On Target ' a documentary on 8th Airforce of the United States. A B-52 air-launches an AGM-28 Hound Dog supersonic jet-powered cruise missile which is seen soaring under its own power. A formation of World War II B-24 Liberator bombers flying above clouds. A formation of B-17 bombers in flight.
Strategic Air Command B-52 parked on ramp at airfield in the United States. A B-47 bomber in flight. A B-52 on takeoff with landing gear still extended. A B-58 Hustler bomber in flight. A KC-97 aerial tanker aircraft in flight. A B-52 refueling from a KC-135 tanker. AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missile being air-launched by a B-52. Ballistic missiles being launched from Strategic Air Command sites. Radar site. Control tower. A KC-135 taxiing for takeoff. Pilots moving controls in a cockpit. A B-52 taking off. Pilots in cockpit of a B-52. Tail of B-52 number 56-0581 "Spokane, City of Lilac." Airmen engaged in various duties, including avionics, weather, and air traffic control. B-52s taking off sequentially. Logo of the United States Air Force Strategic Air command.
A United States Navy's first unmanned anti submarine helicopter QH-50 DASH (Drone Anti- Submarine Helicopter) Drone on board a ship in mid sea. A technician with his head phones on makes pre flight checks of the helicopter. An orange light comes to the front in the helicopter. Rotor blades of the helicopter rotate as the engine starts up. The technician squats down as he checks the helicopter and pulls a cable from the right. DASH Drone lifts off as two technicians wearing hard caps and head phones look on. The controller monitors the lift off and flight of DASH Drone. It lands back on the deck after a short flight.
Segment of a U.S. Secret Service film retracing events in the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Film opens showing aerial view of the assassination scene. Principal streets are outlined and buildings surrounding the scene. Narrator describes the path of the President's motorcade. The location is shown, where Abraham Zupruder captured the entire event on his 8mm movie camera. Locations of two other persons filming during the event are also shown. Positions of the President's car when he was shot, are shown. Scene shifts views of the area from a camera panning across the area, including the Texas School Book Depository Building (207 N Houston St, Dallas, TX 75202, United States), from where the assassin fired. The pavilion from where Mr. Zapruder filmed is shown. Cars are seen driving in the so-called Triple Underpass. Dealy Plaza is shown along with the old County Courthouse and the new one under construction.
Film opens showing a blackboard and chalk sketch of the area in Dallas where U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Key streets and location where Mr. Abraham Zapruder took his 8mm film of the event are pointed out. Other details are identified, including the window from which shots were fired in the Texas School Book Depository Building. Details of distances from various points and timing of shots are narrated. Scene shifts to view from inside a car following the motorcade route. it turns in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where some spectators are watching the activity. Spectators watch on Elm Street,as the car retracing the motorcade route heads toward and through the Triple Underpass. Dallas police officers are seen controlling traffic to facilitate the Secret Service filming. Scene shifts to the Texas Book Depository, where window used by the assassin is pointed out. The camera focuses back as the car follows the original motorcade path.
A sketch shows the layout of sixth floor in the Texas School Book Depository building (207 N Houston St, Dallas, TX 75202, United States) from where the assassin fired shots that killed President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. The diagram shows that the building has two service elevators one facing the east and other facing west. It has two stairways -up and down. The assassin's gun was found in front of the down stairway. Views inside the sixth floor are then shown that reveal, among other things, numerous cartons throughout the area, providing plenty of cover for the shooter.
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