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Scenes contrast between life in United States and that in totalitarian states

Statue of Liberty. Picnic for union workers. Sign reads, "Amalgamated Shirts and Pajama Workers of America, Local 343 Picnic" College graduation ceremony. Americans voting. Signs read, "Polling Place. Stalls open 6 A.M. - Close P.M." and "No Loitering or Electioneering Between This Point and The Poll." A woman enters a curtained voting stall to vote. Aerial view of early U.S. interstate highway exchange. Suburban neighborhood development in California, with elevated view of houses in suburbs. A pastor performs a wedding ceremony in a church. An American family picnics on bank of a stream. Students at a U.S. college campus. Parishioners coming out of a church. U.S. Congress in session. U.S. Capitol building exterior with tree branches. In contrast: Military parade in Communist East Germany, with tanks. A sign reads: "Peace, Prosperity, good fortune" (in German). Civil unrest in various countries, possibly Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian revolution in Hungary in 1956: People during a riot or demonstration and a city bus is seen crashing through trees and into a building on a busy downtown city street; Street riots; protest gatherings. Contrasting scenes: Peaceful U.S. metropolitan street scene; Farmer plowing field with tractor; Cowboys herding steers; driver in tanker truck with "Cyclone Rocket" logo on the door, welders at a shipyard.

Date: 1962
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043514
John F. Kennedy announces resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons testing during a speech in Washington DC.

United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivers a speech in Washington DC.on the subject of Nuclear Deterrence. President Kennedy seated on a podium and delivers his speech. He speaks into the microphone. A flag of United States on the stage. He talks about the nuclear weapons. Kennedy emphasizes on maintaining the quality and quantity of nuclear weapons so that America can survive nuclear attacks and have a credible deterrent.. He notes that there had been an agreed upon moratorium on Nuclear weapons testing. But, that the Soviet Union, abandoned that moratorium on September 1st, last year, when it commenced a series of nuclear weapons tests, many in the atmosphere. Accordingly, the President announced that he had first ordered the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing, limited to underground tests. Today, however, he was authorizing the Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Defense to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing as they deemed necessary under present circumstances, with due regard to issues of radioactive fallout and impacts on other nations..

Date: 1962, March 2
Duration: 8 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033985
Another space victory in Russia as Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 orbit around the earth within 24 hours of each other.

Newsreel coverage of the successful space flights of Soviet Russian astronauts in Vostok 3 and Vostok 4, during timeframe of "space race" between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The Russian astronauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich climb into manned space vehicles. Massive cloud of smoke arise as space ship lifts off. The vehicles travel through space and orbit around the planet within 24 hours of each other. Views from the spaceships while in orbit. The space crew at controls on the ground in Russia. Many newspaper headlines showing coverage of the Russian advance in space. Civilians in Red Square in Moscow cheer the new space heroes. They hold banners and pictures including a large photo of Andriyan Nikolayev.

Date: 1962, August 13
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055852
Luther Hartwell Lodges presents the President's E Award to the Eric Allen Johnston in Washington D.C.

The President's E Award in Washington D.C. United States Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hartwell Lodges, presents the President's E Award to the President of the Motion Picture Association of America Eric Allen Johnston. The award is given for significant contributions in increasing the foreign exchange of the United States

Date: 1962, May 3
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055875
President John F. Kennedy's motorcade drives on Vandenberg AFB roads in California.

U.S. Air Force Airman salutes. A group of children wave. Children and adults accompanied by Air Force personnel and Boy Scouts of America line up in large numbers along Vandenberg AFB road in California, United States. Helicopter covering the event can be seen. Crowd along the route waves and cheers as President John F. Kennedy's motor convoy drives by. Air Force personnel salute as President Kennedy passes by in his plexiglass bubble-top covered Lincoln limousine. Shows presidential convoy of cars and buses traveling along Vandenberg Air Force Base roads.

Date: 1962, March 23
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028977
Yachts Weatherly, Columbia and Nerfertiti underway during a trail race in Newport, Rhode Island.

Yachts in trails for America's cup races in Newport, Rhode Island. Men on a yacht named Columbia. A yacht named Weatherly underway. A flag of United States on the yacht. Men on Nerfertiti yacht. The trail race starts. The yacht underway. The yachts underway during the trail race.

Date: 1962, July 9
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069565