U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson at a Press Conference and signing ceremony in Washington D.C. , United States. Officials converse with each other. Press reporters preparing before the press conference. President Johnson speaks into a microphone. Reporters take notes. Photographers take pictures. People watch the President on television. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. Nearby officials include Hubert Humphrey, Everett Dirksen, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy. Officials shake hands with the President. Close views of smiling officials greeting the President after the signing, some holding pens that the President used in the signing. Martin Luther King Jr smiles and speaks to a woman present after the ceremony. Men and women buy and read newspapers at a city newsstand.
Led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin King, Jr., African Americans, joined by some white supporters, especially white clergymen, proceed on a second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, to call attention to racial discrimination. Signs identify the Alabama River and the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The march is halted temporarily on the bridge. An older white man and woman, who seem to be known to local people, come forward and lead the march, without interference, allowing marchers to proceed to the end of the bridge.
Guillermo Mendana, a civil servant, makes a portrait with a typewriter in his office in Spain. He proves his ingenuity as an artist of the keyboard. Mendana shows a woman a portrait of a boy made using his typewriter. A Spanish boy’s portrait made by a typewriter and a magazine. Mendana places various typewriter-made portraits of various subjects including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pope Pius XII, cats, and a famous Spanish arch. A typewriter-made portrait of the Big Ben in London, England.
Heinrich Himmler toasts German Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein, his liaison officer on Hitler's personal staff, and Eva Braun's sister, Gretl, following the civil ceremony wedding of Fegelein and Braun in Salzburg at the Palace of Mirabell. The couple are greeted by other military officers. Gretl Braun Fegelein is presented flowers. As they are exiting the room the couple stops and talks to Martin Bormann. The couple gets into a car and drive away, bound for a wedding reception.
Inca ruins of Tiwanaku in Bolivia. United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) sends archaeologists to the ancient Inca ruins. Articles of lost civilization are found during the square mile excavation. Workers dig with shovels. A man displays an article. Men pull out a three ton stone with ropes. 'Gateway of the Sun' in view.
Operation Cue nuclear bomb testing conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada, United States. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic explosion on buildings and houses. The members of the United States Civil Defense Administration prepare for the atomic bomb test. The men take out equipment from the car parked outside a house. After nuclear detonation, the house explodes, fragments in the air. The impact of the explosion on the house.
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