The Cold War. President Lyndon B Johnson addresses session of Congress. Maps of Communist countries. Maps of America's allies. Map of Africa. Representative of a nation of Africa addresses the United Nations Assembly. Delegates from Togo watch the speech. Scenes of poverty in area with simple shack homes in Africa. African government officials attend a conference as they work to found new African nations. Map of Cuba. Fidel Castro speaks at microphone. Crowd listens. Another view of Castro giving an address and speaking animatedly. Cameramen record event. Views of ordinary people in Third World countries working in tasks mostly agriculture related. Street scenes in U.S. cities with busy streets with cars and buses, and many pedestrians heading to shops and offices. Wide view of Great Plains in midwest U.S. People walking to church in small town. Aerial view of Queens, Manhattan and East River, in New York City. "New America" shows aerial view of suburbs located in outskirts of city. Street level scene in a vintage early 1960s suburban neighborhood. Boy and girl children in the front yard outside a house in the suburbs with a dog. A U.S. Department of Commerce display clock showing population growth. Doctors in hospital delivering babies. Newborn baby infants and young children seen playing and eating. Close up views of faces of American children, smiling.
Church going in the U.S. People enter various churches. President Lyndon B Johnson, Nelson Rockefeller,Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater speaking. The funeral of slain President John F. Kennedy, shows flag-draped casket on carriage and Kennedy family members walking behind it. Mourners at Arlington Cemetery, as military men from all services hold flag over bier. Washington Monument in Washington DC, and as seen across the Reflecting Pool, from step of the Lincoln Memorial. The Jefferson Memorial and his Statue, inside. The Lincoln Memorial and Statue of Lincoln, inside. The Capitol Building. Shoreline and mountains in the background as seen from water. Yosemite National Park. Scenic views of American landscape with rolling fields, and hills and mountains.Snow covered mountains. Snow covered evergreen forests. Choir sings 'America the Beautiful'
1955 air disasters in the United States. Wreckage of United Air Lines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft (N37559, Mainliner Denver) that was blown up over Longmont, Colorado on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The crash site of United Air Lines Flight, a Douglas DC-4 propline (N30062), in Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming. Dead bodies carried out from wrecked plane. Crowd watches.
U.S. Marines of 'B' Company, 1rd Battalion, 7th Regiment advance in Okinawa. Casualty is assisted by two Marines over ridge. Casualty with shoulder wound receives first aid and is carried away on a stretcher. U.S. Self Propelled howitzers on field. SP howitzer fire. Marines in foreground. Marines move on hillside and SP howitzers fire. (World War II period).
Wounded soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) being carried aboard a British ship for evacuation from Boulogne during the Battle of France in World War 2. Ship in the background. Ambulances stand on the port. Wounded soldiers are carried on stretchers. Other soldiers carry belongings of the wounded.
Carrier activity aboard USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) in the Pacific ocean, during the Korean War. Flight deck of the aircraft carrier. Grumman F9F-2 Panther aircraft of VF-112 on flight deck. An F4U-4B, of Fighter Squadron VF-113, is towed past the F9F-2. An AD4 Skyraider of Attack Squadron VA-115, with bombs under its folded wings, is backed into line on the deck. Deck crew maneuvers F9F-2 into position at side of deck. Star rockets brought on deck by small rocket cart. More views of AD4s with bombs under folded wings. Many AD4s, on the flight deck, with wings folded and engines running or cranking with props turning.
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