This Spanish language newsreel clip highlights Alex Carrasquel -- the first baseball player from Venezuela to play in the U.S. major leagues. He played in New York on July 4, 1939, the day before Venezuela's Independence Day. Title cards read: "Especially for Venezuela. The great pitcher Alejandro Carrasquel plays in New York on the eve of the Venezuelan patriotic day." Shot of Simon Bolivar statue in New York's Central Park with 'Simon Bolivar El Libertador' written under it. Huge crowd at Yankee Stadium in New York to watch July 4 doubleheader between New York Yankees and Carrasquel's team, the Washington Senators. (NOTE: This crowd was mainly there to see the Yankees honor Lou Gehrig, their Hall of Fame first baseman, who had just been diagnosed with ALS.) Carrasquel (#14) pitches to Yankees in second game, gives up run-scoring triple, tags out another runner trying to reach first base. Carrasquel speaks to crowd through microphones in ceremony at home plate. Shot of Venezuelan flag on pole outside a building (Venezuelan embassy?). Men and women gathered at a cafeteria. Sign in large white letters reads 'Venezuela.'
Re-enactment of events that took place during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 2-5 August 1964. USS Ticonderoga underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. A catapult officer gives an aircraft take off signal aboard the ship. U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk and F-8E Crusader aircraft taxi up to a catapult. The RF-8A aircraft takes off from the port catapult. The A-4E aircraft takes off. A U.S. Navy A-3B Skywarrior aircraft on the catapult. An A-1H Skyraider taxis on the flight deck. USS Maddox underway. Number '731' written on the port bow of the ship. USS Maddox makes a sharp starboard turn.
Preparations made for prosecution of war criminals following World War 2. Exterior of building of U.S. Supreme Court. 'Equal Justice Under Law' written on building. Animation shows three types of trials. The first kind is the one in which the criminals are returned to the countries they betrayed. Minister-President of Norway Vidkun Quisling being tried in Norway. The second kind is one in which the criminals who committed crimes in specific localities are on trial in those countries. Germans being tried in a country. Offenders charged with killing U.S. soldiers are tried by American Army Corps. An officer speaks about the trials. A chart depicts kinds of trials. The National Traitor Trials, the Local Minor Trials, the U.S. Military Trials and the Trials of the Major War Criminals conducted by the International Military Tribunal. View of Hitler and Nazi leadership walking up aisle in crowded building with German soldiers and officers on either side saluting. Rudolf Hess delivering a speech and shouting emphatically, followed by views of other German leaders (later Nuremberg defendents) delivering speeches. Goebbels in dress uniform. U.S. Justice Robert H Jackson, being appointed by President Truman for the U.S. as Chief of Counsel for the tribunals, and also General William J. Donovan. Tribunal legal staff in front of U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Service terminal at Washington National Airport, and then boarding a DC-4 aircraft. DC-4 takes off, with the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial seen in the background. Mussolini addressing a crowd from an elevated balcony. View of book Mein Kampf with image of Adolf Hitler on front cover. German SS Schutzstaffel division marching in formation on a German street. Josef Kramer under armed guard, after being captured in his role as Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. SS Commander Heinrich Himmler talking to a German officer. Dead Concentration Camp victim and living camp victims beside barb wire (Buchenwald).
USS Enterprise underway at sea in the United States. Flight deck personnel on a catwalk handle levers for arresting gear. United States Navy AD Skyraider aircraft parked in the background. Men on a catwalk tend to arrest cables during the landing of aircraft. Men look across the flight deck at the landing of aircraft. United States Navy A-4D Skyhawk aircraft makes an arrested landing. The aircraft stops. A U.S. Navy F-8U Crusader aircraft makes an arrested landing. The A4D aircraft taxis over the deck after making the arrested landing. The F8U-1 aircraft makes arrested landing. The F8U taxis up the deck.
U.S. aircraft in flight over a sea in the United States. U.S. Navy A3J Vigilante aircraft in flight. Three F4H Phantom aircraft fly in formation overhead. Bomb hits are made on water surface. The hits are made near a target area. Smoke rises from explosions. U.S. Navy AD Skyraider aircraft makes a diving run. A bomb impacts and an explosion in water. Three A3J Vigilante aircraft fly in formation. Three F4H Phantom aircraft in flight. Four U.S. Navy F-8U Crusader in a formation flight.
The Atlas LV-3A/Agena B rocket on a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. SAMOS 3, a U.S. Air Force first generation photo surveillance satellite, aboard the Atlas LV-3A/Agena B. The rocket blows up. Smoke columns rise as the rocket catches fire. Several views of the smoke rising. Electrical towers and lines in the foreground. The launch pad as seen through the smoke. (Note:One of the pad umbilicals did not properly detach at liftoff, cutting off electrical power to the Atlas. The booster fell back through the launch stand and exploded. SLC-4E was fully repaired in only nine weeks and hosted Samos 4's launch two weeks after that.)
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