Interior of a hangar number 8 at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Air Force mechanics perform general maintenance work on Convair B-36 aircraft of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) 6th Bomb Wing, home-based at Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, New Mexico. The mechanics pull an auxiliary heater up on to the wing and start it.
Crew member dressed in heavy flying equipment, wearing back-pack parachute, looking into a scope.View of C-124 starting an engine. Momentary glimpse of C-124 on taxiway. (Appears to be C-124C, with nose radar, but wingtip heaters are not evident.) Views of Walker Air Force Base from C-124 taking off. B-36s parked on the airfield.
Mission No. 45 of human downward ejection test. Three USAF (United States Air Force) planes B-47 Stratojet, F-94 Starfire and T-33 Shooting Star. Test subject and seat ejected from plane. Seat and test subject separates. Parachute opens and parachutist descends. Footage is from U.S. Air Force aero-medical studies.
Portrait of Jacqueline Cochran at United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. Mr. Floyd B. Odlum, husband of aviatrix Miss Jacqueline Cochran, seated. Mr. Odlum speaking.
U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson speaks at the National Legislative Conference in San Antonio. He talks about the U.S. proposal for peace in Vietnam. He expresses the desire to negotiate with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh and other Chiefs of States. He is prepared to send Secretary Rush to meet Vietnamese officials. Conference attendees seated during the speech. He states Hanoi's refusal of the peace offer, as a result of which the war in Vietnam continues.
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia during a visit to Washington DC. The King steps from a car. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson welcomes King Faisal. Several Saudi members of the Kings party stand by a rope cordon. A flag of the United States in the background. President Johnson, with Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, beside him, speaks into a microphone and greets King Faisal. He also talks about U.S. warm relations with Saudi Arabia. The King stands near him. Dignitaries in the background.
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