The orbital flight of Friendship 7 under project Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying John Herschel Glenn Jr from the United States. A communication tower. Operators speak on a microphone in the communication room. A screen tracks the path traveled by Friendship 7 . A technician writes on a control panel. Technicians communicate with each other. Mercury tracking of the spacecraft shows the path traveled and two circles stop glowing as the contact is lost. A communication tower and control room on a beach area. Mercury tracking system shows Friendship 7 departing from its path and altitude due to failure of the inter system. The equipment on tower to control the path of Mercury-Atlas 6 manually. Cattle walk past the control center at night.
A documentary film about the people and biblical art in Nazareth, Palestine. Aerial view of the houses in the city of Nazareth. Women carry water pots across a road. A painting “Christ in the House of His Parents” by John Everett Millais.
American field service volunteers in France during World War I. Officers come out of a building. They get into a military truck. American field service volunteers readying for service. A man shaves and another man wipes his face. Volunteers eat. Volunteers stand in a line. Officer reviews volunteers. Officers come out of a building including American, French, and British Allied officers. Officers stand and talk in a courtyard, including United States Army General John Pershing. Officers followed by volunteers march. An American Red Cross ambulance being driven away. Line of American Red Cross ambulances parked in a line. Volunteers emerge from truck and divide up to drive away the Ambulances. Volunteers carry an injured soldier on stretcher into the ambulance. Ambulance being driven over a rough road and discharging wounded at a field hospital.
President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Troops in formation with all services color guard. President Johnson goes to a platform. Officials salute the President. He steps down from the platform with General William C Westmoreland. The President and General Westmoreland review troops in an open jeep (driven by John P. Ward of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin). Both then return to the platform. Troops march at the air base. President Johnson pins medals on U.S. military men.
Nazi spies involved in Operation Pastorius are tried in the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington DC. The exteriors of the Supreme Court of the United States. The captured would-be saboteurs are taken to the Court in armored paddy wagons to be tried for espionage, attempted sabotage, and treason. View of the accused riding in the vans, and the vans entering near court building. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent digs with a shovel on sand beaches in Long Island, New York, to find explosives stored there by the spies. FBI agent shows the incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic shore from a submarine. An FBI agent shows captured uniforms, belt containing money, wooden blocks loaded with hidden detonator caps, pens and pencils that contain incendiaries to start fires. An indendiary pencil is demonstrated. Seven U.S. Army Generals, appointed by President Roosevelt to hear the case, are seen outside the court building. The Generals enter the court. Two high ranking U.S. officers appointed to defend the accused are seen as they enter the court. Prisoners enter the court, escorted by guards. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, John Edgar Hoover, enters the courtroom. The officers sit. Attorney General of the United States Francis Beverley Biddle present and seen during court proceedings. Prisoners sit during the trial. (World War II period).
Atomic and hydrogen bomb tests' effects in Japan and the United States. Japan: Newsmen and cameramen stand in the Tokyo Medical University hospital. Head of the hospital Doctor Suzuki greets Chief of the Hiroshima atom casualty commission John Morton. The doctors examine the fishermen burned during the Enewetak (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) hydrogen bomb tests. San Francisco: A crane lowers net of Tuna fish in San Francisco. An official wears belt with a Geiger counter. Food and drug officials check the fishes for radioactive contamination. Fort Devens Massachusetts: The members of the 1st Army Chemical Defense school are confronted with simulated atomic bomb explosions. Soldiers advance through the smoke of explosion.
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