X-15 first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. X-15 in flight with other chase planes. It flies over the mountains and lands. It taxis on a dry lake bed. Contrails comes out from the engine of X-15. A Piasecki H-21 helicopter hovers over it. Cars and vans approach X-15 after it lands.
North American X-15 rocket powered aircraft first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. X-15 in flight. A radar in the background. X-15 flies and lands on a dry lake bed. A hangar in the background.
A speech by U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the United States. Vice President Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon arrive at a speaker stand at Edwards Air Force Base, California. They are escorted by other dignitaries. A flag of United States. People seated for the speech. Dignitaries on the stage. Vice President Nixon climbs up the steps of the stage and shakes hands with the dignitaries. Men take pictures. People seated on chairs at the base. Mr. Nixon; Mr. Kindelberger, President of North America; Mr. Horner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development make speechs. The dignitaries stand and applaud. X-15 is towed by a tug and is rolled out of a hangar. Insignia of United States. Dignitaries on either side of the X-15.
Drug testing experiments on animals, to learn the effects of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) on monkeys in a laboratory in San Francisco, California. A monkey in a cage. The monkey heavily drugged for experimentation with illegal drug LSD. He holds onto the cage side. An identification band on the monkey's stomach. The drugged monkey with closed eyes and rapid heart beat. Other monkeys in the cage jump up and down. The monkey with an identification band behaves in a different and disoriented manner. Other active monkeys jump and play about. They hang upside down on the cage ceiling.
The city of San Francisco, California. Moving traffic at an intersection. A cable car moves along on the street. Pedestrians walk by. The trolley crosses the street. Cars pass the streetcar. A van driven past. The cable car moves down a steep hill street. Sign on cable car says Powell and Hyde Streets.
An anti-Vietnam War protest demonstration in Los Angeles, California. Thousands of anti-war demonstrators gathered near the Los Angeles Hotel, where U.S. President Lyndon Johnson addresses a Democratic fund-raiser. Demonstrators hold banners and protest rallying for peace in Vietnam. Policemen keep a vigil. Unruly protestors scuffle with the police. Policemen arrest demonstrators. A wounded demonstrator with a cut on his head, being held by police.
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