ewsreel clip on the Atlanta Braves bringing major league baseball to the South. View of the downtown Atlanta skyline in 1966, followed by view of Atlanta Stadium. Thousands of people line the streets to welcome the Braves in a pre-game parade that proceeds South along Peachtree Street towards Five Corners, in the heart of the city. View of road sign at Peachtree and Houston streets. Banners reading "Welcome Braves." One car carries coach Ken Silvestri, Ken Johnson (#30), and Hank Fischer (#34). Closeup of them waving to the crowd. An intrepid boy watching from atop a traffic light. Boys and girls standing in front of adults on the sidewalk. One small boy sits on the sidewalk curb. The Players ride in wide 1960s-style open convertible cars and wave to the crowd. Other players seen include #19 Dennis Menke, #43 Rico Carty, and #35 Phil Niekro. Views inside Atlanta Stadium, filled with 50,000 spectators for the first game. Tony Cloninger delivers a pitch for the Braves, who would go onto to lose this game and the next.
U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy officers in Palomares, Spain after a United States Air Forces Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber crash incident and during aircraft salvage operations of 1966. Civilians stand around outside a command tent at Camp Wilson. U.S. RADM (Rear Admiral) William A. Guest, USAF Major General Delmar E. Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Spain Angier Biddle Duke, Spanish Minister of Health and Spanish Minister of Air come out of the command tent and get into cars. A car pulls away. A group of officers approaches a helicopter pad area. A civilian with a Spanish high ranking officer. A civilian photographer photographs the group. A Spanish helicopter in the helicopter area. Several dignitaries alongside the helicopter. Women guests get off the helicopter assisted by the Spanish officer. A group of Spanish teenagers looks on. A large group at the helicopter area. Dignitaries including RADM Guest, Major General Wilson and many civilians depart from tent. They walk down a road at the USAF Command Post.
Significant events and happenings in the year 1966. Seven nation summit conference on Vietnam in Manila. Pope Paul VI meets with the Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey in Rome, Italy. Wedding of the year in which President Lyndon Johnson's daughter, Luci Baines Johnson weds Patrick Nugent. Rescue workers take out victims of floods and landslides in various parts of world. American people cast their votes in the elections.
Officers walk with prisoners during the exchange of prisoners at Jordan-Israel border, several weeks after the Arab-Israeli Six Day War. Two soldiers take an injured prisoner. Prisoners cross Allenby Bridge during the exchange program. Two israeli pilots and 424 Jordanian troops go to their respective homelands in a swap supervised by the Red Cross.
Men looking at the wreckage of a bombed out building during the Arab-Israeli war. Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF) with wreckage of Egyptian plane. Views of street. Unexploded bomb found. Egyptian insignia on wreckage of plane. Troops digging trenches. Military plane overhead. Soldiers with wreckage of plane. View of a captured tank. Israeli soldiers on a lookout tower. A damaged building. Wrecked military equipment. Military truck with Israeli 'Star of David' and medical corps insignia. Plane overhead. Body is carried out from a building as soldiers try to put out the fire. Israeli soldier near Egyptian plane on ground. Men keeping watch in a high watch tower.
This film is in two parts: The Cedars of Lebanon and The history of Israel. The first part of the film is Lebanon Mountains and buildings. Cedar trees in a gorge of Kadisha Valley. Stones kept in front of a 900 year old tree and is looked after by a Maronite priest. A Maronite chapel. People come out of the chapel. Trees inscribed with the names of famous men who visited them. Second Part of film is in Israel: The Onrus River. A water wheel which irrigates the fields. The stones in a temple. Men dig earth to take out stones. The comparison of an area with a model of the Solomon's Temple. The north east corner of the Solomon's model. The south east corner of the area. The model of the Solomon's Temple. A wall under the temple. An aerial view of the city. The back view of the Solomon's Temple. An animated map shows the division of the temple between Israel and Judea after the death of Solomon.