Pilot Reg Robbins and mechanic James Kelly start 172 hour flight in Fort Worth, Texas. They set a new endurance flight record. Monoplane 'Fort Worth' takes off. Ryan Brougham monoplane named 'Fort Worth' in flight. Fort Worth monoplane refueled by another aircraft during flight. The plane lands and taxis. Crowd runs out to aircraft. Pilot Robbins and James Kelly with their wives at the Fort Worth air port. The crowd greets them. Pilot Robbins and James Kelly wear garlands.
Pilot Reg Robbins and James Kelly set a new endurance flight record in Fort Worth, Texas. Reg Robbins and James Kelly at Fort Worth air port. Ryan Brougham monoplane christened 'Fort Worth'. Reg Robbins bids goodbye to his wife and son. Fort Worth monoplane in flight. Fort Worth monoplane refueled by another aircraft during flight.
U.S. President John F Kennedy's Chamber of Commerce breakfast speech at Hotel Texas (815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102) in Fort Worth, Texas. President Kennedy at the podium on stage in the Crystal Ballroom. He addresses the people seated in the conference hall. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the present dignitaries, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce members and other attendees stand and applaud his speech.
Opening slate reads: "New Anti-Aircraft Record Achieved by Coast Defense Aces, Ft Monroe, VA." A Curtiss O-1B two place bi-wing airplane is seen in flight. Aerial view of the Fort Monroe, Virginia, waterfront. Gun emplacements are seen. Air- to-air view of the Army airplane in flight over Fort Monroe. But this time, a target can be seen towed behind the aircraft. View of U.S. Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley, looking skyward, in the company of three Army officers, including Major General John W. Gulick, chief of the Coast Artillery and commander of Fort Monroe, who is standing next to the Secretary, to his right. View of gunners in a battery of 6-inch anti-aircraft guns. Batteries firing and puffs of white smoke seen aloft. Tracer bullets seen all around a towed target. Soldiers looking through an artillery range finder. A towed target floating in the air with black clouds from exploding anti-aircraft rounds nearby. Gunners firing at high rates of speed.
Opening scene shows injured soldiers in World War 1 being transferred to a field hospital. Next scene, in the United States, shows disabled and injured veterans of World War 1, and recovering soldier veterans, as they exit railroad hospital trains at a train station, and are met by medical staff of Fort Sheridan, in Lake County, Illinois. Women offer the soldiers donuts from baskets. Veterans get into waiting ambulances. Civil war cannon in a snowy field, and view of Fort Sheridan grounds, including the Fort Sheridan water tower and barracks complex. Disabled veterans get out of ambulance and enter hospital facility at Lake Sheridan. Nurses caring for injured patients in hospital ward. A patient in a bed draws a picture. Nurses massage patient's hands and arms. Therapists and nurses using various therapy machines for patients, including one that appears to connect wires to a patient's arm.
Highlights of a football game in Fort Worth, Texas, between Texas Christian University and Kansas at Fort Worth's Amon G. Carter Stadium (2850 Stadium Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76129). Gale Sayers, "The Kansas Comet" is seen at the beginning of the video. The first score is made just before half time. With the score at 7-6, a field goal in the last quarter, by Texas Christian University makes the final score 10-6.