Governor Huey Long nicknamed 'Kingfish' lashes out at critics in Louisiana. He still reigns strong in Louisiana. From a February 11, 1960 Newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Supersonic Missile fired from Patrick Air Force base in Florida. The Northrop Snark SM-62 missile demonstrates accuracy as it hurtles south, 5000 miles to hit a mid ocean target area. Animated map shows the course of missile range on target area. Missile takes off from launch pad.
Stateville Correctional Center buildings and prisoners, in Crest Hill, Illinois, near Chicago. Prisoners come out of their prison cells, as they are unlocked sequentially in tiers starting with the upper and working down the cellblock of the penetentiary. Prisoners moving about the prison facility, along an external hallway and into landscaped area of lawn, flowers, and hedges. View inside a large roundhouse circular cellblock. Several prisoners are escorted singly to their cells. The center of the unit appears to be a large atrium. Overview of the entire facility shows several circular cellblocks and other buildings.
Navy flying boat, Martin JRM Mars makes record flight from California to Hawaii. The flying boat prepares for its record flight. Soldiers load raw material on JRM Mars. Crew members take their place inside the aircraft, ready to take off. Martin JRM Mars takes of from water surface and begins its flight. Pilot and co pilot operate controls, seated in the cockpit. (World War II period).
Many photographers crowd together to take pictures. Scene shifts to the subject: Major General W Austin Davis, Ballistic Systems Division Commander, presenting ,what appears to be a large facsimile missile launch key, to Lieutenant General Archie J Old, 15th Air Force Commander at a ceremony. View from behind photographers, taking pictures. Next, General Old is seen presenting launch keys to a pair of Nuclear and Missile Operations Officers, dressed in white flight suits. Closeups of the recipients, showing their missile badges, aviator wings, and their missile launch keys on chains around their necks.
Minuteman Missile at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. Interior of Minuteman Missile launch silo. The silo door opens and closes.
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