Members of an Aviation Cadet band play as others dance with enlisted women airmen during time off in the U.S. Air Force Aviation Cadet Training program at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
View from rear of formation of U.S. Air Force Aviation Cadets marching in formation at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Their barracks and the base water tower are seen in the background. Scene shifts to a USAF T-33 jet training aircraft in flight. The aircrraft rolls over to the left and dives toward the ground below.
Artist impression of the House of Representatives as the United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Images of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. African-American student, victim of the Lamar High School School Bus Attack, listens to Frank Jackson, the attorney defending him, as he lectures him about the history of African-American rights and freedom. Off camera, Jackson quotes the 14th Amendment, saying, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Image of Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. Off camera, Jackson quotes Tillman's comment about "virus of equality..." Artist impression of Black Americans in court during Reconstruction. Students inside the school bus on their way to Lamar High School School before bus attack. Image of Black-Americans inside a moving bus during the 1960s-1970s. Jim Crow signs seen, including a sign reading “White only Ladies Rest Room”. Image of a doctor standing in a door labeled “COLORED” while talking to patient with baby. Image of door with sign that says “White-Trade”. Image of door with sign that says “Colored-Trade”. Image of President Rutherford Hayes. Fire burning. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members in costume hanging (lynching) a Black American. Man menacingly holds a bat and says “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. A view of the United States Supreme Court. Artist Impression of Homer Plessy refusing to move from the White people coach to the Jim Crow train coach in 1896. “Equal justice under law” engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Artist impression of John Marshall Harlan, former Attorney General of Kentucky and great dissenter of cases that restricted civil rights such as “Plessy v. Fegurson”. “But until a majority of judges on the Supreme Court would agree, Black Americans would find little justice” says Frank Jackson.
A group of British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots wearing flight jackets gather. One of the pilots dances while another smokes a cigarette. RAF personnel look into the sky. A Gloster Meteor jet in flight over field. A Hawker P.1081 flies over air field and then into the sky. Hawker P.1081 banks right while flying over clouds.
A ruined and abandoned factory in a small village in Italy after World War II. A dead tree is seen in the foreground. Wind blows a tattered newspaper in front of the factory’s wire fence. The tattered newspaper is blown as far as the town center. A baker stands in front of a bakery or paneficio. A man leads a horse cart in front of the Italian bakery. Railroad track overgrown with weeds. Sign in abandoned glove factory gate reads “Proibito Entrare” (“Entrance forbidden”). Cobwebs and cogwheels inside an unused machine. A lathe, fabric rolling machine, and various machines are seen in abandoned factory. A dilapidated cashier’s booth with sign “CASSA” (“CASHIER”). Destroyed building of abandoned factory and an intact smokestack next to railroad tanker cars. A nearly abandoned Italian village street. A woman sits outside a shop. An Italian boy and his dog stand beside a booth of an abandoned carousel in deserted town square. A woman walks with a copper jug. Two women, one of them knitting, beside a stall. Other women are seen knitting. A boy plays with toy boat in a town fountain.
Two men in a row boat in Italy harbor. Italian passenger/cargo ship SS Taurinia (ex Vilarosa) docks in harbor. Sailor mooring the SS Taurinia. Italian ship captain gives orders. A tattered Italian Navy flag behind the captain. Ship workers uncover ship's hold. Sailors working on deck. A mustached Italian sailor operates a crane unloading bales of cotton and other goods. An Italian sailor smiles. Marshall Plan shipment from the United States is unloaded from SS Taurinia post World War II.