artists and sports persons like Lauritz Melchior, Jerome Collins, Jack Dempsey, Weary Willie clown Emmett Kelly and Dorothy Kilgallen lend their talents to raise funds for the heart foundation. Artists dressed as clowns entertain the audiences. Female artists sitting on elephant back perform acrobatics. Jimmy Durante laughs at an act. Celeste Holm rides on an elephant Male artists perform acrobatics as they hang from swings. The show raises a total of 190 thousand dollars for the heart fund.
Part of a documentary titled 'Zehn minuten in Amerika' (ten minutes in America This segment deals with the city of New York. It )shows renewal of housing in New York City, in the United States. Buildings and market area is seen as workers demolish buildings with a machine. Front hoe loader picks up the wreckage and takes it away. Workers with their caps on work at a multi storied construction site. A worker with his mask on does wielding work as others lay bricks. Women cook and decorate flowers in a vase as men draw engineering drawing, work as mechanic in garage and do household work in the kitchen.
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