Empire State Building under construction in New York. Steel erection construction of skyscraper building completes up to 85th floor. Workers hoist the flag of United States. Another flag on the building. View of 1043 feet building from bottom to top. Animation shows the main building and arrow at 85th floor on 19th of September.
People watch former President John F Kennedy's State funeral in Washington DC. Soldiers take the President's casket. Flags at half mast in honor of former President Kennedy. A parade to honor him. The dignitaries include Chief Justice Earl Warren and Adlai Stevenson. People cry. Soldiers walk beside the cart carrying his casket. American flag at United States Capitol building.
Ominous clouds in sky during Super Outbreak of tornadoes in April 1974 that hit regions in many states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the Canadian province of Ontario. Xenia Ohio city manager Bob Stewart seen talking to his wife. A man checks storm on radar during a tornado in United States. A man rolls a machine to other room. During recording, a man shows areas that come in tornado's range. Sheriff dispatcher gives warning to all police and sheriff personnel about the sighted tornado in Montgomery County. Dick Burroughs on phone at Miami Valley Disaster Services in Dayton Ohio. A freigh train entering Xenia, Ohio just as tornado, scene via a student's 8mm camera comes into view and bears down on Xenia Ohio. Tornado hits the city of Xenia. Reenactment as city manager's wife takes call from him warning of tornado and she heads for basement cover. U.S. Air Force dispatches emergency medical convoy from grounds of base hospital at Wright Patterson Field. View of medical staff from the base mobilizing with ambulances and heavy construction battalion. Box 21, an emergency group responds to siren. People gather and discuss their plan include Military Personnel. A man explains situation. Rescuers save victims from tornado and take away dead bodies to temporary morgues.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall arrives with President Harry Truman in a car at an airport. The Secretary talks with persons there. President shakes hands with him and bids goodbye. He moves to an airplane which displays on the door an official seal of the President of United States. The Secretary waves goodbye towards the people at the airport. The plane takes off.
Mix of actor portrayals and actual footage: Church, homes and schools of America. Various United States soldiers. Views of German soldiers. German soldiers marching in a parade ground. Rulers and dictators of Germany: Adolf Hitler (World War II), Kaiser Wilhelm II, Otto Von Bismarck who laid identity of Germany as Nazi, Huns, and Prussians respectively. Historic overview of Germany. Princes and feudalistic rulers of the states. In contrast the US, French and British parliamentary system. King Frederick, the Great of Prussia with his cavalry and in his court. Prussian war against Austria, Russia, Sweden, France. German women wave for victorious troops. Portraits of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Dictums of Clausewitz, crushing of the 1848 revolt in Prussia. Germans emigrate to the U.S. Otto Von Bismarck addresses the ministry his policies of blood and iron.
Harry Hopkins, Special Assistant to the United States President and Sir Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of State talk with press reporters, in Washington DC. Press reporters make notes as the two men answer their questions. Both of them step out from a government building and talk to each other.
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