Community fallout shelters being stocked. Lorries and trucks on road carry supplies. View of Red Ball trucking line truck. Aerial, exterior view of United Nations Building in New York City. View inside United Nations building. United Nation Ambassador Stevenson asks the USSR delegate whether there are missile bases on Cuba. President Kennedy signs Quarantine order on what materials may be shipped to Cuba, to begin 10am on October 24, 1962. B-52 bombers take off, taking 24 hour missions. Interceptors and fighters take off. Views on aircraft carriers with fueling and takeoff operations on flight deck. Radar dishes and radio communications. U.S. battleship at sea. U.S. intercepts Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed. Reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba. Views of White House. SAC bombers and anti aircraft missiles on 5 to 15 minute alert to handle any critical situation. Interiors of control room inside the Headquarters of American Air Defense Command.
Doctor Kenneth Clark, Professor of Psychology at the City College of New York; Director of Fallen Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Research Director, North Pride Center for Interpretation, interviews Malcolm X on civil right movement of African Americans. Discussion includes teachings of non-violence by Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X deriding that position. He calls Dr. King a 20th century Uncle Tom. He speaks against King's positions on forgiveness and he states that King's positions would lead to continued segregation. Clark asks about Malcolm X's goals. Malcolm X talks about the need for improvement in moral fiber of African Americans. He states that the white man is against brotherhood and is against peace, which is contrary to Muslim teachings. Malcolm X derides integration saying "you don't integrate with a sinking ship." He also talks about issues and conflicts of representation from people who have intermarried. He talks about police brutality and how the President did not send in troops to protect African Americans from attacks by dogs in Birmingham, but only sent in troops when African Americans erupted, in order to protect white people there. He talks about hypocrisy of whites in America.
South West America experiences the worst drought in years. Dried up river channel and parched land. President Eisenhower meets Governors of the drought stricken states to plan the relief program for the people in these states.
Cold War period U.S. Army training film, with simulation, discusses individual protection against chemical and biological operations and nuclear warfare. A unit of U.S. troops patrols the jungle. Troops spot a dead hog. Troops advance. Simulated nuclear bomb blast takes place as unit troops take a break. Emphasizes the importance of surface and underground cover to survive effects of nuclear bomb blast, heat and radiation.
A training film on preparation of anti aircraft searchlight equipment for combat use. Crew of control station prepare, Commander of battery inspects unit and posts reliefs. Unit locates target aircraft and begins action. Views of crew at work and between missions. Crew changes carbon light in searchlight.
A scientist installs tail components of AZON. He installs radio receiver unit,gyro stabilizer unit,battery and an antenna. An automatic stabilization check is made on the bomb. Control lever and radio transmitter are tested to move the rudders. Movement of the lever to right and left makes the rudders m move to right and left. A flare is installed in the bomb which ignites after the bomb is away. (World War II period).
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