Dual World Premiere of Hollywood movie "The War Wagon" in Dallas and Fort Worth,Texas. In Dallas: John Wayne disembarks from a helicopter. He arrives for the premiere of his film The War Wagon. Co star Bruce Cabot receives a certificate. Barbecue and press reception being organized. Stars and celebrities gathered at the dinner reception for celebration of John's birthday. John cuts a cake. In Fort Worth: John Wayne arrives for the premiere. Large crowd of civilians gathered to greet Wayne. Valora Noland and Joanna Barnes also attend the premiere. Cowboy bands play and Native American Indian dancers perform.
Models and drawings of futuristic planes in the Air Force Laboratories at Wright Field, Ohio. Scenes of XP-67 aircraft in flight. A Northrup N9MB Experimental Flying Wing aircraft taxiing and in flight. A larger version, the XB-35 aircraft under construction. The XB-35 taking off. P-82 aircraft taxiing and taking off. Pilot in P-82. P-82 in flight. The XB-36 aircraft being assembled for its initial test flight, at the Convair factory in Fort Worth, Texas. XB-36 taking off from the Convair factory runway, at Fort Worth, Texas, and then in flight, with landing gear (of two 110-inch single tires) extended. View from above it as XB-36 lands at Eglin Air Field (one of only three airfields capable of bearing its high pressure wheel loading, which required concrete 22 inches thick). Officers standing by the tire of the XB-36 aircraft . B-50 aircraft taxiing and taking off. B-50 buzzing field. Demonstration of variable pitch propeller operation, including the blades going into full feather position. B-50 in flight on one engine, with props on engines 1,3, and 4 feathered. Testing landing gear on C-69 aircraft. C-69 landing. Testing landing gear of B-32 aircraft. Wind tunnels. Series of shots of wind tunnel.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy accompanied by Vice President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, at Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting in the Texas Hotel, on the morning of the day that the President was assassinated. Those present include Texas Governor Connally, Senator Yarborough, Men take pictures. The officials, Chamber of Commerce members and dignitaries applaud as President Kennedy walks on the stage. The Presidential Seal is displayed on the Podium. First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, is late arriving and applauded when she does. The President and Vice President greet her. Men take pictures. The President speaks to the assembly.
A U.S. Air Force F-106B Tandem Trainer mockup at the Convair Fort Worth Facility in Texas. The F-106B Tandem Trainer inside a hangar. Two pilots on a maintenance stand next to the F-106B mockup. One opens the canopy and both men climb-into aircraft. The maintenance stand is removed. Both pilots check over the instruments and manipulate the controls. The mockup is equipped with the side-stick configuration in both cockpits. Revised mockup configuration equipped with center-stick type controls. The accessibility of control switches and the side-stick configuration in the standard F-106P Tandem Trainer mockup. The horizontal position indicator mounted on the lower portion of the instrument panel, directly in front of the pilot. One of the pilots in the mockup manipulating the throttle mounted on the left side of the cockpit. A pilots looks into the radarscope hood. The pilot in the front cockpit manipulating the canopy control lever. Both pilots seated in the mockup trainer, canopy closing. Closed armament bay doors on the mockup. MB-1 rocket extended from the rocket bay of the mockup. Two pilots seated in the mockup. A technician uses a switch on the nose of the mockup to close the canopy.
U.S. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft at Fort Worth Air Base in Texas. USAF personnel stand around B-36 parked in a hangar. Two 42,000 lb. bombs being loaded on B-36 aircraft. A bomb is raised via lift into aircraft. Bomb appears to be a T-12 Cloudmaker "Earthquake bomb." Man writes something on the casing of the bomb, kisses his own hand and slaps it against the bomb casing, smiling. More scenes of the bomb being loaded.
U.S. Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft at Fort Worth Air Base in Texas. USAF personnel take a 42,000 lb. bomb towards a B-36 parked in a hangar. Bomb being loaded in bomb bay of the aircraft. (Bomb appears to be a T-12 Cloudmaker "Earthquake bomb.")
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