Scenes of crowd and President Kennedy on the stage during his West Berlin visit. The cannon salute to President John F Kennedy and scene of man wearing space suit. President review photos of his current visit. President Kennedy , Konrad Adenauer and west berlin Mayor Willy Brandt in front of microphone. President boards flight and the plane takes off. Aerial view of West Berlin and voice of John F Kennedy repeats. 26 June 1963.
Military trucks move on streets of West Berlin. Soldiers on the streets. Soldiers stand under Friedrichstraße sign. Soldiers on United States and British army tanks. Construction of Berlin Wall in process as East German workers lay fresh cinder blocks with mortar. Military tanks escort 12-year-old British boy to school through narrow area after threats from East Berlin police. View of the famous St Hedwig Cathedral (Hinter der Katholischen Kirche 3 10117 Berlin) walled off by the new Berlin Wall. Soldiers on the East side. A newly wed bride on the East side. Her mother watches from the West.
During Berlin Crisis, Russian staff car drives across border. West Berliners run after it. United States Army tour buses arriving into the Western sector. M-48 tank leaving the area.
Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower sits for group portrait with other U.S.military leaders and a British General, following the end of World War Two, in Europe. Among others seen, in the front row of the portrait, are General George Patton, General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges, and the British General. A soldier stands with a horse sent as a gift, to General Bradley, from Soviet Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev. The horse blanket under the saddle bears a white star. Generals Hodges and Patton examine the horse. General Patton looks in its mouth. General Bradley and General Eisenhower walk around the horse and discuss it.
60,000 attendees, including many veterans of World War I, march to the Tannenberg battlefield for the dedication of the Tannenberg Monument. Tannenberg Monument dedication ceremony commemorates the German victory over Russian forces in August, 1914, and fallen German soldiers during World War I. German Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, who officiates at the ceremony, also celebrates his 80th birthday.
German military officers mingle with civilian opera patrons entering the Opera House in Bayreuth, Bavaria, for a performance of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, by Richard Wagner. A program for the performance is shown. The final scenes of the Act are shown and the curtain closes.
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