A documentary television program depicts the role of U.S. soldiers in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Animated map of Italy shows the location of mountains near the Mignano Valley. Operation Raincoat at Camino Hills. Troops fire guns at the hills. Smoke rises in the foreground. The soldiers fire guns. A soldier looks trough a binocular. The troops fire artillery. They capture Mount la Difensa, Mount la Remetanea and Mount Maggiore . Troops of Italian 1st Motorized Group advance and enter the Mignano area . The Italian troops construct a mud wall. The troops fire with guns on Mount Lungo . Smoke rises in the background. Firing at Mount Lungo. The troops fire guns in a small town San Pietro. 504th Division paratroopers along with their supplies and guns advance towards San Pietro. The troops advance. Soldiers look through binoculars. German aircraft in flight and lay a smoke screen. The soldiers look through binoculars. A narrow mine road and a tank moves on the road. Smoke rises due to firing. The troops enter the town. Damaged buildings in the town. The troops walk past damaged building. The people of San Pietro. Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower visits San Pietro. Jeeps drive on a road.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress in Washington DC during World War II . The U.S. Capitol building. The U.S. flag in the foreground. New Congress members wave. Congress men seated in a hall. Roosevelt speaks into a microphone and addresses the Congress. He gives a speech on hope and courage.
Damage caused due to hurricanes on the East Coast of the United States in 1936. The roads flooded with water. Damaged electric poles. Cameramen stand in a line taking pictures in the rain. A car stuck in water. Dramatic scene of a boy and a policeman riding their bicycles in very high water. wind damaged and flood damaged buildings and houses. Men walk near the rubble and look at a damaged house. In Texas, views of flooding from rivers. A damaged railway track. A wrecked car. Men at the railway station board a train. American industrialist and billionaire John D. Rockefeller makes his annual trip to the South. He gets out of a car and boards the train. At age 97, John Rockefeller is escorted by his personnel.
Former President of the U.S. Harry S. Truman visits White House in Washington D.C., United States. The White House building. Truman and Bess Truman get off from a car. U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy welcome them. The White House staff greets them. Truman's daughter Margaret Truman meets her father former President of the U.S. Mrs. Kennedy escorts Mrs. Truman. Kennedy, Truman, First Lady and Mrs Truman stand together and the White House staff in the background.
Opening scene shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt driving his personal Ford Phaeton hand-controlled car along a tree-lined drive at his family residence in Hyde Park, New York. Riding with him are his daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, and her children, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie"). Next, Roosevelt is seen in car, parked in a cornfield, near the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, while his grandchlldren, “Sistie” and “Buzzie” visit with farm hands who are clearing old plants from the field. Very good close-up of President Roosevelt sitting in the driver’s seat of his car. Scene changes to the lawn at "Springwood," the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, where President and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are sitting in wicker lawn chairs. She is knitting, and FDR is paying attention to the grandchildren, Anna and Curtis, who are riding horses, and granddaughter, Sara, on a pony. He talks with Sara. Close-up of Sara. Change of scene shows Republican Presidential Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas, and his family in their home. Voters are seen lined up along the sidewalk to cast their ballots in the election. View inside the polling place of voters entering and leaving individual voting booths. Another view shows voters in a long line snaking back and forth across a sidewalk. A Jewish Rabbi is seen registering and being directed to a voting booth at one polling place. On election night, President Roosevelt stands outside his Hyde Park home, assisted by his son Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., as he acknowledges his reelection victory. View of Times Square in New York City, crowded with people celebrating FDR’s reelection. President Roosevelt drives in an open on his return to Washington to resume his duties in the White House. He holds a large bouquet of flowers aloft and waves it to the crowds of spectators who fill the sidewalks. Later, he waves his hat. View of the Presidential motorcade lining Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Capitol in the background. The crowds spill partway into the streets, in places where police are not keeping cordoned off. A crowd of thousands of people packs the area immediately in front of the White House as President Roosevelt, assisted by his son, stands and waves from a portico. Clip is from a 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy congratulates the first American to orbit the earth Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr at the White House in Washington D.C., United States The President stands at a podium and speaks over a microphone. Glenn and other officials stand at a platform. A U.S. flag in the background. Kennedy congratulates Glenn and presents him a medal. Colonel Glenn with his wife Annie Glenn and children.
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