President John F Kennedy reveals Soviet Russian aircraft pullout at a news conference in United States soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis. President lifts the United States Naval blockade of Cuba after Nikita Khrushchev gives his pledge that Soviet bombers will be out of Cuba in 30 days. President Kennedy speaks over the microphone. Reporters take notes while photographers take pictures.
President Harry Truman and former Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, are among those present as George C. marshall takes the oath of office as Secretary of State, in the oval office of the White House. Afterwards, he walks out of the White House and down the block next to the Old Executive Office Building. A phalanx of photographers take pictures of Secretary Marshall at his desk as he signs his first official document as Secretary of State.
Operations of U.S. Navy Carrier Group 5 (CVG-5) aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Valley Forge (CV-45) during the Korean War. View of interior of control room. F4U Corsair aircraft of Squadrons VF-53 and VF-54 being armed while parked on flight deck with wings folded. Several start engines and begin to taxi. Rockets are mounted under their wings and bombs under their fuselages. One is given signal and commences takeoff roll. Two AD-4 Skyraiders, of Squadron VA-55, also take off from the carrier. All the aircraft seen display the CVG-5 tail code "S."
A United States Army Lieutenant General and a Navy Admiral, seated under a grass covered canopy with group of French officers. The Commander of French Forces in Indochina, General Henri Eugene Navarre, looks through binoculars. A flight of two American Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star jet fighter aircraft drop bombs and pass overhead. French soldiers cross a stream in boats and advance on the opposite shore. French Army engineers assemble a pontoon bridge over which camouflaged army trucks then drive.
North American Air Defense (NORAD) Headquarters at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, during the Cold War. NORAD Commander, USAF General Lawrence S. Kuter and Canadian Deputy enter the control room. Airman reads incoming teletype message and updates data on status board. View of a NORAD building. Air Defense controllers viewing radar screens. Two F-102 fighter intercepters are scrambled. They fire air-to-air missiles. A BOMARC missile is fired. Nike missiles are fired.
Cold war exercise dramatization showing actions by NORAD (North American Air Defense) control room (war room) staff in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, and Strategic Air Command (SAC) in missile defense response to enemy attack. A Navy ship's captain reports enemy detected on radar. NORAD pilots run to Royal Canadian interceptor aircraft and take off. NORAD Commander, U.S. Air Force General Lawrence S. Kuter and his Canadian Deputy seen in NORAD Command Post. They phone another 4-star general who picks up a red phone to call the White House. SAC bombers are seen in flight. U.S. Air Defense F-102 interceptors are scrambled.
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