A Foreign relations committee meeting in Washington D.C., United States. An official enters the committee room. A sign on the door reads 'Executive Session Admittance to members of committee only'. Delegates seated during the conference. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles looks at a map. Robert Alphonso Taft, Republican United States Senator and Joseph T Ferguson discuss. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Alexander Wiley sits with an official. He addresses the conference. He states that the military decisions will rest on the President
American Expeditionary Forces, 42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow Division) in France during World War 1. At Glonville, on May 8, 1918, Captain D. L. Smith talks over a field phone while directing artillery fire. Another soldier stands behind him. Captain D. L. Smith and Major Curtis G. Reddon converse over the field telephone. An officer smokes standing under a tree. Troops walk along a road in the background. On May 9, 1918, In Baccarat, France, U.S. Army Major General Charles T. Menoher, Brigadier General M. J. Lenihan, U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacArthur and staff officers confer in a field.
A cortege of U.S. Army trucks, covered with American flags and laden with flag-covered coffins of American soldiers,who fell in combat on May 27th, 1918,proceeds through the streets of Baccarat, France, in World War 1. U.S. soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division march as escorts, beside the trucks. Local citizens observe from the sides of the road. Scene shifts to Memorial Day (May 30, 1918), when U.S. Army Major General Charles T. Menoher and U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacArthur,of the 42nd Infantry Division, are joined by French Generals Dupont and Penet, in decorating the graves of fallen American soldiers, during a ceremony at a rugged battlefield cemetery containing new graves marked by wooden crosses. A little French girl places a bouquet (reportedly made by Major General Menoher) upon the grave of an American soldier.She is accompanied by other French children who also place bouquets on the graves. An honor guard of American soldiers fires a salute. Scene shifts to a gathering of American soldiers at their base in Baccarat, where they surround a small outdoor stage, to watch a Miss Hart, of the YMCA theatrical Corps dance the Higland Fling. She is dressed in traditional costume of Scotland and accompanied by a violinist. A group of Army musicians, seated close to the stage, watch the performance along with the rest of the troops.
The 35th Anniversary celebration of the first Wright airplane flight in the United States. Seats occupied in a NCR auditorium. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds, Founder of Ford Motor company Henry Ford, Aviator Orville Wright, and Inventor Charles Franklin Kettering seen sitting on stage. Still photograph of Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright.
The 25th Anniversary of Wright brother's first aircraft flight is celebrated in Washington DC, United States. Crowd of delegates in front of building. President of the United States John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. and his secretary stand on steps of building. Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics Frederick Trubee Davison,aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh, businessman Harry Frank Guggenheim, Assistant Secretary of Navy Warner also present. Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin present. Delegates from Venezuela present. Irish aviator Mary Lady Heath. Orville Wright honored stands amidst group of delegates. United States Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting and Orville Wright sitting.
U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy speaks at Washington News Conference in the United States. Kennedy at a podium. Journalist seated in a hall during the conference. Kennedy speaks over a microphone. He speaks about the Berlin crisis. He also speaks about the areas in South East Asia where U.S. can be involved. He also expresses his concern as he mentions the era as the most dangerous time in the history of human race.