A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Warren Austin and Britain's representative to the UN Alexander Cadogan seated next to each other. Warren Austin states that the Soviet Union has turned the good people of Czechoslovakia into slaves. He says that the system of democracy in Czechoslovakia is threatened, and the freedom of holding and acquiring property has been destroyed. He further states that the Security Council should consider the charges laid upon the Soviet Union which are charges of indirect aggression in Czechoslovakia.
A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. Britain's representative to the UN Alexander Cadogan speaks about a truce between Palestine and Britain after the formation of the state of Israel. He speaks about withdrawal of British troops from Palestine. Soviet Union's representative on the United Nations Security Council Andrei Gromyko sitting next to Cadogan.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. United Nations building in New York. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson asks Soviet representative to the UN Valerian Zorin if his country was installing missiles in Cuba. Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorts, 'I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over'.
After a radio play in New York terrifies the nation. Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller 'The War of the Worlds' as staged by Orson Welles, a young actor-manager. Orson Welles speaks at a press conference about the event. Media persons take notes during the press conference.
Models display machine washable dresses in Manhattan, New York. The models walk on a ramp displaying dresses including mini skirts, culottes, short pants suits, tunic tops, striped skirts, baby dresses and mini disco dresses. All of them are of cotton and washable synthetics. Photographers take photos. Audience sitting at a dining table.
The Rodman Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the Native American Indians in the United States. American flag raising ceremony at Fort Wadsworth, New York shows the leader of the expedition Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon dedicating the flag to American North American Indians and raising it at the site of the future National American Indian Memorial (which was never built), after the same flag had toured the U.S. to different tribes during the Rodman Wanamaker Expedition. The flag is raised by a member of Winnebago Native American Indian Reservation Henry Roe Cloud. Ex-Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott delivers a speech. at Fort Wadworth. Anchored ships. The President of the Board of Indian Commissioners George Vaux Jr. delivers a speech. Henry Roe Cloud speaks.
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