Alliance of Progress initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to establish economic cooperation between North and South America. The exhibition of the program is inaugurated in Mexico City. A sign reads (translated) 'Exploration of Space'. A space craft on display. The visitors look at the spacecraft that is exhibited. A screen showing the launch of a missile of the NASA program. A group of men and women look at the screen. A man demonstrates the working of satellite. A group of boy and girl Mexican children view the display. In the United States, two boys wearing Boy Scout uniforms view a display of a satellite model spinning in space, and three adult stand behind them. The visitors entering the exhibition ground. A poster of Kennedy at the entrance.
Leon Trotsky converses with his lawyer Albert Goldman in Mexico. Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky reads in garden. Mexican policemen guard building entrances. Trees in the background. Trotsky works at desk. He reads from documents strewn upon a table. He provides details to his lawyer Mr Albert Goldman. Trotsky interacts with a woman.
President John F. Kennedy visits Mexico. The President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy moves in a motorcade through the streets followed by a ticker tape parade. Civilians lined up on either side of the street cheer. They hold banners. A luncheon is organized in honor of President Kennedy. The President addresses a gathering. Dignitaries raise a toast. He visits the site of a government sponsored low cost housing project. Residents shake hands with the President. American and Mexican flags flutter in wind from a building. Portraits of Kennedy and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos placed on buildings. President Kennedy meets Mexican officials during a table conference. They discuss new measures to reduce contamination in the Colorado River. He visits tombs of Mexican Heroes. An archbishop prays for the success of the President's visit during a Mass service. President Kennedy get in a car and heads for an airport.
View of a Mexican beach resort city’s coast and surrounding hillsides (likely Puerto Vallarta, near Mexico City). White boats sail by the coast. A water skier skims the water surface behind a small tow boat. View of Mexican shanties. View of main avenue in Mexican city.
View of giant cypress sheltered Montezuma in fenced area in Mexico City. Mule drawn wooden carts on streets. Local children play. Man leads two donkeys heavily loaded with sticks. People with hats and blankets. Men gathered around peddler selling caged birds on street. Jugs and bottles piled up in front for selling. Woman and children sit by wooden pole in the balcony with chickens and dog. Donkeys in the background. View of thatched roof.
View of Spanish patio in Mexico City. Patio surrounded by fruit trees, flowers and fountains. Woman holding papaya stands next to Papaya tree. Spanish women in patio. Man standing next to poinsettia tree.