A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry LeSueur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Formosa (Taiwan) and Chinese Communists. He states that if the Communist Chinese launch attack on islands off the mainland then there will be war. Allied forces talk in South East Asia. He also says that the United States has given recognition to Red China by asking UN to help obtain ceasefire in Taiwan.
A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry LeSueur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to South Vietnam and the need to protect it against Communism.
Scenes from first flight of the Lockheed XP-80A, prototype of the P-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational jet fighter aircraft. The aircraft livery (paint job) is dull gray. Unlike the future operational versions, this XP version has no tip tanks. The aircraft piloted by Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier, is seen flying low over the Muroc Flight Test Base (later Edwards Air Force Base).
Rebellion flares in Hanoi, Vietnam during Indochina War. French troops shell rebel held towns and then move in for bitter in-fighting with machine guns and small arms to mop up the entrenched Vietnamese. Wounded and dead combatants in the ruins. General Jacques-Philippe LeClerc, in charge of the military operation in Indochina, and French oversea minister, Marius Moutet, inspect the area. They move in towns by jeep and army tanks. General George and others standing outside the Pasteur Hospital building (National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1 P. Yec Xanh, Phạm Đình Hổ, Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội 100000, Vietnam), which had been vandalized. Debris and wreckage in buildings. French soldier enters a trench and finds a Japanese-made helmet (World War 2 era) that was used by a Viet Minh soldier.
The White house in Washington DC. Exterior of the White House. Trees in the foreground. Interior views of the Oval Office. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt works on his desk inside the White House. Paintings on the walls of the building. Flags near a table. A statue, a clock and some books on the table. Close-up views of various furnishings and art work in the Oval Office of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A shelf near a window. Books in the shelves. View of the outer area through the window. Secretary Stephen Early sitting beside the President at his desk. Side view of President Roosevelt seated at desk and writing. President Roosevelt's secretary, Marguerite LeHand, talking to Secretary Marvin McIntyre. Dignitaries seated on chairs in a hall. Closeup views of artwork on walls in areas in or near Oval Office. Exterior view of White House North portico in background, with equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square in foreground. Streetcar or trolley and various cars pass by on road in front of White House.
The Presidential yacht Potomac underway docked and then underway in Miami, Florida, United States. President Franklin D Roosevelt along with Harold LeClair Ickes, Secretary of interior, James Roosevelt, Hopkins and others on board the yacht named "Potomac". President Roosevelt talks to them as he relaxes. A large number of people gathered at the dock to welcome the president. An official building with the American flag in the foreground.
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