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Search for survivors after collapse of U.S. Air Force Radar Station (Texas Tower No. 4,TT-4) in the Atlantic ocean, off Long Island.
Search and rescue efforts after the destruction of Texas Tower Number 4, a U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command Offshore Radar station, in 1961. It was located off Long Island (39degrees48'N 72degrees40'W) and operated by airmen of the 646th Radar Squadron. It had experienced structural difficulties including damage from Hurricane Donna, on September 12, 1960 and was being scheduled for repair or dismantling. The USNS New Bedford and the USS Wasp were in the vicinity, on January 15, 1961, when the storm caused the Tower to collapse and sink.But they were unable to save anyone. In subsequent search and rescue operations, after the storm, The USS Sunbird (ASR-15) submarine rescue ship is seen at the site, along with sailors in a motor whaleboat from the USS Blandy (DD-943). A helicopter from the USS Wasp (CV-18)flies overhead. A scuba diver surfaces near the whaleboat and is taken aboard. A motor whaleboat from the USS Sunbird maneuvers in rough water. Whaleboats seen returning sailors and divers to the Sunbird.
The agricultural reforms and people's communes under Mao Zedong's 'Great Leap Forward' plan in China.
Agricultural conditions in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong photographed by an Indian delegation visiting the country. Mao Zedong implements the economic and social plan titled 'Great Leap Forward' with Soviet help in 1958. The agricultural aspects of the plan (during which the great famine in China took place). The Chinese countryside. Farmers use tractors, machines, and other equipment for farming. Farmers plow fields, thresh crop and make haystacks using pitchforks. Men and women dig farmland. Millions of Chinese peasant people are organized to work the land, clear land, build dams and dig canals. Peasants working in Communist government-organized People's Communes for farming. Farmers work, cultivate and harvest crops using human labor to make up for lack of machinery. Chinese peasants seen farming barren land also affected by floods and locust. People engaged in construction work. People's Republic of China Chairman Mao Zedong visits the communes. The commune system is abandoned in 1961 in favor of collective agriculture. Small units of 20 farm families cultivate land as directed by local farmers. Farmers cultivate land, harvest crops. Men and women pick cotton. Young Chinese boys and girls attend university in China. Young boys on bicycles. University students in a classroom. The university campus. Children on the playground in a school. They perform the 'Turnip Dance' on stage as other children and teachers watch.
John F Kennedy inaugurated as 35th President of U.S. in Washington DC.
Transfer of office from outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower to President elect John F Kennedy. Exterior view of the White House after a snow fall. View of Kennedy sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. View of part of the National Mall in the snow, with Washington Monument in the distance in Washington DC. John F Kennedy with wife Jacqueline Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Vice President Richard Nixon, former President Harry Truman, members of Congress, Supreme Court Judges, Diplomats, representatives of the art and literature community including contralto singer Marian Anderson and poet Robert Frost, Vice-President elect Lyndon Johnson, and others walking in the U.S. Capitol Building toward the inauguration ceremony seating. John F Kennedy takes Presidential Oath of Office administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren witnessed by a large crowd. President begins his Inaugural speech. 20 January 1961.
John F Kennedy's Inaugural speech as 35th President of U.S. in Washington DC.
John F Kennedy gives inaugural speech on being elected as 35th President of U.S. in Washington DC. He raises issues of employment for poor, making United Nations more powerful and a new beginning for peace with adversaries through negotiation. 20 January 1961.
U.S. President John F Kennedy's Inaugural Parade as 35th President of U.S. in Washington DC.
President John F Kennedy and wife Jacqueline Kennedy in Inauguration Parade cheered by crowd in Washington DC. Parade includes floats presented by various states and military. Float representing President's home state Massachusetts and its Governor John A Volpe and Vice President Lyndon Johnson's home state Texas. President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson with their wives at the Inaugural Ball introduce members of the Cabinet, Secretary of State Dean Rusk with his wife, Secretary of Treasury C Douglas Dillon with his wife, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and wife, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, and Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson and his Daughter-in-Law.The following day all the cabinet members and John F Kennedy taking charge. 20 January 1961.
NATO staff in normal activities. Relationship between defense activities and broader commercial and exploratory advances
NATO staff taking advantage of nice weather to relax a few minutes after lunch. Several women staff members are seen seated on park benches. Two women on a park bench. One turns to lie down near her companion. Scene shifts to French fliers ralaxing in grass. Two in flying gear, including personal flotation vests, are playing chess. Several French Dassault MD.452 Mystere jet fighter planes are parked on a flight line in the background. Elsewhere, two NATO staff men play ping pong. Two others engage in a fencing match. On a sandy shore, two soldiers engage in hand-to-hand combat, while their comrades stand in a line watching. In a park-like setting, several men are playing bocce (bocci). Two men stroll together engaged in somewhat serious conversation. In a casual lounge area of the headquarters, several staff converse with foreign counterparts in the NATO staff. Scene shifts to view from above of open freight train moving along a track, next to an open air depot, where another train of supplies is parked and wheeled cargo handling equipment is stored on the train platform. Renault automobiles moving on an assembly line in a factory. Aircraft landing gears being lowered during testing at a factory. View from above of shadow on the ground cast by a French Caravelle jet transport plane in flight. Two specialists in serious conversation at a technical laboratory. Views of the laboratory and some experimental (seemingly atomic in nature) equipment. A technician engaged in ancillary activities in a laboratory. (Narrator comments about switching the Mark XYZ rocket from defense to space probes.) Next, Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., in his silver pressure suit with the helmet visor closed, steps from a trailer marked "NASA TV No 1." Scene shifts to the rocket launch control room, where NASA controllers at their respective stations monitor video images of Shepard boarding the Mercury capsule. They monitor data pertaining to the status of the rocket and capsule. The Mercury Redstone 3 rocket, carrying Shepard's Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, is next seen in a fiery launch on May 5, 1961.at 9:34 a.m. from P:ad 5 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (It carried Shepard on a suborbital trajectory lasting 15 minutes and 22 seconds, making him the first American to fly into space.)
