33rd U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses a huge gathering at a ground breaking of the Reynolda Campus of Wake Forest College in North Carolina. President is shown arriving in a U.S. Air force C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft. Terminal of the airport can be seen. People have gathered to welcome the president. Clip shows several views of his speech at the ground-breaking ceremony and views of his arrival and departure from the airport. On arrival he is seen shaking hands with North Carolina governor W. Kerr Scott. He also greets College President Harold W. Tribble. During the Wake Forest University ground-breaking ceremony other dignitaries seen include Charles Babcock, Judge Hubert Olive, Odis Mull. Students and citizens seen in audience listening to President, including some students waving confederate flags.
New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Replacements walk from range to training area. A board showing 'First Team Combat Reaction Course Training Area'. Another board reads 'Welcome Hanoi Village'. Soldiers walk under the sign. Soldiers in dense forest, they look for mines and traps. Instructor addresses soldiers while holding a class in forest, on mines and booby traps. (Vietnam War period).
Fire in the forests of Northern Minnesota. Farmers in the burnt forest. Burnt tractor in a devastated field. Winds blow at 100 miles per hour due to first hurricane of the season in Florida. A petrol pump surrounded by water. A drum floats on water. A house during wind blow. A car sunk half in water.
Scenes of jungle forests in the Asmat region of Netherlands New Guinea (presently Papua province, Indonesia). Pilot and copilot inside the plane. Boats and plane searching in water. Photograph of Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. People searching in forest. Local Asmat tribesmen clearing a field. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller with Michael's twin sister Mary Strawbridge. Governor Rockefeller speaking.
A-4 missile of Germany is fired during a test launch in Peenemunde in Germany. Missile is misfired and it drops and crashes in forest area. Fire spreads across the forest. Firefighters spray water to extinguish fire. Wreckage of the missile is seen as smoke emits from it. (World War II period).
Travel views along road through forest leading to Makah Air Force Station radar site in Washington. Road alongside tall trees and forest.