On a sketch of the Texas School Book Depository Building 6th floor, a narrator points out locations pertinent to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Camera shows stacks of boxes near windows on the 6th floor of the Building, as it pans across the scene. It focuses on a reconstructed scene of boxes near the window with Elm Street below to the right. A Secret Service agent is shown sitting in a position believed the same as the assassin and pointing in the direction that his rifle would have been.Views out the window of traffic moving on streets below. Next, an open convertible car is seen accompanied by two motorcycle police, simulating the movement of the President's motorcade as it turned from Main onto Houston Street. Narrator notes that next turn, from Houston onto Elm Street is quite sharp and driven very slowly. Narrator describes the shots fired as the car retraces specific locations on the route. Photograph of reenactment made for the President's Commission, using the Secret Service followup car. It shows telescopic sight cross hairs as the assassin would see them. Next the car being driven in the current reenactment is viewed through a four power, 18mm Ordnance Optical Incorporated rifle scope, like the one used by the assassin.That last part of the film is shown again in slow motion.
A man and a boy ride together on a tandem bicycle along a road with a beach in the background. A woman riding a motorcycle on a city street. A man riding an antique Penyy Farthing bicycle with a large front wheel and small back wheel. Two boys riding a bicycle. One of the boys sits atop a silver food delivery box in front of the bike, with writing, "Arturo's 106 W. Houston Street, CH-25315" (from Arturo's Pizzeria in Greenwich Village, New York City). Two people biking through a lot of recreational vehicle homes with a expansive desert landscape in the backround. Boys play baseball and children on swings with their parents watching them. Two of they kids are twin boys, dressed identically, and swinging on the swings in the same rhythm. A boy on a tire swing that hangs from a large tree. Boys huddled on a sidewalk playing a game. Camera angle widens and reveals they are in a ridge-top neighborhood with a large industrial factory belching smoke and pollution into the sky in the background. People entering a church on an Autumn day with blue sky and trees with golden leaves changing color for fall. Male teacher in classroom lecturing at a blackboard. Students appear to be older high school or early college age. Various people seated at desks in an office working, and separately a view of equipment and people working in a laboratory. A man seated at a microscope. 1965.
After completing his flight around the world, aviator Howard Hughes reaches his hometown Houston, Texas. Exterior views of Hughes Tool Company. A man works at machine inside the building. A man closes the main gate of the company. Hughes' Lockheed 14 super electra aircraft lands in Houston, following his record-setting round-the-world flight. Hughes gets off the plane and is greeted by people and a cowboy with a cattle steer. Hughes shakes hands with people.
Views of what would become the Astrodome in Houston Texas while under construction in 1964. Aerial shots show the current, open-air stadium of the Houston Colts baseball team (soon to be renamed the Astros) and the new domed stadium being built a short distance away. Announcer notes the structure covers nine and a half acres. Views of the translucent roof. Views of construction crews working inside the unfinished stadium, which at this point has no grass or turf on the playing field and none of the seating installed. Man in hardhat speaks into walkie-talkie. Worker lifts beam on crane. Welder works on pipe.
Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, makes her speech during the first plenary session of the National Women's Conference at Houston, Texas. She speaks on the ratification of women right to vote and Equal Rights Amendment, with Texas being the 9th state to ratify the 19th Amendment and the 7th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Bella Abzug and other prominent American women present. Thousands of American women present at the event cheer.
Barbara Jordan, U.S. representative from Dallas, Texas, makes her speech during the first plenary session of the National Women's Conference at Houston, Texas. (Conference focused on women's issues, women's rights, and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment). She expresses a need of domestic human rights program fro American women. Prominent American women figures and thousands of other American women present for the equal rights conference give her a standing ovation.
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