Republican Presidential and Democratic Senator Primaries in California in 1964. U.S. Senator Barry Morris Goldwater emerges from a car and receives congratulations for being nominated for President in United States Republican Presidential Primary. Governor of New York, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, exits from a bus and meets delegates. Nelson Rockefeller addressees a large crowd as he loses the U.S. Republican Presidential Primary. Barry Goldwater speaks to a large crowd during the presidential campaign. People applaud and cheer for the nominees. Elevated aerial views of part of harbor and city of San Francisco California. Exterior views of the Cow Palace arena near San Francisco, California, which will be site of the Republican National Convention of 1964. Next scene shows Alan Cranston, California Senate Controller, casting vote in a ballot box for Democratic Senatorial Primary. Pierre Emil George Salinger, former Press Secretary, wins the Senatorial nomination in the Democratic party. He is greeted by his wife. He is congratulated by his supporters and party.
The aftermath of Allied bombing in Milan, Italy during World War II. Italians walking around damaged buildings and rubble on the ground after heavy bombing. Damaged La Scala Opera House (Via Filodrammatici, 2, 20121 Milano MI, Italy) after the bombings. Interiors of the opera showing its damaged dome. Damage sustained in the Palazzo Marino (Piazza della Scala, 2, 20121 Milano MI, Italy), near the La Scala Opera House. A statue of Italian poet Alessandro Manzoni (Piazza S. Fedele, 20121 Milano MI, Italy) still stands among the rubble of the surroundings. Behind the statue is the Church of Saint Fidelis (Piazza S. Fedele, 4, 20121 Milano MI, Italy). Damaged glass dome of the famous shopping mall Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (P.za del Duomo, 20123 Milano MI, Italy). Italian men walking in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II after bombing. Exteriors of the Ospedale Maggiore (now known as the Policlinico di Milano Via Francesco Sforza, 35, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) after bombings. Corridors of a building with rubble spread all over. Cars and pedestrians on a street and damaged buildings in the background. The neighborhood of San Babila with significant damage. Basilica di San Babila exteriors after bombing. Damaged exterior of the famous Duomo Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy). Rose windows of the Duomo Cathedral. Damaged body of a naked statue. People close the doors of the Duomo Cathedral.
Democratic Lyndon Baines Johnson elected as the President of United States for his second term in the presidential elections of 1964. A large crowd raises posters of Lyndon B Johnson and cheers in his support. Voters cast their votes during the elections. President Johnson and his Vice President Hubert Humphrey wave towards the crowd after Johnson defeats Republican Barry Goldwater.
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps during an interview at Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He answers questions related to Presidential election of 1964. He accepts his name being mentioned as a Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate but says that the final decision will be taken at the party convention. He says that Senator Goldwater does not have great chances of winning against President Johnson because of the latter's popularity.
Scene opens aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) as crews position several Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircrafton steam catapults under the direction of a yellow shirt aircraft handling officer. Next, the aircraft are seen being launched. Camera follows one leaving the flight deck and proceeding over the water. Closeup of deck crew working down under an aircraft as it moves into position for launch. View from above the flight deck shows two A-4 aircraft on catapults. Tail code AB on the closest one identifies it as belonging to Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1). Scene shifts to a catapult crew preparing an Vought F-8E Crusader aircraft for catapulting. Three crew work at the front and two at the back of the aircraft. They fasten the bridle cable. View of the aircraft being catapulted. Narrator identifies Kenneth Wilson, launch crew hold back man who is fastening the tension bar to the tail of the plane while men at the front are hooking up to the catapult shuttle. Closeup of the tension bar holding the aircraft back, while engines are set at full power. View of catapult control panel, as it is fired and the holdback bar releases. Next an F-8 of Squadron VF-11 taxis into position, and is likewise prepared for catapulting. An F-8E viewed from the front as it launches. Cables sliding back across the deck after launch where green shirts viewed through steam rising from catapults attend to them. View from cockpit of an aircraft taxiing onto the catapult. An F-8E taxied into position and readied to launch. View of pilot in cockpit. deck crew members signaling. Aircraft is launched. An E-1B propeller-driven early warning aircraft of Squadron VAW-12 taxis onto a catapult. Views of the green shirts setting its cables for catapulting. Remainder of film is a montage of catapulting from viewpoint of green shirts setting cables and aircraft launching. At end, the launches are completed (24 planes in 12 minutes) and the deck crews get a well-earned respite.
U.S. Navy pilot, Lieutenant Junior Grade, Everett Alvarez, Jr., in flight suit and helmet, being taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. View of his military identification card. Lt Avarez being interrogated by North Vietnamese officers. Destruction by U.S. air strikes on North Vietnam. Wreckage of buildings. Remains of buildings. Lt Alvarez's clothing and survival gear, including his dog tags and keys. The retrieved wreckage of his A-4D aircraft is on display and being explained to North Vietnamese in a public gathering.