Views inside the Strategic Air Command Headquarters Command and Control Center at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska. Six huge display screens cover the wall and controllers at monitoring stations are seen in semi-dark environment. An Air force Senior Master Sergeant stands near one of the control stations, as he calls up various computer-driven displays, which are shown onmonitors depicting the distribution and status of SAC's world wide assets at any moment. An Air Force Colonel occupies the Senior Controller's position on the main floor of the Command Post. Camera focuses on the Colonel, and his "fruit salad" (rows of military ribbons); his Command Pilot's wings; and the eagle's on the shoulders of his uniform. Scene shifts to variety of telephones in different colors. Looking over the shoulder of the Colonel, the camera focuses on a gold phone providing a direct line to the President of the United States; the National Military Command Center in Washington, DC; and to other Major Command Headquarters. Red and Gray phones comprise SACs primary alert system and show numerous connections to sites in the 2nd and 15th Air Forces. Closeup of the red phone control board. Scene shifts to a B-52 bomber in flight, and to pilots in a B-52 cockpit. The SAC Senior Controller, Colonel, on the gray phone, ostensibly talking to the B-52 pilots.
A group of people standing underneath a tree and looking up. A cat is stuck in the branches of a tree. A young man climbs up the thorny branches to rescue t cat and brings it down. The cat was stuck for 120 hrs in isolation. People are happy to have their pictures clicked with the cat.
28th President of the United States,Thomas Woodrow Wilson talking to Press correspondents. He is leaving for the Paris Peace Conference and is seen aboard the ship SS George Washington. Ship's officers and and a sailor can be seen in the background.
Dr. R.H. Lord, the American representative on the Commission of Polish affairs, George Louis Beer, the American Authority on colonial issues, and Mark Jefferson, Chief Cartographer for the American Peace Commission at the postwar negotiations seen talking amongst themselves. They are leaving for the Paris Peace Conference on the USS George Washington ship. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Italian ambassador to the United States,Count Vincenzo Macchi Di Cellere is seen with his family. He is showing something to a little boy.
French ambassador and diplomat Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand with former ambassador to Italy and France, Henry White seen talking to each other. They are leaving for the Paris Peace Conference. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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