United States President Richard Nixon visits Tehran, Iran. President Nixon and the First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon arrive in a limousine for a state dinner at the Niavaran Palace (Tehran Province Tehran District 1 Niavaran St, Niavaran Square, Iran). President Nixon, Mrs. Nixon and others enter the palace. President Nixon shakes hands with people.
The 6th anniversary of the signing of the UN ( United Nations ) Charter being celebrated in Washington DC. Several officials and dignitaries come for the ceremony. Korean War veterans march. United States Secretary of State Dean Gooderham Acheson addresses the people. He talks about the combined efforts of the United Nations fighting in Korea against the world aggression.
A man (implied by narrator to be a Communist) speaks to large crowd of men in an unidentified country. Narrator speaks of him as stirring up trouble and spreading the message of communism (during "red scare" timeframe in U.S.) Mobile unit truck of the United States Information Service (USIS) on the road to show (pro United States education and propaganda) USIA motion pictures. Citizens seated for watching USIA films on motion picture projector. Two local men work as projectionists. Faces of audience members as they watch the film on the screen. Man checks the reel of motion picture. Film of USIS starts. American and Thai officials riding on elephants cross a river in Thailand. American diplomatic officials talk with Thai officals seated around a table, planning anti-Communist information campaigns. They ride on horses in a rural area. They cross jungle areas on horse back. An American official wearing a suit and bow tie addresses a group of uniformed Thai officials. Maps on wall.
A documentary on The United Nations Conference on International Organization that continued from April 25, 1945 to June 26, 1945 in San Francisco. A plane in flight and ships are seen in San Francisco Bay. 1940s San Francisco city views: Aerial views of Golden Gate Bridge. People on streets on San Francisco, with streetcars, buildings, pedestrians, and mid 1940's cars seen. Aircraft parked at a USAF Base as delegates from 50 countries arrive. Delegates like Jan Christian Smuts from South Africa, Vyacheslav Molotov from Russia, U.S. secretary of State Edward Stettinius arrive in San Francisco. Delegates register for the conference. United States flag on a building. Interior of the War Memorial Opera House serving as the initial meeting hall. Delegates seated. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing the general assembly remotely, as delegates listen through radio speakers in the opera house. Narrator recalls words of Franklin Roosevelt and recorded audio of Roosevelt is heard where he urges continuation of the work first begun by the defunct League of Nations. View of various working committees and smaller groups of the organization meeting during the Spring of 1945. Representatives debate and review concepts initiated at the Dumbarton Oaks conference in Washington DC in 1944 during World War II. Delegates addressing those assembled and signing documents that create the United Nations.
Representatives of different nations at Plenary Session of United Nations General Assembly in Lake Success, New York, United States. John Foster Dulles, United States representative, addresses the representatives of member nations. Flags of various nations in the background. Room is crowded with observers and staff members. Events photographed and recorded from booth at back of room.
United States Mobile Riverine Force (9th Infantry Division) in Mekong Delta in Vietnam. LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) and ATCs (Armored Troop Carriers) tied up alongside the USS Benewah. Several other river crafts tied up alongside it. USO (United Service Organizations) provide recreational services to the U.S. troops. United States sailors and soldiers sit and watch the performances of the USO group 'The Mustache and Us'. The group performs on the flight deck of an ATC. (Vietnam War period).
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