A group of teachers and educators in the Los Angeles school district, meeting at Valley College, discuss how to deal with the problem of drug abuse among school children. Science teacher William Edler, of Wilbur Avenue Elementary School in Tarzana, and a woman watch as a woman addresses a group of elementary school teachers. Another woman reads out from her papers and addresses the group.A man expresses his views. Teachers listen to a tape recording from a man describing problems with drug abuse in children and young people including marijuana, LSD, and hallucinogenics. Teachers in the group express their concern about children taking drugs.
On the life of U.S. General George S Patton Junior (with narration by Ronald Reagan). Fight at the Siegfried Line during World War 2. U.S. 3rd Army cross the Siegfried Line. General Patton with his officers. Patton's troops cross the Rhine. American soldiers in the streets of Germany. Patton presents the Medal of Honor to a soldier. Patton sees dead people at a concentration camp in Germany. Patton's army moves towards Denube Valley. Civilians in the streets. Patton with officers. Written on a wall 'Hitler is kaput'. Trucks loaded with soldiers. A gun thrown on a pile of guns on the ground. Patton in a barge. A welcome ceremony for General Patton on his return to US: A parade along Broadway in Los Angeles on June 9, 1945, as over 1 million citizens welcome General Patton home and cheer. Shops and offices on Broadway in Los Angeles. Patton waves at the people from an open jeep. Patton and General Doolittle in Los Angeles. General Doolittle makes a speech at a ceremony and introduces General Patton. Patton addresses the gathering and talks about the war and the accomplishments of the Third Army. He notes that from aerial view, Germany and Austria "look like hell from the top." And "that's what any place that the 8th Air Force and the Third Army worked on looks like." Also Patton says, "You must remember this. That from Brest, to various towns in southern Germany and Austria whose names I can't pronounce, but whose places I have removed," (laughter in crowd), "the trail of the Third Army and the 19th Tactical Air Command and the 8th Air Force is marked by more than forty thousand white crosses; forty thousand dead Americans." View of a military cemetery graveyard. General Patton lays flowers at the grave of one of his soldiers. Patton watches a race at Soldiers Field Academy. He shakes hands with the winners. Soldiers carry Patton's coffin wrapped in American flag. Patton's grave with flowers on it. Two soldiers stand beside it. Patton's statue at the West Point Military Academy.
Several Keystone LB-5s (triple tails) and LB-5As (double tails) move across an airfield, circa 1928. Test bombing of captured German battleship, Ostfriesland, in 1921. Smoke arises due to bombing. A formation of four Martin NBS-1 bombers over the former USS Alabama (BB-8), in the Chesapeake Bay, on September 23, 1921. A white phosphorus bomb explodes atop the ship raising a huge white cloud. One of the Martin bombers flies low over the water drops a smoke curtain. (World War II period).
Jacqueline Kennedy's motorcade with people on both sides of the streets in Pakistan. Soldiers of Khyber Rifles. A band of Khyber Rifles. Jacqueline Kennedy stands with other ladies. Jacqueline Kennedy with other dignitaries. A board shows the way to Khyber Pass. Jacqueline Kennedy at the House of Governor of Peshawar. Traditional dance by Pakistani men.
View of flak filled sky with tracer shells during Japanese kamikaze aircraft attacks on U.S. Navy warships in Pacific Ocean during World War II. Several kamikaze planes are hit and crash into sea. Scenes of U.S. Navy task force. Smoke columns rise.
A U.S. Army at snowcapped bunkers at the top of a hill during Korean War. Soldiers keep a watch from atop the hill and conduct routine patrols. One soldier showing a army jeep under a camouflage cover. Soldiers occupying their positions in tanks and a bunker respectively. 1951.
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