Aircraft after landing on airstrip. Delegates disembark from plane. A man speaks to a reporter after the delegates’ arrival. Military prison riots in Cuba. Cuban soldiers in prone position. Prisoners stand of roof and tower of prison. Black Cuban rioters march inside the prison. Prisoners standing on top of prison tower. Men at prison. Man shooting with a machine gun. A tank rolls in the center of Havana during the Cuban Revolution. A star-shaped light on top of a control tower. Delegates from the People’s Republic of China arrive in Cuba. People’s Republic of China Foreign Minister Lu Chung shake hands with Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Minister Lu Chung meets President Ocvaldo Dorticos Torrado. Chinese delegates during meeting. View of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet (35 Beijing Middle Rd, Lhasa, Tibet, China, 850000). Lines of trucks driven in Tibet.
Views of people from various countries of the world and of South America about the Cuban revolution and rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. Fidel Castro alights from an airplane for the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September 1960. Officials receive him. An expert talks about Castro during his two visits to New York for General Assembly meetings. Fidel Castro meets with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City. Castro addresses the UN General Assembly for five continues hours.
The Cold War. President Lyndon B Johnson addresses session of Congress. Maps of Communist countries. Maps of America's allies. Map of Africa. Representative of a nation of Africa addresses the United Nations Assembly. Delegates from Togo watch the speech. Scenes of poverty in area with simple shack homes in Africa. African government officials attend a conference as they work to found new African nations. Map of Cuba. Fidel Castro speaks at microphone. Crowd listens. Another view of Castro giving an address and speaking animatedly. Cameramen record event. Views of ordinary people in Third World countries working in tasks mostly agriculture related. Street scenes in U.S. cities with busy streets with cars and buses, and many pedestrians heading to shops and offices. Wide view of Great Plains in midwest U.S. People walking to church in small town. Aerial view of Queens, Manhattan and East River, in New York City. "New America" shows aerial view of suburbs located in outskirts of city. Street level scene in a vintage early 1960s suburban neighborhood. Boy and girl children in the front yard outside a house in the suburbs with a dog. A U.S. Department of Commerce display clock showing population growth. Doctors in hospital delivering babies. Newborn baby infants and young children seen playing and eating. Close up views of faces of American children, smiling.
Leaders of various organizations meet during the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. Leaders of Non-Aligned Movement Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Marshal Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, and Jawaharlal Nehru of India during a meeting. Communist leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro meet personally in New York City. View of Castro and Khrushchev in front of Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City. Fidel Castro walks with his supporters on the roads of Havana Cuba and seizes all United States owned property. A Cuban worker uses hammer and chisel to remove name on the U.S. owned Cuban Telephone Company building from exterior doorway of building in Havana, Cuba.
Fidel Castro steps down plane during his arrival for the United Nations 15th General Assembly in New York. Castro's car stopped near a gate to greet a crowd of supporters cheering him. New York police huddle around the car and urge him to proceed on and not stop. Castro arriving by car in Harlem New York after transfer there from another hotel in midtown. Khrushchev meets Castro in the street in Harlem and they hug as police stand by for protection. View of United Nations building. The Cuban and Soviet contingents seen together greeting one another at the assembly hall of the United Nations. Castro goes to the stage to begin delivery of a record speech exceeding four hours. The chair is seen interrupting at one point in the interest of time. Castro addresses delegates. Castro boarding a plane supplied by the Soviet Union for his return to Cuba. Castro on stage surrounded by a crowd in Cuba. View of a lone Cuban farmer sweating as he works in the sun on a farm field.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in White House, Washington D.C., United States. The President at a press conference announces a cut down in Cuba's assigned share of America's sugar market by 95%. Sugar cane fields as men cut canes. Canes loaded onto carts and tractors and is transported to factories to be processed and made into sugar.