A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Camp Perry in Ohio. Military Trophies and civilian National Rifle Association (NRA) trophies for world series in marksmanship placed on a table. Service personnel and civilians at Camp Perry. Insignia on the back of the shirt of a participant. A 5th Infantry Division insignia on the back of a man. National Small Arms School instructors brief civilians and personnel in operation and firing of M-1 rifles. Participants fire rifles at a range during a competition. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Matthew B. Ridgway presents trophies to winners of the competition at a ceremony in Washington DC. Scene changes to show a group of boys, all members of the Fairlington Junior Rifle Club in Arlington County, Virginia. The boys (and one girl also seen) wear shooting jackets with various patches commemorating NRA and other events. Boys seated on the ground. The boys and girls take prone position and fire rifles at a range at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, during an outing, supported by the U.S. Army. One boy wears a confederate soldier kepi style hat. Some of the children use their own rifles, modified for lighter weight. They cross the range together to look at targets. An instructor helps a boy. A boy loads a rifle and fires it. He looks through binoculars to check the accuracy of his shot. Sergent Stuart Queen at a desk as he speaks.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower suffers a heart attack during his holiday in Denver, Colorado. Dwight David Eisenhower stands. Exteriors of house of Elvira Mathilda Carlson-Doud where the President suffered the heart attack. A board outside the hospital where the President was rushed to reads' U.S. Army Fitzsimons Army Hospital Parking Area Straight ahead information desk located in lobby of main building'. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower and White House Press Secretary James Campbell Hagerty visit the president. Newsmen wait for information. Newsmen work on typewriters in news room. People enter a church to offer prayers. U.S. Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon talks to officials and calls for a meeting. A cameraman clicks pictures. Richard Nixon addresses a press conference.
The 65th birthday of U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado as he is recovering from a heart attack. A chef puts icing on the cake prepared for the President. A nurse offers cake to GIs in the hospital. A GI eats the cake reading about President Eisenhower in a magazine. Two GIs sit and eat cake. Cameramen wait in a garden outside the hospital for the President to arrive. The GIs wave to the President as he comes on the terrace.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado as he is recovering from a heart attack. Exteriors of the hospital. Automobile traffic on a road. The President in a wheel chair is brought by doctors and nurses for pictures. Cameramen click pictures. The President smiles sitting in the wheel chair.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado after his recovery from a heart attack. Exteriors of the hospital building. The First Lady of the United States Mamie Doud Eisenhower, the President of Guatemala Carlos Castillo Armas and his wife visit President Dwight David Eisenhower. All four dignitaries pose for a picture. President Carlos Castillo Armas presents Dwight D. Eisenhower with a Presidential Seal.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower arrives in Washington DC, United States after his recovery from a heart attack . The First Lady of the United States Mamie Doud Eisenhower and the President disembark from an aircraft. A crowd waves to the President. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower and his wife Barbara Jean Thompson greet the President. U.S. Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon and former U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover greet the President. The President addresses the crowd. Children in front of a car on a street wait to welcome the President. The President arrives at Gettysburg. A crowd gathered to welcome him. The crowd presents birthday wishes to Mamie Doud Eisenhower.