Newly appointed President of United States Lyndon Johnson in a file television interview as the then Vice President at his ranch in Texas. He talks about his achievements in public life over the years. He speaks about how as a Senator he worked for the many causes including construction of a dam over the Colorado River, Civil Rights Bills, and his role in the Johnson-McCormack act in 1958. He also talks about his contribution to various ongoing projects like equal employment,man on moon program.
A news presenter reminds viewers that the interview with now-President Johnson was recorded a couple of weeks back when he was still Vice President. He also informs that an interview with Mrs. Lyndon Johnson from that earlier time is about to follow. Mrs. Ladybird Johnson says that at the time of her marriage she had never expected that her husband would go on to become Vice President of United States. She says that it is because people have understood her husband that is why they have chosen him to the office of the Vice President of United States.
Newly appointed President of United States Lyndon Johnson rides on a horse back at his ranch in Texas. The presenter states that Johnson often moves about his ranch in a car,electric go cart or on a horse back praising his cattle. The news presenter speaks about a unique feature of the LBJ ranch i.e. the Friendship Walk. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson along with their elder daughter Lynda shows the area to the interviewer. It has the names of all the famous people engraved on the stones in the lawn who have visited the ranch. The interviewer thanks the Johnson family for their kind cooperation and bids them adieu. The presenter informs that this informal visit at the LBJ ranch was shot weeks before the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy.
A newsreel titled 'Death penalty for A-spies Rosenbergs get top penalty in atomic trial'. Convicts Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell, accused of revealing atomic secrets to Russia, emerge from the police paddy wagon van at Foley Square court house in New york in United states. Policemen accompany them as they enter the building. Wife of Julius Rosenberh, Ethel Rosenberg arrives at the court as people throng outside the building. Police brings Ethel's brother and a government witness David Greenglass to the court. After the verdict photographers take pictures of judge Irving Kaufman who sentenced the Rosenberg couple to death in electric chair while Sobell was sentenced to thirty years of imprisonment. A U.S. Marshal paddy wagon carrying the convicts leaves the court as photographers click pictures.
Nearly 75,000 New Yorkers throng Broadway to watch French President Vincent Auriol’s welcome parade towards the City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States). Parade of soldiers carrying flags of United States and playing drums, march on lower Broadway. At the New York City Hall, Mayor Vincent Richard Impellitteri confers a Distinguished Service scroll on the French president. Impellitteri is awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Auriol. Photographers take pictures of the ceremony. The French president and the Mayor Impellitteri along with other officials come out in the gallery of the hall and shake hands as soldiers parade down the street and crowds cheer them on.
A big haul of turtles is brought onshore in Florida in United States. Turtles are taken off from the boat as they are taken away on their backs to the cannery. A kid sits onto a turtle's back whereas another turtle moves close to a tin of turtle food.
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