U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes at St. Louis, Missouri. It was test flight #155557 MAC 2833. The F-4J aircraft taxis for take off, lifts off and climbs steeply. Pilot and co-pilot eject. (Both survived: Pilot C. D. "Pete" Pilcher, Production Test Pilot, McDonnell Douglas Corporation; and Radar Observer Harvey A. Begay in backseat position.) Plane moves flatly through air in vertical position. It loses all speed. Aircraft falls flatly, impacts runway and explodes into a huge fireball. Black smoke billows up from impact area. Plane continues to burn. F-4J ablaze. Crash crew makes way to fire. Ambulance on ground. Pilot Pilcher and Radar Observer Begay meet-up together with other personnel on the airfield and observe the blazing aircraft from which they had ejected. They walk around a military station wagon. The two crew members examine ejection seat on runway. Ejection seat resting on runway. Two pilots get into a station wagon with other civilian personnel. Collapsed chute laying on grass. View of ejection seat. Blown canopy, other debris lying about runway in the background. F-4J still ablaze. Fire engine enters and moves down a runway. Firemen wade knee-deep through foam while fighting fire. Heavy smoke rises from wreckage. Crashed F-4J, heavy foam in the foreground. Fireman direct more foam into opening of F-4J while smoke is pouring out.
20th Anniversary of U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. U.S. Marine officers in charge for the honor guards. The honor guards stand before the group on the flight deck. High ranked officers proceed down the flight deck. Sideboys in ranks on the deck. A red carpet stretches down the flight deck between the sideboys and the Marine Honor guards in the background. A helicopter being framed in a distance in the background. Marines walk down the line. Marine Honor guard breaking ranks at Port Arms. Marines march at Port Arms. Marines march with arms on shoulder.
Occasion is the 20th anniversary of the U.S. 6th Fleet. U.S. Navy Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR) is seen with U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William I. Martin, Commander,U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet, and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Edward C. Outlaw, Commander Fleet Air Mediterranean ( COMFLTAIRMED). They are conversing on the bridge of the USS Independence (CVA-62) in the Mediterranean Sea. Outlaw smokes a pipe. McCain is holding a cigar. Martin's back is to the camera early in the sequence. McCain and Martin are doing most of the talking as Outlaw listens. At TC:01:13, camera turns toward Admiral Martin, who soon puffs on a cigar he had been holding. Sequence ends with closeups of Admiral McCain speaking.
U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. A starboard beam view of a Merchant Tanker from the beam of USS Independence (CVA-62). An unidentified Merchant Tanker class ship underway at sea.Crew members on flight deck. The barrier is up in foreground.The barrier being stretched across the flight deck. U.S. Army General Lyman L. Lemnitzer (Supreme Allied Commander of NATO) in the foreground in his Army dress uniform. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William I. Martin alongside of General Lemnitzer on the flight deck. Other officers, guests and UN Foreign Officers in the background. View of Vice Admiral with General and the rest of officers. Officers in the yellow shirt with a bull horn brief the general and rest of the group. Red lights flashing on the Fresnel Landing system at the edge of the flight deck. Red lights go off and green lights come on. Meat ball in the center of the system. A yellow shirt on the deck, the Fresnel Landing system in the background and the green lights on with the meat ball.
Chicago riots. A shutter lowered down with a sign that reads 'entrance open on Sundays'. Wreckage lies on ground as people walk past it in an aftermath of riots in Chicago, Illinois. Smoke rises from a destroyed building. A sign on the pole reads 'No right turn'. Rubble piled up on the ground. Soldiers walk past a burnt building. A building on fire.
Aftermath of Chicago riots following assassination death of Martin Luther King Jr. Cars parked along the road side as other vehicles move past them in Chicago after the riots. Soldiers in a jeep move past wrecked houses. Children around destroyed and burned buildings. People walk past rubble piled up on the ground. Soldiers stand on heap of rubble.
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