Henry Ford and others load mail sacks from a truck onto a plane in United States. Plane takes off. Other plane takes off from a snow covered runway. Ford Trimotors,cars and mail trucks on a snow covered field. Planes take off. A man sits at a desk and other man brings airmail letters. The first man sorts through the letters.
Workers with huge disc of clay fastened on an axle between two wooden wheels in United States. They move it over and place on a large potters wheel. Potter shapes a huge pot for melting glass.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives at the stand and is greeted by the Vice President Richard Nixon. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter,American ambassador to United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge,Soviet ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov also arrive with the Soviet Premier. Vice President Nixon speaks into the microphone on the review stand followed by Premier Khrushchev and his interpreter's speech. Vice President Nixon and Premier Khrushchev enter a limousine and drive away. A Russian TU-114 takes off.
A group of United States marines, some of them injured. Marine Private Albert Smith narrates experiences about Gaudal canal campaign. He explains the exchange of fires between Japan and Allied troops. (World War II period).
Population worldwide shown waiting for news about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Groups of people watching televisions and listening to radios. Press announcement in front of White House that President Kennedy has received message from Nikita Khrushchev, Secretary of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, saying that Russia will dismantle missile sites in Cuba. Views of various ships in United States fleet. Military band playing at port as wives and children of U.S. military service men return to Guantanamo, hug and greet the service men, and celebrate. View of a small church and citizens entering the church. Americans going to work. Reconnaissance photos showing missiles dismantled, and showing shadow of the photographing aircraft, itself. Soviet ships carrying missiles out of Cuba. American men, women, and children pedestirans walking on sidewalks in the downtown area of a town, past shops and stores. A man entering a building beside a fallout shelter sign. Department of Defense logo is shown at end of film, followed by on screen text, "If our country should ever be attacked by nuclear weapons, people at ground zero would be lost. But millions more, outside these areas of complete destruction, would be spared, only to be imperiled by radioactive fallout. Today, the nation is better prepared to meet this threat, as the community fallout shelter program goes forward. But much work still remains to be done. Cuba may not be the last crisis we'll be called on to face. But let it be the last we'll face unprepared.
Views of United States Army soldiers talking on radio sets. A radio engineer working on a radio set. Radio sets and tubes of early times shown. Then a SCR (Signal Corps Radio) 694 radio set is displayed. U.S. Army soldiers moving in military vehicles with SCR 694 radio set and working with SCR 694 in fields. A case containing transmitter and receiver are thrown into water by a soldier. Case floating in water. Soldiers working with different components of SCR 694 radio set. (World War II period).
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