The development of weapon system at the Wright Air Development Center of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. F-86D Sabre aircraft at the base. A pilot in a cockpit. Pilot wears a helmet, flying suit and oxygen mask. Pilot checks control. Various new type parts of the F-86D aircraft are demonstrated like the fuel engine, normal engine, emergency engine etc. Pilot work on controls F-86D taxis and takes off. Radar screen in operation. Radar screens in operation in the background. F-86D in flight. Students receive instructions in a classroom. Students at radarscope. Technicians and workers during a construction of runway. Technicians and Project engineers at work in an office. View of the Joint Project Officers at work. View of Wright Air Development organization and of buildings at Wright Air Development Center (WADC) in Ohio. Entrance of a building at the facility.
News report on a White House ceremony in United States. President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Johnson present awards to astronaut Cooper and NASA, Air Force and Navy officials involved in NASA Mercury-Atlas MA-9 program. Other recipients include James E. Webb who is awarded with a medal and a certificate. Major General Leighton I. Davis is given a medal for outstanding leadership. General Ben I. Funk accepts NASA Group Achievement Award on behalf of Air Force System. Awards given to a Navy officer. Floyd L. Thompson holds certificate for outstanding leadership. Astronauts shake hands with President Kennedy. Attorney General Robert Kennedy holds his daughter on his shoulder.
Cargo ships with wheat yield underway off shore. Smoke from the ship stacks. Industrial areas and wheat fields. Farm land and terrace farms. Farmers with horses work on farms and in fields. Cattle graze in fields. Patterned fields to hold the soil. Patterned land enriched with phosphate. Farmers talk about their land and farming problems, and share experience on farming methods to retain soil, learned from hard experiences during the Dust Bowl. Farming and farmland in the Carolinas, Oregon, New Mexico, Indiana, Texas Plains and parts of the Northwest United States. Houses in Pennsylvania. A farmer with his wife and child look over their farm. Wide views of tilled farm land. People in a farm community stand outside a food distribution area and wait for government supplied food aid (bread line) during Great Depression. Machines at work in fields and on farms.
An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. A USAF officer speaks. A Pan American aircraft at the Tan Son Nhut Air Base (Than Son Nhat International Airport, Trường Sơn, Phường 2, Tân Bình, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam) near Saigon in Vietnam. Civilians and U.S. Air Force personnel disembark the plane. A lady airline attendant stands by the air stair. Airmen standing near the plane take notes. Airplanes parked on the runway. An explosion in the background. U.S. airmen direct the new arrivals. Airmen and officers walk out of the Airport and line up at the entrance. A sign reads 'Saigon Tan Son Nhut'. (Vietnam War period).
A national television report on public reaction to U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination in the United States. Chicago: The deserted Main Street during and after the funeral of John F Kennedy. Cars and pedestrians on the street. Closed stores. The Chicago Shopping and Commercial District. A notice in a store window reads 'Day of mourning for President John F Kennedy'. A woman with her baby stops by a store window to look at a picture of President Kennedy with an 'In Memoriam' message. A crowd around a television set watches the news about Kennedy's funeral. The Kennedy family-owned Merchandise Mart (222 Merchandise Mart Plaza Chicago, Illinois) in The Loop. Soldiers lower the United States flag to half-mast. A large crowd outside St. Peter's Catholic Church (110 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60602, United States) in the Loop wait in long lines for the Mass while others inside pray. A school classroom inside a closed school. African American students put on their own close circuit television to pay tribute to Kennedy. A teacher and students speak about the late President and his life. An advertisement billboard sign reads the date of President Kennedy's assassination as a sign of respect and tribute.
A Press Conference with civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States. Correspondents include UN correspondent for the Ghana News Agency George Enninful, Mr Parshuram of the Indian Express and William Workman. They question and talk to African American clergyman and activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They discuss American politics, the Radicals and Democrats, the late President John F Kennedy, the American constitution and legislation.
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