Early in Cuban Missile Crisis. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and other of President John Kennedy's advisors arrive at White House. Americans buying newspapers with headlines about the upcoming speech by the President. President Kennedy addresses citizens of America on television, explaining what has been happening in Cuba. U.S. citizens commenting in different manners on the situation. Civil defense shelters shown. Cuban blockade. Supermarket shelves stripped and queues at check outs. Governor Rossolini and Governor Rockefeller at White House to coordinate state civil defense activities. Comments by the governors to the press, talking about civil defense procedures and instructions for sheltering in place with food, water, geiger counter, radio.
Operation Cue (part of Operation Teapot) nuclear test by the United States conducted at Nevada test site in the United States. Vehicles driven on a road early in the morning. Television equipment is hailed at the test site. Media persons and Civil Defense observers gather to study the results of a nuclear blast. Civil Defense personnel assemble with their equipment. A small group of Civil Defense volunteers occupy a trench close to the ground level. Media persons have coffee. Instructions are given on a loudspeaker. Personnel put on eye gear. A countdown starts. Atomic bomb explosion occurs. Test homes being blown away by explosion of a bomb. Power lines burst.
Newly elected members of National Assembly of Japan in a meeting. Members of the House of Representatives wear a button on their collars. Ancient assembly Diet in session. Japanese in a procession to mark the new civil rights celebrations. A judicial trial at a court room is seen. Disestablishment of Shinto religion and people of different religions pray at their places of worship. Japanese children being taught in classroom under a new democratic educational system. Free press in the country, newspapers being printed and sold.
Civil life in Vietnam. Trucks move on a road. Rifle barrel pointing through bush. Rifle barrel pointing and fire. Breech of gun. Several birds scared off from a tree. Various buildings. Interiors of a hospital area with several patients. A young girl lying in bed. Two nuns near a girl with bandages on her head and hand. Dead body of a nun. Fresh grave in a graveyard. Official in a hospital talks to a patient. Bandage on leg of a patient. Officer in uniform talks to Vietnamese boys . Helmet, guns, bombs exhibited. Board over entrance gate reads 'Truong Tieu Hog So Cap'. Children play on a ground of a school, a woman walks past them. Officer places a wreath. Soldiers salute. People stand and watch.
American civilians prepare for an air raid drill in Arkansas, United States. Flashback to 1940 of British citizens gathered in London underground tube shelters during a blitz air raid by Germany over London. A woman distributes snacks to families. Some people at a microphone provide entertainment to the waiting crowd underground during the Battle of Britain. View of aircraft drop bombs over targets on ground. Explosions due to bombing. Back in the United States, Air Raid Warden in his uniform with civil defense armband shows families how to black out basement windows with blankets. Family makes room for basement shelter. Electric gas burners used. Adequate food supplies kept in the basement. One of the room windows sealed to avoid gas entering the room. The curtain dropped quickly over the window when the alarm is raised.
Scenes of new prisoners, in striped garb, being interviewed during investigations of alleged atrocities by the government of former President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Interviewer takes notes as he questions Muguel Angel Duque, former Chief of the Guatemala City Civil Guard. Guatemalan Civil Guard soldiers are seen throughout the compound.
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