Curtiss military aircraft being demonstrated during World War 2. Large number of Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplanes seen in flights of three, each. They fire their machine guns (two nose-mounted and two in each wing). Next, about 15 or more are seen in loose formation. A group of U.S. Army officers, seated at a stand on the banks of a waterway, watch as a group of P-40s fly past, at low altitude. Small boats are seen in the water near pilings and a decrepit dock. A large, loose formation of P-40s flies past, in flights of three, stacked vertically. (At this point sound of the aircraft can be heard.) Two more large formations of P-40s fly past. Then individual P-40s are seen following one another at large intervals. They fly low over the camera site. Scene changes to P-40s flying over a Curtiss Aircraft factory building. Curtiss aircraft company workers stand outside the building to watch the show. some P-40s fly past low, in close formation. Six P-40s fly past at altitude in vertical stacked formation. Two flights of three, pass directly overhead. The P-40s in Two flights, separate and fly away individually, imitating fighter dog-fighting tactics. Large view of American flag, with series of P-40s flying past, behind it.
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan bound for Hamburg Germany. The USS Manhattan underway at sea on July 15, 1936 en route to the 1936 Olympics. Athletes play a shuffleboard game aboard the ship. Jesse Owens, an American track and field athlete, Glenn Cunningham, and other famous persons aboard the ship. The passengers disembark from the ship in Hamburg. They are welcomed by German officials.
Robert Vogeler arrives home with his family in New York. Robert Vogeler, a U.S. businessman held in a Hungarian prison for 15 months on trumped-up Soviet charges, arrives at his home land. He and his family disembark from an airplane. Cameramen clicks photographs. Vogeler is interviewed by media persons. With his wife at his side he speaks about his ordeal. His wife tells the media persons to leave him alone.
On March 15, 1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of the Congress to urge the passage of new voting rights legislation in the United States. Members of the Congress applaud. President Johnson addresses that government will treat every citizen equal. Every American will be given equal opportunity and every American citizen must have an equal right to vote in the Voting Rights Act.
Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York. Dogs of various breeds are combed, razed and given beauty treatment for participating in Westminster Kennel Club dog show. Views of dogs of various breeds. A trophy lying on a table. The masters show their dogs in the dog show. American Kennel Club judges sit for judging the best breed. Champion Carmichael's Fanfare-Mamie wins the show and the trophy. He is the first Scottish Terrier to win the show in 15 years.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini standing together in an open car during a motorcade in Munich, in 1938. Civilian spectators render Nazi salutes as they pass. Next, British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, arriving for the Munich treaty conference, steps from a British Airways Lockheed Model 14 passenger plane. An honor guard of helmeted and white-gloved German soldiers stands at attention during his welcome. Adolf Hitler climbs stairs of Berghof together with Chamberlain and Hitler's interpretor, Paul Otto Schmidt, on September 15, 1938 for their conference. Crowds of Germans give Nazi salute and cheer as Hitler and Mussolini appear on a balcony. Prime Minister Chamberlain back from the conference, speaks to the crowd at Heston Aerodrome on 30 September 1938, saying, among other thing, "We regard the agreement signed last night, and the Anglo-German naval agreement as symbolic of the desires of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again." Damaged buildings and ruins of city. Mussolini giving an impassioned speech. Italian cavalry carrying out a charge in Ethiopia. Italian troops employing machine guns in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War circa 1936. Italian infantry charging across sand dunes. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie at the League of Nations podium. Nazi Swastika eagle statue. A formation of German troops, during the Anschluss (German annexation of Austria,in 1938). Hitler at a podium. People rendering Nazi salute in annexed city. At this point, the film transitions to 1950 as North Korean troops cross the 39th parallel and start the Korean War. A nighttime artillery barrage. North Korean troops firing a Browning M1917 machine gun and rifles. The feet of American soldiers are jumping out of foxholes as U.S.M26 Pershing tanks fire their guns from tilted positions below hills. A Pershing tank crosses a bridge back into South Korea, where a sign reads:"You are now crossing the 38th parallel, Co.B 728 MP." Scene shifts again, to President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers speech about Vietnam at a news conference on July 28, 1965, in which he states,among other things, "Three times in my lifetime...Americans have gone to far lands to fight for freedom..." as he explains U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the Vietnam War.