Riots and uneasy conditions in South Africa and Congo during the year 1960. South African natives demonstrate against apartheid racial discrimination and passbook requirements. Protestors at Sharpeville shown burning passbooks. Policemen fire at peaceful demonstrators in what became the Sharpeville massacre of May 31, 1960. Next scene shows attempted assassination of Premier Verwoerd by a white farmer. A photographer takes photos as an aide holds Verwoerd after he is shot. Next scene shows riots in Congo, Africa after elections. Rioters dispersed by local police forces. The United Nations peace keeping forces arrive in Congo. Premiere Patrice Lumumba arrested and policeman ties his hands with ropes. View of Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko in military uniform.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the United States November 8, 1960. John F Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy during a ticker tape parade (this was on October 19, 1960 in New York City during the presidential campaign). The two ride in a convertible through the city streets and greet the gathered crowd. People cheer and greet the President-elect. Photographers click pictures of the event. John Kennedy votes during the presidential elections on November 8. JFK among his supporters. President-elect John Kennedy with the Vice President-elect, Lyndon B Johnson, in a gathering at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port on November 9.
The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. Democratic Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy with officials on a city street. He waves to the crowd during a campaign. A large number of people gathered on streets holding banners that read 'Nixon'. John F. Kennedy speaking to the crowd. Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon standing behind a podium and speaking into a microphone. Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon shaking hands and speaking to a few people among the crowd gathered. A large number of people gathered. People holding banners which read 'Kennedy as President'. Kennedy standing behind a podium and speaking into a microphone. A banner on the podium reads 'Democratic National Convention 1960'. A large number of people holding several banners, one of which reads 'We Want Nixon'. Richard Nixon with his wife standing behind a podium. Several officials on either side of them applauding. The Republican candidates for the President and the Vice President Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. smiling and waving at the crowd.
Street scenes on Fifth Ave. New York City. A well dressed woman in early 1960s fashions waves at the camera while walking with a friend. Women walking past the Best & Co. department store at 641-645 Fifth Ave and E 51 St. A group of pedestrians cross E 51 St along Fifth Ave. Brief shot of two women walking in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men waiting to cross intersection next to a stopped Cowan truck. Feet and legs of men and women crossing the road. Pedestrians early 1960s fashions cross E 52 St along Fifth Ave in front of Doubleday.
Children lean out windows of railroad train climbing hill at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, as men make adjustments on track bed while the train approaches at slow speed. People outside Binion's Horseshoe casino and hotel in Las Vegas with neon lights flashing and illuminating a woman crossing the street. View of people walking on city streets, town streets, and inside buildings in America in mid 1960's, including views of various late 1950's through mid 1960's cars on roads. View of Belmar Hotel in New Jersey. Families on vacations hiking on ridge tops and beside large canyons; possibly Grand Canyon. Three young boys, shirtless, walking along a wooden fence on a large western ranch. Three women in bathing suits walking on sand of a beach. Heap of waste old 1940's and 1950's cars stacked up. A family with women and children walking along a city street. A line of boys with backpacks, possibly boy scouts, walking along a trail in the woods. Air Force Academy cadets marching on grounds of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. Pedestrians crossing busy city streets and cars on city streets in American cities. Boy pulls a girl seated in a red wagon along a suburban sidewalk. Man crosses city street with garment wagon as a vendor pushes his food truck along the street. Man pushes a cart stacked high with cardboard boxes. Men on golf course wheel golf bags near the green. Man wheels gas tank along a seashore area. Post office mail carrier wheels mail bag on sidewalk of neighborhood. Women pushing babies in strollers and scenes along a street market
Jesse Jackson is interviewed in a press conference. Jesse answers Patrick Borgan of London Times on protesting peacefully with reference to 1968 and its riots and unrest vis-à-vis Civil Rights and racial equality for African Americans. Judith Randal of New York Daily News and Henry McGee of Newsweek Magazine are also present. Bill McCrory of Voice of America is the moderator. Jackson discusses the purposes of the protests of the 1960s, and explains that the vision toward the goal of equality takes time and has curves, rather than being a straight line. He implies that some people because satisfied with the gains from the 1960s, but that there is more to do, and that moral depravity and a lack of good ethics is the current obstacle in the 1970s holding back progress.