Winston Churchill walks with a retinue in Cuba during his tour of the country as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and after World War II. Winston Churchill, smoking a Cuban cigar, climbs with his wife, Clementine, and his retinue. Churchill puts on his hat and waves quickly in a terrace. Winston Churchill uses a pair of binoculars as he sits beside his wife while they watch a horse race. Churchill exits the grandstand. Winston Churchill smokes a Cuban cigar as he walks with his retinue. Winston Churchill is photographed. Churchill enters a Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 limousine, before the car drives off. Winston Churchill, with cigar in his mouth, gets off the car. Winston Churchill shakes hands with United States military officers before he and his wife boards a United States Naval Air Service Bomber (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress).
Artist impression of Dred Scott, an African American slave from the 19th century. Artist impression of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who ruled on Dred Scott’s historic case. A dramatization depicts Dred Scott’s case in the Supreme court in 1857. Dred Scott questions the Chief Justice as he stands in front in the court, saying, "I want my Constitutional rights, I want my freedom in this court." Off camera, the judge says that Scott and his people are considered to be "beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race." Interspersed with the testimony is modern dramatization footage of whites saying, “Damn, we have our rights!” and "they ain't gonna be in my grandson's class!" View of court gavel being slammed. Dred Scott walks away. A view of an empty courtroom. “He ain’t gonna be in my grandson’s class!” a man said, pertaining to the possibility of African-American students studying alongside White students. Artist impression of America’s Founding Fathers and Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson's signature on Constitution of the United States. Close up of words in Constitution noting that African-Americans are equal to "three fifths" of whites.
African-American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to “Cliff”, one of the victims of the Lamar High School Bus Attack in 1970. African-American children lining up in school. Dramatization depicts a mob of angry white residents, one holding a stick in his hand as a club. White woman, wearing headscarf and shades, brandishes a frying pan. Dramatization shows Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). Dramatization shows some of the mob being apprehended by state troopers. African-American students laugh inside the bus. Image of Robert Evander McNair, the Governor of South Carolina from 1965-1971. Attorney Jackson speaks to Cliff about Governor McNair’s dedication to protect African-American children’s rights to go to any school. Images of Governor McNair and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. “ Only when the rights of the constitution are surely in the hands of poor men, as well as rich men, black, brown, red, and yellow men, as well as white men, can the constitution promise justice to share its equal place in law and order,” Attorney Frank Jackson says. Closing Credits.
Title sequence “U.S. Marine Corps”. United States Marine Corps General Alexander Archer Vandegrift speaks about his experience in the Guadalcanal Campaign from his office during World War 2. A battleship fires off Guadalcanal. A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber flying over Guadalcanal. United States marines climb down ship to board landing craft. Boat filled with United States marines sets sail. Landing craft off Guadalcanal. Landing craft with United States marines land on beach. United States marines set foot and advance on Guadalcanal beach. United States marines unload supplies from LSTs. Marines load boxes in bed of Japanese truck. United States marines raise the United States flag on flagpole. United States marines salute to flag. Sign in Japanese reads “Sick Room Entrance”. Captured Japanese soldiers being made to march out of camp. Captured Japanese soldiers sit behind barbed wires under watch by United States marines. Captured Japanese soldiers only wearing white fundoshi, traditional Japanese underwear for adult males. Shirtless Japanese prisoners sitting under guard by American marines. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift narrates his Guadalcanal experience from his office. Close up of crampon attached to shoe for climbing trees. Soldier leaps toward a coconut palm tree and climbs up using crampons while Vandegrift narrates, explaining that the "American fighting man pits his superior intelligence" against the Japanese. United States fleet admiral William Halsey Jr. presents medals to United States marines. Fleet Admiral William Halsey Jr. and General Alexander Patch. Sign for “Hospital Station C-1-Med” on palm tree. View of Hospital Station tent in Guadalcanal. View of gathered United States marines from behind.
Captured USS Pueblo crewmen, Lt. Edward Murphy (USS Pueblo Executive Officer) and Lieutenant Frederick Schumacher (USS Pueblo Operations Officer), both read “confessions” in North Korea during the so-called Pueblo Incident or Pueblo Crisis. Map of USS Pueblo path showing how it trespassed North Korean waters based on North Korean perspective. Murphy notes that at the time of capture, the Pueblo was "7.6 miles from Ryo Do." Schumacher notes, "we were arrested at last by the naval control pact of the Korean People's Army." Image of USS Pueblo. United States President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks as North Korean narrator call him the leader of "the most vicious enemy of the people of the whole world." Various newspapers around the world covering the capture of the USS Pueblo.
A new elementary school opens in Crete, Greece. The flag of the United States can be seen on the right. A plaque detailing the school’s opening year 1962 and important details in Greek. Greek elementary school children clap hands. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) visits the new elementary school during an official visit in Crete, Greece. A Greek teacher teaches young students in classroom. A Greek girl asks a question to her teacher. Greek teacher teaches male students botany inside a school greenhouse. Greek high school students do homework together in library. Greek boy uses book for homework.
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