Pope Pius XII is seen with New York's Joseph Francis Cardinal Spellman before the former’s death. A large crowd assembled in Rome. The body of Pope Pius XII lies in state at St. Peter's Basilica (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). Crowds pass and pay their last respects. Two Vatican Guards stand by the bier. Scene shifts to crowds filling the St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. The College of Cardinals meets to elect Angelo Cardinal Roncalli who takes on the name Pope John XXIII. Church bells peal. Pope John XXIII stands and blesses the huge crowd from the balcony.
President Lyndon B Johnson gives a speech at the John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218, United States) in Baltimore. He talks about U.S. relations with South Vietnam, peace talks and proposes an aid program. He offers to hold diplomatic discussions to end the war in Vietnam. He states the need for an independent South Vietnam. “Such peace demands an independent South Viet-Nam—securely guaranteed and able to shape its own relationships to all others—free from outside interference—tied to no alliance—a military base for no other country.” President Johnson said. The President calls upon South East Asia nations for a co-operative economic drive, and asks the United Nations and nations like the Soviet Union to join in. “For our part I will ask the Congress to join in a billion-dollar American investment in this effort as soon as it is underway. And I would hope that all other industrialized countries, including the Soviet Union, will join in this effort to replace despair with hope, and terror with progress.” President Johnson said. Men working with heavy machinery in a South East Asian industrial plant. View of working men constructing a modern bridge in Vietnam. Vietnamese farmer threshing harvested rice. A doctor examines a Vietnamese man. The crowd applauds the President's speech. Views of Vietnamese people working on farms, in technical and scientific laboratories, and industrialization in Vietnam. A European or American professor teaches a Vietnamese student inside a laboratory. Vietnamese women working inside a textile factory. Vietnamese farmers carrying produce. President Johnson quotes from the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible. “We may well be living in the time foretold many years ago when it was said: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.” President Johnson concludes his speech.
Large crowd gathers in Baltimore for a horse race. Horses racing on the track as people watch. Bold Venture, the horse wins Preakness Stakes. From a 1961 newsreel showing events from 25 years earlier.
Copper impurities remained after smelting removed by melting and electrolysis. Tank room of electrolytic refinery plant at Baltimore. The anodes placed in empty tank. Thin sheets of pure copper, serving as cathodes inserted between the anodes. The tank then filled with a dilute solution of copper sulphate. An electric current flows from the anode, through the solution, to the cathode on which pure copper is deposited. After removing the cathodes from remnants of anodes a sludge, into which the gold, silver and platinum has fallen, flushed out of the tank. Sludge melted by a worker into a bullion bar. The copper cathodes melted.
Piloted by the tug boat 'Thomas F. Timmins' the first German cargo submarine 'Deutschland', a blockade buster of the Entente Powers naval blockade, arrives in Baltimore Harbor. An animated map shows the movement of the submarine from Germany. Captain of the German submarine 'Deutschland', Paul König, with other men (Konig's name is listed in the slate as Koenig). German sailors on the submarine as it is escorted in port by the tug Timmins. Last part of clip switches to the Atlantic waters off of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the latest United States Navy submarine, the USS M-1 (SS-47) is seen during its test trials. It was the world's first doubled-hulled submarine.
U.S. military intervention during rioting in Baltimore in wake of Martin Luther King assassination. Sign on office door identifies 2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment. U.S. officers in their command center check a map of the city. Views of officers conversing in the command center. U.S. soldiers rest on floor of an armory: Some soldiers play cards. One soldier polishes his shoes. Few play basketball and one eats. An officer points at the map of the city.
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