MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. United States Senator Bourke B Hickenlooper, Milton R. Young, and United States Ambassador to Cambodia, Carl W. Strom tour the ruins of Angkor Wat. They look at a broken statue. Officials take pictures with their cameras. Bas relief carvings on walls, statues at entrance of the temple. A statue of four headed Lord Shiva on dome of the temple. Banyan or Kapok tree in Angkor Wat.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Banyan tree branches growing on stone walls and ruins. Board reads 'Baray Occidental Irrigation Project Dam'. Water flows from the Baray Occidental dam. Ruins of large statues. Milestone reads 'Angkor Wath 1'.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Cambodian women walk on road. They walk past a stone marker “Angkor-Wath”. Men and women with carts move along the road. Woman tosses rice in a circular basket. Cambodian girl pounds rice.
MAAG (Military Assistance and Advisory Group) Mission in Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Rice next to a local wooden pounding machine. Cambodian woman wearing do’un conical hat walks on road with cattle. Young boys seated on water buffaloes. View of rice fields near Angkor Wat.
Dedication ceremony of the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. Former President of United States Harry S. Truman at the dedication ceremony of the library. Dignitaries including Chief Justice Earl Warren, Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Bess Truman, and Eleanor Roosevelt at the ceremony. Ten thousand people gather for the Masonic rites of dedication. Republican Senate leader William Fife Knowland receives a deed on behalf of the government. Interiors of the library that houses 3 ½ million documents of Truman's seven-year term. At the Truman Museum pictures of Truman with former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Another picture of Truman after winning the presidential election of 1944.
Operation Plumbbob atomic bomb testing in Nevada, United States. A plastic balloon carries an atom bomb at the Yucca Flats proving ground. A technician at the controls with a monitor showing the image of the balloon. Engineers and newsmen wear dark glasses. An atomic explosion occurs, and a mushroom cloud is formed. Marines huddle in a trench. Helicopters in flight as they carry the marines to the site of the explosion.