Footage of cold war defense simulation exercise: Airmen post information on displays in a Command Post of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC). View of senior officers in upper tier of NORAD Headquarters Command Center or War Room in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Duty officers communicate by telephone. SAC B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are ordered to take off. Command Post duty officer reports to a General. Red telephone (rotary type) on the General's desk. (NORAD is North American Aerospace Defense Command).
The work of African American civil rights leaders in the United States. Ernest Green, one of the "Little Rock Nine" students, encourages black apprenticeships in building trades. Through his work at the Recruitment and Training Program, or RTP, Inc., in Brooklyn, New York City, Ernie Green reaches out and speaks to young black men in need of jobs. Young black workers without jobs stands outside a fenced area and look in at white men working at a construction site. Young black men unemployed on street corners and in front of shops. African American children on a city street, bundled in coats and walking to school. Ernest Green reflecting on the difficulty for black young men in getting jobs and in feeling welcome in the work force. Two young black men talking on a city sidewalk, looking in store windows, and then talking and doing a multiple step hand shake. Blacks in a classroom coaching young minority men in preparation for a sheet metal or other building trade union qualification test. African American men with construction jobs are seen laying bricks for a new building, working with steel beams, pouring cement, and constructing a building. Black workers install building windows and work with a torch on steel girders.
The work of African American civil rights leaders in the United States. Ernie Green, leader of the Recruitment and Training Program. or RTP, Inc. in Brooklyn, New York, is seen in a meeting with officials. Green and others working to create construction trade training opportunities for young unemployed African American men, and any young man who needs assistance. Black and white students exit an integrated high school. African American men and women stand in a queue to cast their votes in an election as narrator notes increase in black voting. Scenes of African American citizens in voting booths. An African American politician running for office greets voters on the street.
The third Selma to Montgomery protest march during the American Civil Rights Movement. A huge crowd marches holding banners in hands. African American men, women and children and white Americans among the marchers. The crowd marches holding the American flag. Cars parked in the background.
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson tours military bases. U.S. officers and soldiers welcome President Johnson at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas. A board reads 'Welcome Mr President'. The President shakes hands with children. He reviews troops. A fleet of Thunderchief jets flies overhead. President Johnson inspects the Air Intercept Control Area. United States aircraft land on a ship deck.
The Saturn V also called the Moon Rocket takes off on its maiden flight (SA-501), unmanned. Saturn V rocket in launch position. The Moon Rocket takes off from the launch pad leaving behind smoke and fire. A part of Saturn V on water surface after successful splash down. Personnel pull it with the help of a rope.
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