Parking lot of a hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A limousine pulls up on its circular drive and a passenger steps into the car. A fashionably dressed woman walks her dog on grounds of the hotel, pausing near a palm tree. Two men chat in background and the ocean is seen behind them. Two women are seen window shopping at Peck & Peck store and two others at another window of the same store. Pedestrians walk past the window shoppers. Scene shifts to the open air yard of a shop selling pottery, where a woman is conversing with the shopkeeper. Next, a uniformed chauffeur picks a purchase made by the woman and carries it for her as they leave the shop. Shoppers are seen in an alcove near another store. The scene shifts to a restaurant patio where patrons are seated in a shady setting. (Note: The shopping scenes were filmed along Worth Avenue in its various alcoves.)
Labor strikers crowd around the entrances to a manufacturing plant as National Guardsmen herd strike-breakers (aka "scabs") into the shop New Albany. Women work at sewing machines in the factory. National Guard troops guard the shirt factory. Cars parked in the street. Ambulances carry-off the injured after a clash at another manufacturing plant in Jeffersonville.
Women on horses pass on street in Colwyn bay, United Kingdom. People stand along the sides of the street to watch them. Houses along the sides of the street. A man and a woman on a horse-cart decorated with flowers.
The Empire State Building in New York. View of the Empire State Building dominating the Manhattan skyline. Good Year blimp with lettering "Columbia" on it approaches and passes directly over the Empire State Building. Trailing from it is a long rope with a bundle tied on the end. The bundle swings into the side of the Empire State Building near its top. An employee grabs the bundle. Huge crowd gathered at the base of the Empire State Building. Next scene shows a Good Year employee (Good Year lettering on his shirt) delivering the bundle of what appears to be newspapers to New York State Governor Al Smith in the crowd on the street outside the Empire State Building. A very special delivery.
Opening scene shows Douglas MacArthur II, Counselor of the State Department, discussing a document with Assistant Secretary of State, James C. Hill. The document contains many signatures, and James Hill signs it, as well. Closeups of him and MacArthur looking directly at the camera. Closeup of the document. Scene shifts to exterior of the U.S. State Department building, as seen from Edward J Kelly Park, across 21st Street from the building. Opening scene shows Douglas MacArthur II, Counselor of the State Department, discussing a document with Assistant Secretary of State, James C. Hill. The document contains many signatures, and James Hill adds his signature to it. Closeups of him and MacArthur looking directly at the camera. Closeup of the document. Scene shifts to exterior of the U.S. State Department building, from Edward J Kelly Park, across 21st Street from the building. Bronze sculpture copy of Myron's Discobolus (Discus Thrower) is seen in the foreground.
Foreign dignitaries arrive for the state funeral of assassinated U.S. President John F Kennedy. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk awaits the arrival of Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda at the Dulles Airport. Dean Rusk greets the Japanee PM as he arrives at the airport terminal. The dignitaries walk past the waiting photographers and journalists. Rusk and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Roger Hilsman lead the PM down a ramp towards a waiting car. The PM and Dean Rusk get into the State Department limousine and leave for Washington DC.
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