Group gathered around President Eisenhower. A score board in the background. Announcer thanks President Eisenhower for attending the National Field Day and Plowing matches and for serving as Honorary Chairman of the event. The President presents various awards as they are announced.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill emerge from the White House in the United States. British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden is also seen. Photographers await their arrival and take pictures. The President and Prime Minister descend the steps and shake hands. Prime Minister Churchill and Sir Anthony Eden get into a waiting car. President Eisenhower bids farewell to other officials. The motorcade exits the gates as a large crowd waits outside. The White House.
A U.S. Air Force Boeing XB 52 Stratofortress Bomber at an aerodrome in the United States. Technicians work on the plane. Boeing XB 52 Stratofortress painted on the aircraft. People stand around the plane. Plane taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight over and under clouds. The bomber approaches the runway and lands.
Several foreign dignitaries arrive at Ankara Airport, Turkey, via U.S. Air Force C-47. A few are seen wearing the traditional Fez hat. They are met by an honor guard and escorted by officials. They visit the Anıtkabir or mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Yücetepe, Akdeniz Cd. No:31, 06570 Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey), where they ceremoniously lay a wreath. They visit the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Republic Museum, Doğanbey, Cumhuriyet Cd. No:7, 06050 Altındağ/Ankara, Turkey).
Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, mingle with officials seeing them off from Washington National Airport, Washington DC, on a trip to Asia. Luggage at the airport. 'Dick Nixon Special' sign on the airplane. Well-wishers with posters and banners stand on the observation deck balcony. One sign reads: "We Love Pat." President Dwight D Eisenhower is personally seeing them off. Mrs. Nixon carries a bouquet of flowers. The Nixons wave goodbye as they board the waiting aircraft.
Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Montage of scenes including revolutionary casualties, burning buildings, Castro addressing his followers, revolutionaries carrying weapons, a revolutionary being shot, firemen fighting fire, Women parading with weapons,armed revolutionaries advancing through bush country, and Castro addressing hundreds of thousands of people. View of lighthouse at entrance to Havana harbor.Hotel Nacional de Cuba. The Capitol building. A fruit peddlar on the street in Havana. Workers in sugar cane fields.Views of Havana under the Batista regime, with hotels, and casinos with roulette wheels and other gambling paraphenilia. U.S. Navy ships at he U.S. Navy station at Guantanamo Bay and a large aircraft at the Leeward Point Field, Guantanamo Naval Air Station. Bastista military forces drawing weapons from armory and operating a tank.Pilots climb aboard Federal warplanes and start them up. Cuban police forces at work. Bastista followers in control throughout the country. View of the Presidential Palace surrounded by Batista armed forces. Fulgencio Batista surrounded by followers.The Cuban constitution of is suspended by Bastista and President Carlos Prío Socarrás and his family are seen leaving Havana. Bastista conducts a cabinet meeting. Disenchanted Cubans hold a mock funeral for their Constitution. University students assembling and taking to the streets in protest against the Batista regime. Police break up the demonstrations with force. Injured protesters are treated in hospital. Protesters carry coffin of one who was killed. University protesters march with arms linked and many others also march on the Police headquarters. They carry effigy of Batista. Opposition political leaders are arrested by the Batista police.