Crowd during a baseball game between New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York. Roger Maris faces pitcher Tracy Stallard and hits home run in stands of Yankee Stadium. Crowd cheer for Maris as he broke Babe Ruth's 60 home runs record in a single season (though it was a season with more games than Ruth had). Maris rounds the diamond. He comes back out of the dugout to tip his hat to the cheering crowd.
An American college football game between Army and Syracuse at Polo Grounds in New York. West Point cadets march on the field. Army defeats Syracuse by 9-2.
Fidel Castro steps down plane during his arrival for the United Nations 15th General Assembly in New York. Castro's car stopped near a gate to greet a crowd of supporters cheering him. New York police huddle around the car and urge him to proceed on and not stop. Castro arriving by car in Harlem New York after transfer there from another hotel in midtown. Khrushchev meets Castro in the street in Harlem and they hug as police stand by for protection. View of United Nations building. The Cuban and Soviet contingents seen together greeting one another at the assembly hall of the United Nations. Castro goes to the stage to begin delivery of a record speech exceeding four hours. The chair is seen interrupting at one point in the interest of time. Castro addresses delegates. Castro boarding a plane supplied by the Soviet Union for his return to Cuba. Castro on stage surrounded by a crowd in Cuba. View of a lone Cuban farmer sweating as he works in the sun on a farm field.
President John F Kennedy's address at Miami Beach at a 'Fund Raising' Dinner in honor of Senator George A. Smathers. Dignitaries sit behind President Kennedy at the at the Fontainebleau Hotel (4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. 33140) as he delivers some lines of humor about his relationship with Smathers. “In 1956 I was at the Democratic Convention, and I said--I didn't know whether I would run for Vice President or not, so I said, "George, what do you think? This is it. They need a young man." "It's your chance." So I ran--and lost.” President Kennedy recounts his experience with Smathers as the audience laughs.
Officer sitting at desk reading newspaper during Project Thunderstorm in the Ohio. United States calendar on wall in an Officer's office. United States covered with a large mass of clouds in sky. Officer looking up at clouds. Officers seated in room listening to lecture about the Thunderstorm Project. Instructor gives lecture on various types of clouds which are drawn on blackboard. Officer giving lecture on P-61 which is drawn on blackboard. P-61's parked on runway. Close-up views of cockpit and control areas of P-61. Civilian mounting movie camera on top blister of P-61. Mechanic checking special recording instruments in rear of P-61. Animated drawing of P-61. G3 officers in classroom listen to instructor's lectures. Mechanics install radar installations and transmitters in nose of P-61. Radar device seen spinning inside nose of P-61. United States P-61 in flight. Civilian cataloging motion picture film using a motion picture projector on a desk. Civilian installing motion picture camera in nose of a Northrop F-15 Reporter. Aerial view of Northrop F-15 Reporter in flight. AT-6 parked on runway. Camera installations in rear canopy of AT-6 also for use in surveying storm cloud formations. Pilot approaches AT-6 and climbs into cockpit of AT-6. AT-6 warms up before take off. AT-6 in flight.
Tug tows Northrop F-15 Reporter into hangar in Minneapolis, Minnesota to be instrumented for Project Thunderstorm. Various scenes of electrical equipment used in making man-made lightning, including a generator made up of hundreds of transformers, and a connected massive generator for producing high voltage. A large oscillograph is shown along with a smaller oscillograph designed for airborne use. A scientist is seen inside the giant generator. Artificial lightning tests are made on canopy of the F-15 occupied by a scientist, and the canopy remains intact following lightning strike. Lightning rods are attached to lightning-vulnerable nose, tail fin, and wing tip locations of the Project Thunderstorm aircraft. Pilot climbs into canopy of F-15. Airborne F-15 project aircraft seen in flight headed toward area of dark clouds. In Ohio at Clinton County Army Air Field, a project officer (AAF Captain) describes how search procedures of the pilot, weather observer, and radar observer are coordinated and key locations of radar and cooperating facilities at Jamestown and the Clinton County Army Airfield. Large radar antenna revolving on top of large tower, scanning for signs of thunderstorms. Radar antenna scanning vertically, near Quonset huts. Command center inside a quonset hut with project personnel at radar scopes and thunderstorm and aircraft positions plotted on large plexiglass screens. Technician adjust motion picture camera that photographs radar scopes every four seconds. Operator at vertical measuring instrument, showing reflected returns from targets, on July 18, 1947. View of operator at plan position indicator radar scope showing weather returns on June 6, 1947. Ground Control Approach (GCA) truck located near end of airfield to guide landings of Thunderstorm aircraft. Radio operators sitting at radar scopes inside the GCA unit. P-61 makes GCA approach and landing in good weather, to maintain skills needed when weather is bad. Briefing officer at blackboard cites radio channels to be used for various purposes. View of AAF aircrews in audience.
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