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General Hood, Cuban officers and civilians watch air show as USAF pilots give an aeria1 demonstration in Cuba.

USAF Major General Reuben Columbus Hood Jr. visits Cuba during his goodwill tour. General Hood and VIP's. VIP has General Hood's helmet on. USAF Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, a jet trainer aircraft in the background. Several views of dignitaries preparing for demonstration flight. Flight tower in the background. Written on tower: 'Aeropuerto Batista'. Tail section of Cuban B-45. Written on the tail section: Fuerga and Aerea Jercito de Cuba. USAF F-84 Thunderbirds making a fly-by. A group of personnel. Photographers in the foreground. Several of General Hood and Cuban officers exchanging greetings. Severa1 of officers and civilians during the air show.

Location: Cuba
Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071467
Effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II, and early international efforts to control atomic weapons

Film showing city of Hiroshima, Japan, before and after the August 6, 1945 dropping of the atomic bomb over the city in World War 2. Sequence opens on what the narrator says is August 5, 1945, the day before the event (but the footage is likely from before that date). Camera pans over the city of Hiroshima before the atomic bomb destroyed the city. Japanese air raid lookouts are seen on watch for allied bombers. View of atomic bomb detonation as seen from aircraft high overhead (this is actually a view of the Nagasaki blast, not the Hiroshima blast despite narrator's comments). Next, the complete destruction of the city of Hiroshima is seen from camera at low altitude showing the four and one half square miles of the city flattened and burned. A Japanese hospital still functioning, with red cross flag on it. Hospital workers retrieving wounded victims of the bombing. Ambulatory victims clustered in doorways and halls. Shadow image of a large industrial valve wheel burned onto wall behind it. Similar image of a ladder burned onto a wall. The decorative pattern on a woman's dress burned onto skin of her back. Japanese physicians treating victims of thermal and radiation burns. Views of various victims, including some children, and their respective injuries. Scene shifts forward one year, to August 6, 1946. Children are lined up outside a school building, and then seen inside their classroom. Disfiguration and wounds on children resulting from injuries are still evident on the children at their desks. Sequence shifts again, this time to an early United Nations meeting with delegates grappling with the issue of controlling nuclear power and atomic weapons. Closeup view of American delegates, including James F. Byrnes (Secretary of State)and James B. Conant, President of Harvard University in the assembly. Closeups of representatives from South Asian nations. Closeup of USSR delegation, headed by Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov. Signs identifying delegates from Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Bolivia, China. Final sequence shows several U.S. atomic scientists in their respective laboratories, including Enrico Fermi and Vannevar Bush. United States representative to the UN, Warren Austin, speaking about the so-called Baruch Plan, for international control of atomic weapons. (Principal author, Bernard Baruch, is standing behind speaker's left shoulder.) USSR delegation, headed by permanent representative, Andrei Gromyko, who is seen presenting the Soviet plan. View of explosion and mushroom cloud during U.S. Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test in the Pacific.

Location: Hiroshima Japan
Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071635
Admiral Chester William Nimitz, General Richardson, and Admiral Raymond Spruance visit USS Leonard Wood

U.S. Navy fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Admiral McMorris, General Holmes, and other flag officers, are greeted by Coast Guard Captain Merlin O'Neill, Captain of the USS Leonard Wood (APA-12), as they board during inspection tour of ships anchored off Hawaii. (Captain O'Neill is wearing steel helmet.) They pose for pictures on deck. Admiral Nimitz, leaning on railing, converses with Captain O'Neill. Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Spruance, and Major General Holland M. Smith, USMC (wearing helmet) look over the edge of a 20mm gun tub. Army Brigadier General H.B. Holmes is immediately behind them, wearing a garrison cap.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943, November 9
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071669
The body of Douglas MacArthur is taken to Saint Paul's Church and then to MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia.

United States Army General Douglas MacArthur is buried in Norfolk, Virginia. The body of Douglas MacArthur in the America flag draped coffin is brought to Saint Paul's Episcopal Church (201 St. Paul's Blvd., Norfolk, Virginia) for services. Many prominent persons are present for the final rites. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson is represented by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. MacArthur's son, Arthur MacArthur IV accompanies his widowed mother, Jean MacArthur. View of funeral services being conducted by rector in church. From the church the body is taken to MacArthur Memorial for internment. Interiors of the Memorial (the former courthouse in Norfolk). He receives national honors. The people mourn his death. The coffin of MacArthur lying in the MacArthur Memorial.

Location: Norfolk Virginia USA
Date: 1964, April 11
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071762
President Johnson arrives for a baseball match between the Washington Senators and the Los Angeles Angels in Washington.

The 1964 season-opening baseball game at Griffith Stadium in Washington DC. Spectators and fans in the stadium. The seal of the President of the United States. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives to throw out the first pitch at the opening game of the season. Photographers take photos. President Johnson gives his autograph on a ball for a player. The players of the Washington Senators and the Los Angeles Angels play the baseball game. The President watches the game, as the Los Angeles Angels win 4 to 0.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1964, April 13
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071765
Sargent Shriver speaks about equal enthusiasm of Kennedy and Johnson for the Peace Corps during an interview in Washington.

Robert Sargent Shriver is interviewed by Frank Reynolds in Washington. Television journalist Frank Reynolds interviews Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. , Director of the Peace Corps. A world map on a wall in the background. Sargent Shriver talks about enthusiasm of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JK) and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for the Peace Corps. Frank Reynolds questions whether the people of Vietnam can serve in the Peace Corps.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1965
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071801
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