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President John Kennedy addresses citizens of America about the Soviet military buildup and Soviet missiles on island of Cuba.

Early in Cuban Missile Crisis. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and other of President John Kennedy's advisors arrive at White House. Americans buying newspapers with headlines about the upcoming speech by the President. President Kennedy addresses citizens of America on television, explaining what has been happening in Cuba. U.S. citizens commenting in different manners on the situation. Civil defense shelters shown. Cuban blockade. Supermarket shelves stripped and queues at check outs. Governor Rossolini and Governor Rockefeller at White House to coordinate state civil defense activities. Comments by the governors to the press, talking about civil defense procedures and instructions for sheltering in place with food, water, geiger counter, radio.

Date: 1962, October 22
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038966
U.S. Yacht 'Weatherly' beats Australian challenger 'Gretel' during America's Cup yacht racing in United States.

America's Cup Yacht racing in United States. U.S. President John F. Kennedy along with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy are seen among the spectators at the sail boat race. U.S. Yacht "Weatherly" and Australian challenger "Gretel" race ahead of each other for the title. "Weatherly" wins the race.

Date: 1962, December 24
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046639
United States team defeats Australian team in a sail boat race and wins the America's Cup Series, United States.

United States team defeats Australian team in a sail boat race and wins America's Cup Series, United States. Sail boats 'Weatherly' from U.S. and 'Gretel' from Australia compete hard in a windy weather in sea. Photographers and spectators in other boats watch the race. Ships, tugs and boats in the bay. Crew of 'Weatherly' on a boat after victory. Sailors enjoy their victory cheered by their families and spectators. Victorious team of sailors party after the victory.

Date: 1962, September 27
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037030
Astronaut John H Glenn Junior does the final rehearsal for the America's first manned orbital flight in Cape Canaveral.

American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Junior's does the final rehearsal for America's first manned orbital flight in Cape Canaveral. John Glenn gets ready for the final rehearsal. Officers at the controls. A missile atop a spacecraft. Glenn checks cameras and inspects the space craft. He dons a space suit. He talks with newsmen. Fellow astronaut Scott Carpenter stands near him.

Date: 1962, January 22
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055883
Gregory Peck is honored by the theater owners of America as the 'Star of the year' in Bal Harbour, Florida.

A convention of theater owners of America in Bal Harbour, Florida. Spectators seated around tables as they watch the convention. Pert Suzanne Pleshette being presented the most exciting new star award. Gregory Peck being awarded the 'Star of the year'.

Date: 1962, November 12
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057792
Committee Meeting at Tenth International Conference of American States

A committee meeting during the 10th International Conference of American States (aka Pan-American Conference, or Decima Conferencia Interamicana) in Caracas, Venezuela, March, 1954. A delegate speaking from a podium. Other speakers seated behind at a long table. Views of delegates in the audience. Translators in booths behind main speakers table. Signs above translators booths indicate the channels for Spanish and English, reading, respectively: "Espanol-3," and "English-5." Attendees wear individual identification tags, and use headsets. Some remove their headsets when they are readily able to understand the speaker's language. Delegates applauding a speaker. View of some interior features of the meeting hall. A fully lit chandelier and curtained archway,behind speakers table, with banner reading 10th annual assembly, in Spanish and English. The center of the banner displays a circle enclosing image of North, Central, and South America. Elegant buildings along a beach road, with sand beach in foreground, and hills in the background. Exterior of the hotel in which the conference is being held. Broader view of committee meeting room in the hotel, with delegates seated. Stenographers writing notes at table below speakers. Scene shifts to a reception line in the hotel, at which delegates are greeted, individually, by a Venezuelan official (probably Dr. Aureliano Otanez,Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Relations). Scene shifts again to the meeting room where some delegates are seen closeup.

Date: 1954, March
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067987