Fourth Annual Brass Band Championship in Kerkrade,Netherlands. The teams give their performances as heavy rain pours down. Large crowd of spectators cheer the teams. The New Jersey team, Clifton High School wins the marching contest. They stand second in the musical performance.
Trotting Championship in New York, United States. Large crowd of spectators gather. The Trotting Championship begins. Spectators cheer the riders as they ride through the race course.
Astronaut Walter Marty Schirra Junior being honored at the White House in Washington D.C. President of the United States, John F. Kennedy receives astronaut Walter Marty Schirra Junior and his family. They discuss the 9 hours long space flight aboard Mercury-Atlas 8. Walter Marty Schirra addresses the reporters. His wife and children accompanied him. After the speech Walter and his wife proceed to Pentagon. United States Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth presents Astronaut Wings to Walter M Schirra for his six orbit space flight. Schirra's children wait outside the Pentagon as their father receives new honors from the U.S. Navy.
United States President John F. Kennedy addresses large crowd in Philadelphia. Large crowd gathered at the Independence Square (111 S Independence Mall W, Philadelphia, PA 19106, United States). The United States flag on top of a flagpole. President Kennedy addresses the crowd, predicts the “Declaration of Interdependence” will bring the United States into a concrete Atlantic partnership with Europe. The gathering applauds.
United States Space Team in Houston, Texas. A banner reads Manned Spacecraft Center. The civilians welcome and greet the astronauts as they pass through the streets of Houston in cars. American astronaut Walter Marty Schirra Junior leads the gala parade. His fellow astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper Junior, Scott Carpenter, Gus Grissom and John Hershel Glenn Junior also attended the parade. The astronauts receive cowboy hats also known as ten-gallon hats and Deputy Sheriff Badges during the welcome ceremony at Sam Houston Coliseum (800 Bagby Street Houston, Texas United States).
Hollywood actor Rock Hudson presents and receives an award in Washington D.C. The award ceremony at the 71st convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The screen star Rock Hudson presents a certificate of merit from the Motion Picture Association to the President of the federation for their work in previewing films over last 20 years. United States Secretary of the Treasury,Clarence Douglas Dillon presents a Liberty Bell to Rock Hudson for his success as a salesman of the Savings Bonds and making a Savings Bond Trailer on the set of the film "The Spiral Road".
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