A documentary "Summer of Judgment" hosted by Charles McDowell about events and happenings of the Watergate scandal and hearings of the Senate-Watergate Committee in Washington DC. Photographs of five persons arrested for illegally breaking into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Watergate Buildings in Washington DC. Glimpses of the U.S. President Richard Nixon during a press session; Audio only of Nixon saying "...there can be no White Wash at the White House." Picture in picture segments showing selected quotes from Watergate hearings, including Sam Ervin calling the Committee to order; John Dean testifying, "I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the Presidency"; Senator Howard Baker asking "What did the President know, and when did he know it"? View of Los Angeles Times news paper headlines during the course of Watergate hearings. Report about President Nixon associates who gave their resignations. News correspondent reporting from the Senate Caucus Room, where hearings took place. President Nixon's secretary Dean John speaks before the committee. Correspondent relates plan to summarize the Watergate scandal from when the burglars were caught to the resignation of President Nixon.
World War II Merchant Marine Officer candidates learn seamanship in New York, United States. The Merchant Marine Academy officer candidates study aboard a ship. An officer shows his quarters to two candidates. He shows caps on a wall and books in a shelf. A candidate meets an officer to get a review of his work. The officer gives him a certificate. John Barry Hall in honor of John Barry "The Father of the American Navy" ; Fulton Hall in honor of Robert Fulton, the developer of the first commercially successful steamboat; Wiley Hall , Palmer Hall, Patton Hall, Delano Hall and O'hara Hall. Pictures of Edwin J O'hara and soldiers fighting in a war.
U.S. forces occupy abandoned Japanese outpost on Kiska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska during World War II. An American soldier samples Japanese rice ration and another drinks a bottle of Japanese beer. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Corlett, Commander of Amphibious Force 9, Lt. Gen. John L. Dewitt Commander of Western Defense Command, and Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy, inspect the island. Heavy construction equipment and supplies unloaded at the beach. U.S. Army engineers commence building a U.S. base on Kiska. Soldiers hold a Japanese flag.
Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes commander of United States 52nd Aviation Company in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese children at a Montagnard village of Plei-Mrong. Young girls with babies tied to their backs. A Vietnamese man in a cloak seated on the ground as he smokes a long pipe. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes gives candies to children. A woman grins as she looks at him. An old Vietnamese man holding gifts.
Eminent prisoners held in Nazi German prison camps in Germany are seen being released after the Allied victory during World War II. Snow covered Alps in Germany. A villa in the mountains. Eminent prisoners released from German camps include wife of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, the Baroness Schuschnigg, industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prince Leopold of Prussia, German General Franz Halder, Anti-Nazi Pastor Martin Niemöller, Allied pilots, Lieutenant John Winant (son of American Ambassador to England), Lord George Lascelles, the nephew of King George VI, John Alexander Elphinstone, Michael Alexander, and Max de Hamel, cousin of Winston Churchill. Scene changes to Magdeburg, Germany where German General Kurt Dittmar,a Nazi radio broadcaster (Official Military Commentator of the German Armed Forces), together with his son, young soldier Berend Dittmar, surrenders to American soldiers of the U.S. Army 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, on April 25, 1945.
A reunion of former USAF Thunderbird aerobatic team members at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. USAF Major General John N. Ewbank at a microphone with Captain John R. Crane beside him. USAF Major General Charles Hoffman Pottenger along with other officials and people watch the performance. USAF C-54 Skymaster and USAF C-123 Provider parked on the air base. Captain Charles R Maultsby, Captain Robert L. Cass and Captain Robert D. Janca talk amongst themselves. An airman stands on the wing of an aircraft.
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