Development in North Vietnam. Vietnamese women work in fields. They collect hay bundles. Vietnamese workers plow field with tractors. Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh visits a factory. He gives a brief speech from a stage in an open ground. Interiors of a factory. Large cranes at a construction site.
Vietnamese men and women attend classes in North Vietnam. An instructor takes a class. He reads from a backboard in the front. Vietnamese women cycle on a street. Vietnamese students in a class. Young Vietnamese look through microscopes in a laboratory. Framed pictures of North Vietnamese leaders. A picture of Ho Chi Minh. A young girl waters plants. A cherry blossom plant.
Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh in North Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh reads a book seated at a desk. Interiors of Ho Chi Minh's house with his bed, table, chair and cupboard. He comes down stairs. Ho Chi Minh waters a plant. He plays with young Vietnamese children. Children clap their hands.
United Nations considers Katanga crisis in a meeting at its Headquarters in New York. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold calls for a resolution for speedy withdrawal of Belgium troops from Katanga in Congo. Officials from Congo seated during the meeting. General Dag Hammarskjold asks the Congo officials to settle the issues among themselves as UN will not interfere with the matter.
Candidates during the Presidential campaign in Washington D.C. Dwight D. Eisenhower seated in an office. President Eisenhower admonishes the Senate to set politics aside to complete important legislation. Republican Presidential candidate Vice President Richard Nixon with officials. Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson wave at a waiting crowd.
Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro makes an appearance before the Pan-American Youth Congress in Havana. He announcers the seizure of three quarters of a billion dollars of U.S. property in Cuba. People hold banners of 'Havana' and 'Venezuela'. The crowd cheers.