Television host, Dennis James, talks about the United States Marine Corps Reserves. United States Marine Corps reserves marching, standing in formation. A band plays while Marine Corps reserves march. Marine Corp reserves marching, salute to their officers, and hold their rifles.
Vaudeville poster of Welton and Morgan, known as “The Dapper Dan Duo”. Vaudeville stars Welton and Morgan tap dance and sing onstage, one of them tap dancing while sitting on a chair. Women clap from a theater box. Welton and Morgan bow after their end their performance.
Title sequence “Air Force Now”. Image of Lieutenant Rex T. Barber, the United States Army Air Force pilot who shot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during a military operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, taken during World War II. Rex T. Barber is interviewed by Air Force Now. Lieutenant Rex T. Barber describes how he shot down a Japanese bomber that carried Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during WWII.
Aerial view of Abilene, Texas and a prominent building, The Enterprise, 500 Chestnut St, Abilene, TX 79602, United States. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about living in Abilene and Abilene’s relationship with the United States Air Force. Aerial view of Dyess Airforce Base, Texas. Front view of a vehicle slowing down to a checkpoint with a United States guard. A sign reads “Dyess AFB and Abilene Community welcome the B-1B in 2 Days”. Aerial view of Texas farmlands. Wheat bows gently from the wind in the foreground as combine harvests wheat. Close up of a Green John Deere Combine harvesting wheat. Trucks line up at concrete grain silos. Railroad hopper car pulling up to grain silos. Man crosses gap between two railroad grain hopper cars. Men walking on hopper cars open roof doors to receive grain and position grain shoot over hopper door. A man crouches as he harvests potatoes from a field. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the people of Abilene. Aerial view of Abilene’s outskirts and the Hardy Grissom Ranch east of Abilene. View of large corral with many head of cattle. Phil Guitar, owner operator of the Grissom Ranch, speaks about the community having a good relationship with Dyess Airforce Base. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the feelings of Abilene residents of the impending arrival of the B-1B, and notes that the community is anxious to get the B-1 bomber and associated combat crew training squadron.
“Coming Attractions: Air Force Now” sequence. A view of Cape Canaveral with a United States NASA space shuttle launching in the background. An aircraft exploding in the sky during the Korean War. A United States air Force ground crewmember directs an aircraft with marshalling lights. A United States KC-10 airplane taxiing. A United States Air Force soldier, wearing a red OMS hat, drives as his comrades sitting behind him in a truck at night.
Artist impression of Dred Scott, an African American slave from the 19th century. Artist impression of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who ruled on Dred Scott’s historic case. A dramatization depicts Dred Scott’s case in the Supreme court in 1857. Dred Scott questions the Chief Justice as he stands in front in the court, saying, "I want my Constitutional rights, I want my freedom in this court." Off camera, the judge says that Scott and his people are considered to be "beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race." Interspersed with the testimony is modern dramatization footage of whites saying, “Damn, we have our rights!” and "they ain't gonna be in my grandson's class!" View of court gavel being slammed. Dred Scott walks away. A view of an empty courtroom. “He ain’t gonna be in my grandson’s class!” a man said, pertaining to the possibility of African-American students studying alongside White students. Artist impression of America’s Founding Fathers and Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson's signature on Constitution of the United States. Close up of words in Constitution noting that African-Americans are equal to "three fifths" of whites.
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