Graduation Ceremony for graduates of U.S. Army Military Police training course at Fort Gordon, Georgia, United States. Military Police (MPs) are honored by officers in a program. Friends and families seated in chairs to attend the outdoor program. Flags flying at the ceremony include some from other nations. Military Policemen on duty. A radion operator and a desk sergeant. An MP seated in a car. He talks over a telephone. The car is driven on a Military Base road. MPs directing army vehicles in a snow covered area. MPs carry and injured soldier in the snow. Change of scene to the Archway into Caserma Passalacqua, Verona, Italy, site of U.S. Army SETAF (Southern European Task Force) Headquarters. A 1956 Chevrolet Military Police car drives out of the SETAF gate with an American Military Policeman and an Italian Policeman inside. They drive and then park near the Verona Roman Arena and Palazzo Barbieri. They then patrol on foot together. Street scenes of Verona in that area.
Ford trucks pass along a road in Michigan. A Ford truck loaded from N&W railroad car. Trucks pass along a snow covered road. A pick up truck and a tank truck drive past in the background. Street cars in the background.
News about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. is announced to the audience at Carnegie Hall (881 Seventh Avenue (at 57th Street) New York City United States) in New York. Scene from the stage during a gala event with Duke Ellington performing excerpts from his second "Sacred Concert" together with the Tougaloo College Concert Choir. Concert sponsor Robert Moses gives the news of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- African American clergyman, activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement -- in Tennessee. Gasps of shock and awe are heard from the people gathered in the hall hearing the news.
A rocket sled speeds up with explosives in Syracuse, New York. Harry Bull, a 21-year old university student, stands near a rocket sled. A large crowd gathers to see Harry Bull. He gets into the rocket sled. Explosives seen on either side of the rocket. A man assists him in donning goggles. Harry Bull is greeted by a woman. A smoke cloud rises from the explosives as the rocket speeds up over snow.
Sportsmen play a game of water-ski polo in Winter Haven, Florida. People in a boat. A man standing on the boat signals. A team of sportsmen play a game of water-ski polo. The sportsmen standing on surf-boards hit a ball. They pass the ball to team members.
An ace glider ace breaks a record for flight in Manhattan area in New York. Wolf Hirth, German expert and partner of American soaring champion Hawley Bowlius in a glider. Vehicles move on a road in the foreground. The glider takes off. The pilot soars above Riverside and the unfinished Hudson Bridge for 50 minutes. People see the glider during the flight. The glider lands after getting orders by the police so that traffic could be released. People move towards the glider after the landing. The pilot comes out from the glider. Several officials talk to Wolf Hirth.
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