Robert Sargent interviewed in Washington DC, United States. On being asked by the interviewer Paul Niven about his meeting with Senator Goldwater, Shriver states he never had a meeting with Senator Goldwater. He praises the Congress for increasing the appropriation for Peace Corps almost to the double. On being questioned about his involvement in politics he refuses to be active in politics as long as he is the Director of the Peace Corps. He says that Peace Corps is a non political organization.
Men put tags on pigeons and enter the tag numbers in a list. Pigeons are set free for the National Pigeon Race, part of the Northwest Territory Celebration, being held in Marietta, Ohio. One of the participants is L. Bayne of Baltimore, Maryland. Pigeons in long distance flight on their way to their home roosts in various parts of the United States.
President Roosevelt returns from a three week long fishing trip to Pensacola, Florida. The United States ship USS Houston comes in the harbor at Naval flying station in Pensacola, Florida. Marine Guards lined up an honor guard. President's car pulls away as he waves to a large crowd at the harbor.
Displaced people in Bergzabern, Germany a about a month before the end of World War 2 in Europe. .Film begins showing destroyed buildings and rubble in the town. A long extension ladder is raised in an open lot. Many people are gathered in a street and in a large field. Some in the field are cooking meals. An American army truck is parked in a vacant lot, next to a covered elevated platform. Closeup of people obtaining water from a pipe at the platform. A large number of people assembling in a field where others are dispensing soup from large buckets and distributing other foods. Milk is being ladled from large milk cans into containers held by recipients. Closeup of a young man eating from a large bowl.
Role of United States Coast Guards. A luxury liner, SS Morro Castle burns at sea as smoke rises from it. United States Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WPG-48) underway to rescue the people on board the liner. A 75 foot long patrol boat underway to reach the burning vessel. Men aboard life boats. Men swim in the sea as lifeboats rescue them. Men swim towards the beach where beach patrol men save their lives. Smoke rises from the burning ship. USCG Cutter Tampa seen towing the SS Morro Castle after the disaster (but the hawser then broke and the Morro Castle drifted aground). Remains of the charred vessel aground at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Coast Guardsmen in uniform wheel a beach cart containing a lyle gun and other equipment for firing a shot line to a vessel in distress. They are conducting a breeches buoy drill. They remove a lyle gun and flaking box from the cart and uncover the shot line which they place in the gun. Using a long lanyard, one guardsman fires the gun. Closeup of the shot line smoothly paying out from the flaking box. It is fired to a simulated mast (tower) on the beach. Closeup of large spools of whip line with instructions to the distressed crew about their use. After the whip line and block are set on the distressed ship's mast, the Coast Guardsmen now prepare the whip line to move large hawser line to the mast. Large spools of hawser line are seen in background. Closeup of Guardsmen pulling hawser from the spools. Guardsmen tie the hawser to the whip line for hauling aboard the distressed vessel. Closeup of the whip line pulling the hawser across the sand to the tower. Guardsmen working rapidly to accomplish this. A breeches buoy being attached to the hawser which is then propped up for elevation. View of the Breeches Buoy traveling up to the tower. A guardsmen riding the breeches buoy down from the tower. He is helped by others when he reaches the ground. Closeup of a clamp placed on the hawser to retrieve it from the vessel. The hawser being retrieved.
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