United States Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps Director Oveta Culp Hobby speaking to first WAAC officers to graduate from Officers Candidate School in Fort Des Moines, Iowa during World War II. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps salute before taking their seats. Audience clapping before Director Hobby congratulates the graduates of the six-week WAAC program. “In the days and years to come, this saga will become of increasing strength to the nation. Shortly you will go on active duty, your graduation today is, in a real sense, a commencement of service” Hobby continued. “I can assure you, that you will be serving the purpose you had in mind when you volunteered as officer candidates for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. I can assure you that it is a path of duty and devotion. You will serve as incorruptible witnesses for freedom. You have formed the soul of this corp. We will flourish and inspire and guide those who will follow you” Hobby concludes her speech before introducing Representative Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers to the graduates.
A hippie with Afro hairstyle and a flower in his hair dancing. Hippies dancing to rock music at a love-in in Central Park, New York City. Narrator says, "rock music is a basic ingredient of the hippy life. So too are drugs..." A hippie dances wildly. A hippie woman with elaborate eye makeup who appears to be high or tripping on drugs. Hippies playing a xylophone outdoors. A man gathers a bunch of flowers from a box in Central Park. Hippie giving away flowers.
Explosion from nuclear blast. Destroyed houses and debris after a nuclear weapon explosion during nuclear testing by the United States. A mannequin partially covered by wood debris. Two men inspect groups of sitting mannequins. View of male, female, and infant mannequins. A man carries a female mannequin into a truck. Old and new passenger cars parked on the side of a road. Cars are marked with numbers. Cars start to drive in a convoy. Cars driving on the highway to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)’s Nevada Test Site, formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, in Nye County Nevada. Cars are left at Yucca Flat. Joshua trees and weeds on Yucca Flat. Instruments to measure temperature are attached to the cars. A radiation film badge behind a car seat. Parked cars are stationed in various ranges from intended ground zero of shot Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear test during Operation Doorstep. A man places a female mannequin on the passenger seat of a car. A boy mannequin is seen inside the car.
Vehicles parked outside a model framed house at the Nevada Test Site before Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep. United States Civil Defense personnel gather outside the model framed houses. A KTLA news van parked outside a model house at the Nevada Test Site. Venetian blinds on house windows. Mannequins sitting in a model first floor living room and dining room. Girl and toddler mannequins sitting on the floor together. A mannequin lying in a sickbed. A pair of shoes on top of bedside table. A mannequin holding a book faces the window. A scale model of a box-type shelter. Mannequin inside a shelter. A bomb tower seen from a distance. Model house and a car near the bomb tower. Outdoor shelter of reinforced concrete at the Nevada Test Site. A scale model shows the interior view of a basement exit type home shelter.
United States Army troops move out of the underground trench offering some protection, following Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep during the Cold War. Dark smoke from nuclear blast. TV crews capture the mushroom cloud formed after the atomic bomb explosion. A helicopter carrying Federal Civil Defense Administration Director Val Peterson lands. Val Peterson is escorted out of the helicopter. Val Peterson talks about his experience during the nuclear test. American physicist and Atomic Commission Test director Dr. Alvin C. Graves gives an interview. Radiological Safety Team helicopter takes off. Radiological Safety Team personnel wears a gas mask. Houses far from ground zero shows minimal damage. Blown up windows and frames are seen from damaged houses. Mannequins posed inside a living room and dining room before a nuclear test. Mannequins in disarray and a trashed living room after the blast. A mannequin lying on debris from nuclear blast. Plaster and window damage in bedroom. Decimated house shows total destruction near ground zero. A mass of rubble and debris. Roof and walls blown into several sections. A destroyed car under the roof. First floor disintegrated and second floor collapsed inside a house near nuclear test site ground zero. Pushed back wooden girders blocked stairway leading to basement. Part of the kitchen and dining room has fallen into the basement. A mannequin is seen in the basement. A cracked beam in box type shelter. A group of mannequins inside a box type nuclear shelter. Cars left at the Nevada Test Site show significant damage.
Headlines about Upshot-Knothole Annie, a nuclear weapons test that was part of Operation Doorstep, on the front pages of newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Review Journal, and Las Vegas Sun. Outdoors nuclear bomb shelter at the Nevada Test Site. A basement leading to a box type shelter during the Cold War. Scale model of home fallout shelters. Mannequins sitting and posing in living room and dining room. A mannequin holding a book faces the window. A nuclear blast explosion.
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