Interior view of new Voice of America transmitter in studio in Greenville, North Carolina. Officials inspect are briefed and observe radio control room. Views of controls and gauges. U.S. Information Agency Director, Edward R. Murrow, smoking a cigarette, is among the group. View of technician reading gauges and taking readings. Control room operator at his station.
Officials of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), and media representatives, tour the new high power Voice of America (VOA) radio transmitter in Greenville, North Carolina. They assemble outside the glass-enclosed sound studio control room as VOA Director, Henry Loomis, explains its workings. Mr.Loomis escorts USIA Director, Edward R. Murrow (smoking a cigarette). Views of recording equipment, magnetic tape recording machines running; extensive patch bays, with many connections; and many teletype machines.
Flag of United States at new transmitter building of Voice of America, in Greenville, North Carolina. Views of control building; antenna farms; towers; power substations; various arrays; and large open areas covered by these things.
Cubans react to the realization that Communism has come to Cuba. A crowd gathered for a demonstration. People set fire to things during the demonstration. Soldiers keep a vigil on the streets. A meeting of Anti-Communists. Key West, Florida: Demonstrations by the Christian Anti-Communist Group. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's effigy hanged from a pillar. Various Anti-Castro groups form the Democratic Revolutionary Front in Miami. It is led by Manuel Antonio de Varona, the former Prime Minister of Cuba. He addresses a meeting of the Front. The U.S. and Cuban flag on either side of the table. The Front officials during a discussion. They blame Castro for taking over Cuba, terror, political murder, and call for his overthrow. A woman types the charges made on Castro. They work towards their goal through the means of radio programs. A radio announcer speaks over a microphone. New York City: Anti-Castro exiles stage a rally near the statue of Cuban nationalist leader Jose Julian Marti Perez in Central Park. They get into a scuffle with Castro's supporters. The police try to control the fighting mob.
U.S. Navy launches a new aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard at an Atlantic coast shipyard. The air craft carrier at the shipyard. People at the shipyard to see the launching ceremony. People cheer as the aircraft carrier sails out into the sea.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Cars parked on the road side. President Roosevelt arrives at the new chapel and drives up footpath to the door. Closeup of license plate on the President's 1938 Ford convertible (with hand controls) reads 'Georgia FDR 1938'. Following the dedication service, the President is seen standing supported by door of his car, as he shakes hands with Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop of Atlanta. Standing nearby are Rev. J.D.C. Wilson, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and FDR's neighbor and friend, and former owner of Warm Springs, Georgia Mustian Wilkins, who donated the funds for the chapel. Scene shifts to large group of polio victims, in wheel chairs. Closeup of President Roosevelt. Group of polio victims , in their wheel chairs, posing outside a Foundation building, with McCarthy Cottage and the E.T. Curtis Cottage in background.
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