Views around the front porch area and front yard of Springwood, the retreat and family home of President Franklin Roosevelt. Stairs, balconies, trees and plants in garden. A car parked out front.
Adlai Stevenson addresses the United Nations Security Council regarding the build up of missiles in Cuba. United State Navy ships form a blockade to stop further missile delivery to Cuba. In Cuba, soldiers operate anti-aircraft guns that have been set up on the waterfront Cuban soldiers hold their posts on streets, tops of buildings, and on posts all along sea shore. Fidel Castro addresses a public demonstration. Cubans seen marching. Signs in the crowd include, 'Apoyamos Lucha Contra El Imperialismo' and 'Adelante Fidel Venceremos' High powered reconnaissance cameras are fitted to a plane. A plane flies to take reconnaissance photos of Soviet bases in Cuba. Views of aerial photographs showing aircraft landing strips and missiles in Cuba. United States Marines arrive at Guantanamo bay. C-124 Globemasters in background. View of the Organization of the American States Building. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk addresses the gathering. Exterior view of the United Nations building. Soviet representative Valerian Zorin address the Security Council.
Dionne quintuplets, the five identical sisters from Canada, present at launch of five cargo vessels at Walter Butler Shipbuilders in Superior, Wisconsin. Luggage belonging to the five Dionne quintuplets. The Dionne sisters and their parents wave from a moving train. The Dionne sisters each launch a ship one after the other assisted by a U.S. Navy officer. The Dionne sisters and their mother walk escorted by navy officers.
A pilot sits in the cockpit of an aircraft with engine running. A large sedan,with uniformed police officers riding on its running boards,races up to the aircraft. Pilot hands objects from cockpit to officers and car speeds away. Aircraft is low wing cantilevered monoplane with radial engine.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seated in an open car. Large crowd surrounds the car. One young man has climbed partway up a tree to get a better look. The cameraman apparently loses control of his camera, which records while he is walking. Resulting views are upside down and generally meaningless. Scene stabilizes showing a camera on the ground and film roll in hands of a man.
Soviet Union explodes an atomic bomb. Newspaper headlines about the explosion. A meeting of the United Nations assembly is held to discuss the issue. They discuss world peace. UN Assembly President Carlos Romulo addresses delegates about world peace. The explosion of the atomic bomb in view. Formation of mushroom cloud due to the explosion.
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