Shows journalists, Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time Magazine offices in New York. The journalists hold a meeting. Camera focuses on reporter who comments on the President's strategy in Guam vis-a-vis the Japanese.
View of horizon and cloudy skies from a moving vessel in the Pacific Ocean. Guamanian sailors aboard the vessel in conversation. One of the sailors points in a direction. Goods unloaded from a boat at a peer on the Guam Island. View of a native village and Guamanian civilians indulged in various activities. Children are checked at a dressing station. Children study in a classroom. Guamanian naval cadets get training. Guam Militia's Drum and Bugle Corps, march. Guamanian marines carrying American flags march at an academy. Sign, 'Joak Radio Tokyo'. Japanese officers discuss a map. Japanese man prepares a tactical map. On 7th December, 1941 Japanese attack Guam. Guamanian troops on alert. Japanese air raid on Guam. American garrison on Guam is completely destroyed. The news of attack on Guam is headlined in all the major newspapers. Scenes of destruction in Guam. Wounded marines are taken on stretcher. An injured marine is treated at an aid station. (World War II period).
A staff meeting of Journalists, including Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time building office in New York. They discuss President Roosevelt's intention to fortify the island of Guam as a means of dealing with the Japanese, and question position of the U.S. military chiefs on the issue.
Journalists, Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time building office in New York. The journalists discuss the President's position on issues dealing with Guam. Sherrod asks another reporter to comment on what he learned at the Navy Department.
Journalists, Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time Magazine offices. . The journalists hold a staged meeting for the cameras showing different reporters responding to questions about the President's position on fortifying Guam.
United States President Lyndon Johnson arrives in Guam for two-day top level strategy conferences. Crowds gathered at the Guam airport. Sign reads “Hafa Adi L.B.J Welcome to Guam Where America’s Day Begins”. President Johnson and wife Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson disembarks from the Air Force One (SAM 26000) aircraft. Dignitaries greet him at the Guam airport (355 Chalan Pasaheru B224-A, Tamuning, 96913, Guam). He arrives for the conferences with South Vietnam leaders. Crowd gathers at the airport to greet the President. Various South Vietnamese dignitaries welcome the President including Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky.