The first public showing of X-15 rocket powered aircraft at NAA (North American Aviation) facility, Los Angeles. Various personnel stand near the tail end of the Western Airline plane. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and dignitaries take turns to speak from a platform. Personnel below the stand makes motion pictures. An X-15 rocket-powered aircraft being towed out of a hangar by a tug. Vice President Nixon stand beside the X-15 parked in front of the reviewing stand and talk with other dignitaries while inspecting the X-15.
The first public showing of an X-15 rocket powered aircraft at the NAA (North American Aviation) facility in Los Angeles. A large crowd inspects the X-15. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon reviews from a stand in the background.
Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. The Chairman Joe Martin greets the arrivals. A cheering crowd on the street. Women hold signs reading 'I Like Ike' An overhead sign reads G.O.P. HEADQUARTERS HOTEL. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, Governor Goodwin Knight and Senator William F. Knowland talk together in a room. Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie delivers a keynote address at the Cow Palace.
Hollywood stars play an annual charity baseball game in Los Angeles. A large number of spectators witness the annual charity baseball game in which many Hollywood actors participate. The game in progress. Object that appears to be a baseball is dropped from a blimp over the stadium but it is not a baseball and it shatters all over the field. Comic acts of stars on the field joking around during the game, playing cards, a player hitting a ball while sitting on another players shoulders, and players doing aerial flips while running for first base.
Howard hughes rehearses a statement and response to question, regarding charges against him levied by Senator Owen Brewster, Chairmain of the Senate Special Committee to investigate National Defense Programs. He states that the committee is investigating two of his airplane projects: the XF-11 photographic plane and his large flying boat. He states that he expects to testify before the committee.
Relocation of Nisei people in United States during World War 2. Japanese Americans arrive at the Manzanar relocation center (internment camp). Family members exit a bus. A young boy looking unsure as he observes the camp. New internees undergo medical examination. They participate in Americanization classes. They train themselves in self government. Block leaders are presented citations at a meeting. Japanese-American children internees are looked after in day care centers as men and women go to work. Young boys and girls seated at a table. Internees at Manzanar working in an experimental laboratory house for extracting rubber from guayule shrubs to increase rubber production during the war. Japanese American internees working in cultivating the guayule shrub. View of a project at the Parker camp where internees were working to irrigate desert land. View of sugar beet fields where internees could work. View of Manzanar war relocation center with mountains behind. War time propaganda narrator promotes the relocation centers as "setting a standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who may have loyalties to an enemy nation. We are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency."
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