President Lyndon B. Johnson's voting rights address to Congress in Washington D.C., United States. Very brief segment showing civil rights march and demonstration on a city street with demonstrators carrying placards. President Johnson speaks about progress made through democratic process in the nation. He further speaks about pressures on President of United States. He talks about guaranteeing the right to vote for African Americans. President Johnson describes the voting rights act and how it will work. Crowd applauds. President Johnson shakes hands with speakers and talks to them. President Johnson walks through a crowd.
Allied warplanes in formation flying over Germany during World War II. Extreme closeup of a B-17 bomber in flight. Crew members can be seen in their positions in the cockpit, in the nose and in the top gun turret. Inside a B-17 cockpit, the pilot and copilot are seen wearing their oxygen masks. Closeup of two U.S. Army Air Forces P-51 aircraft supposedly providing fighter escort for B-17s. The nearest is a P-51D-5-NA, tail number 44-13325, VF-Z of the 336th Fighter Squadron,4th Fighter Group (probably flown by Lieutenant Earl F. Hustwit). Next, an African American pilot is shown in the cockpit of a fighter plane. Scene shifts back to the pilots in the B-17. Distant view of B-17 formation with top-cover formation of fighters. Another view of P-51, number 44-13325 and its wingman, in flight. Another view of the African American pilot in his cockpit. Several German Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft flying toward the camera. Three passing the camera.. View of several P-51s in flight. They release their belly drop tanks and peel off, ostensibly to engage German fighters. View of African American pilot, in cockpit, diving with hand on stick, pressing gun firing trigger. Closeup of guns firing from aircraft wing. A German fighter being struck and smoking. More views of the African American pilot in his cockpit. Gun camera view of an American fighter plane pursuing a German aircraft close to the ground. The German plane is hit and explodes. A P-51 flying close to the ground. Extreme closeup, again, of B-17 in flight, its pilots in cockpit, and the same two P-51s from the 336th Fighter Squadron, ostensibly escorting them. (Note African American fighter pilots, known as the Tuskegee Airmen flew in the 332nd Fighter Group during the war. Unfortunately, none of the aircraft from that renowned Group of "Red Tails" are actually seen in this film.)
Aviator Charles Lindbergh arrives in Washington D.C., United States after his successful non stop trans Atlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh with mother in a car moving through crowd of newsmen and photographers. Army troops try to keep order as the car proceeds.
Carnegie institution of Washington D.C. and American Physics Institute in New York. Exteriors of Carnegie institution of Washington Headquarters. People arrive and leave the headquarters. Car arrives at the entrance of the building. Interiors of American Physics Institute at 57 East 55th Street. Reenactment shows Dr. Vannevar Bush working at his desk. He signs a few documents.
U.S. Ambassador to UK Joseph Kennedy records a speech in Washington D.C., United States during World War II. He espresses concern about the "habit of smearing an opponent" because one disagrees with what he stands for. He asks, how can we maintain national unity when the motives of patriotic men are indiscriminately assailed. He says that if intolerance of contrary opinions flourishes, at this point of time, then future of theUnited States is dark.
Former U.S. Ambassador to UK, Joseph Kennedy, records a speech in Washington D.C., United States during World War II. He speaks about candidly reporting on the situation of United Kingdom while he was Ambassador to UK.
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