Graduation ceremony of new U.S. Navy officers in the United States. A large number of midshipmen seated in a building of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. They receive their graduation degrees. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth does the honors. A crowd applauds and cheers. U.S. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson awards degrees to new U.S. Air Force officers in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Johnson on a reviewing stand. The cadets at West Point in New York receive their degrees from President John F Kennedy. Kennedy addresses them. The new U.S. Army officers cheer and applaud.
First Chinese refugee family arrives in Chicago, Illinois under an emergency immigration plan. The Eng family arrives under emergency immigration laws to allow the refugees to enter the country and receive asylum from Communist rule in China. The family had been waiting in Taiwan since 1955 and had not succeeded in entering the U.S. under a quota that permitted only 105 Chinese persons per year. Chinese refugees get off an airplane. They meet their family. They enter a building. Food on a table. The family seated at the table eats the food.
A gusher catches fire in Gladewater, Texas. The blazing gusher. Heavy columns of smoke rise. Firemen don asbestos suits to check the spread of fire through woods.
The 33rd anniversary celebrations of the Manila Bay victory in the United States. Soldiers march in formation. They carry flags. Buildings along sides of streets. People gather in a large number for the celebrations. A man poses. USS Olympia. An officer poses with his medal.
Annual hoop roll in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Participants stand in formation to form digits 1931 on Severance Green. Severance Dorm buildings in the background. Girls run. Trees along the sides of a street. The girls run during the competition.
A film on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr, the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. A U.S. Air Force Military Air Transport airplane lands at an airport. People gather at the airport to greet John Glenn after his journey. He comes out of the airplane. Glenn seated in a car with his wife and U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. The car drives along. People gathered along the sides of the streets wave and cheer as the car moves past. Arrival of U.S. President Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, where President Kennedy descends the steps of the Air Force One aicraft. U.S. President John F Kennedy presents Astronaut John Glenn with NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. Astronauts applaud. Several officials and dignitaries at the ceremony. Glenn arrives in Washington DC. Crowds gathered to greet Glenn, with some standing on bridges and overpasses in the rain to cheer him. Interior of the White House. Astronaut Alan Shepard, John Glenn and his wife at the White House with the President and first lady Jackie Kennedy, and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Glenn seated in a car. A crowd gathers on a street of Washington DC during a parade to honor John Glenn. They wave and greet him. Buildings along street sides. A ticker tape parade in New York. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol. The speaker of the house addresses the members of the Congress. He talks about the achievement of Glenn. Members of the Congress applaud and cheer. Glenn addresses the Congress. The members applaud. Cameramen record the event.
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