U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk in a Foreign Relations Committee Meeting in the United States. A dignitary speaks into a microphone. Dean Rusk speaks into the microphone and is questioned by reporters and journalists. Dean talks about discussions that took place in Moscow and about a treaty. He speaks that they are working on the treaty and are making progress.
A police officer directing traffic on crowded street in New York City. Pedestrians and shoppers crowd sidewalks at a corner of 5th Avenue. City of Chicago. View of Michigan Avenue, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Busy area with trolley cars, traffic, and pedestrians at West Madison and State streets. Pedestrians crossing Madison Street. A newsstand at the corner. Elevated rail train in the Loop area of Chicago. Foot of a bridge with center lanes and turnaround reserved for trolley cars. At a level below, several World War II era airplanes are on display. Fiery displays created by molten steel being poured in a steel plant. An overhead crane moves a heavy glowing ingot of steel. Steel fabrication operations in a manufacturing plant. Views of various manufacturing operations in the United States. Men and women workers in manufacturing and production assembly lines. These scenes represent potential targets in the event of war, during the cold war.
Experiments on fly specks show the fly as a disease carrier in the United States. A fly moves on a menu card. A cup and a serving of sugar cubes on a dining table. The fly sits on sugar cubes. Experiments are performed which show that these fly specks frequently contain disease germs in an active and virulent state. After incubation the fly specks show living germs of typhoid and spinal meningitis. Tuberculosis bacillus seen.
A civil rights leader condemns as "wrong and deplorable" the rioting in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States. He states that the nation "cannot digest" these actions.
Singer James Brown interview immediately following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. He states that the United States "is the greatest country in the world." But he asks whether African American children will have homes to return to in the wake of rioting.
United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk discusses American efforts to negotiate peace in Vietnam and North Vietnamese (and Communist China) refusal to participate. President Lyndon Johnson speaking, says, "We do not seek the destruction of any government." Rusk calls for free elections in Vietnam under international supervision.
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