Senate Subcommittee on Investigations conducts so-called Army-McCarthy hearings, chaired by Senator Karl Earl Mundt. Scenes include Senator Joseph McCarthy with his chief counsel, Roy Cohn. Among Senators seen are Stuart Symington and Everett Dirksen.
Major dinner attended by many dignitaries, including Winston Churchill, Cordell Hull, and John Foster Dulles.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill emerge from the White House in the United States. British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden is also seen. Photographers await their arrival and take pictures. The President and Prime Minister descend the steps and shake hands. Prime Minister Churchill and Sir Anthony Eden get into a waiting car. President Eisenhower bids farewell to other officials. The motorcade exits the gates as a large crowd waits outside. The White House.
A U.S. Air Force Boeing XB 52 Stratofortress Bomber at an aerodrome in the United States. Technicians work on the plane. Boeing XB 52 Stratofortress painted on the aircraft. People stand around the plane. Plane taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight over and under clouds. The bomber approaches the runway and lands.
Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, mingle with officials seeing them off from Washington National Airport, Washington DC, on a trip to Asia. Luggage at the airport. 'Dick Nixon Special' sign on the airplane. Well-wishers with posters and banners stand on the observation deck balcony. One sign reads: "We Love Pat." President Dwight D Eisenhower is personally seeing them off. Mrs. Nixon carries a bouquet of flowers. The Nixons wave goodbye as they board the waiting aircraft.
Cuban rebels against the Batista government work in exile in the U.S. and Mexico in 1956. New York encircled on the U.S. map. View of papers fluttering all around baseball field as the freedom fighters' leaflets cause a delay in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. Players on the baseball field view the scene. Miami encircled on the U.S. map. Castro raises funds for the revolution in Miami. Police and officials inspect arms confiscated from the revolutionaries. Close up scene of a payoff, with money changing hands between two men. Mexico City and Quintana encircled on a map. A huge war chest is raised in Mexico City. Castro buys arms and a 58 foot yacht equipped to carry fourteen people in Quintana. Ammunition dumped into a carton. Aerial view of an island. Wheel house on Castro's boat, the Granma, that goes aground. Officers and men on the boat. The radio operator sends a message dictated by an officer leading to ambush of the rebels by troops and police loyal to Batista. Soldiers load ammunition, stand guard, and enter gates. Some of Castro's men escape to the Sierra Maestra Mountains. A woman lays flowers on a revolutionists' grave, killed during the ambush by Batista's men. Men with load on horses. They cross a stream. A man with a machine gun. Soldiers advance in the jungle, talk to civilians and rest. Soldiers eat fruits, including girls who have joined Castro's movement. Fidel Castro seated in a chair while a man trims his hair. Soldiers shoot at a plane in the sky. A soldier loads his rifle. A woman stitches a shirt with the name 'JULIO' on it. A woman dries clothes on a clothes line.
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