A reception for U.S. President Richard Nixon at the Niavaran Palace (Tehran Province Tehran District 1 Niavaran St, Niavaran Square, Iran) in Tehran, Iran. President Nixon, the First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon and Farah Pahlavi, Shahbanu or Empress of Iran, greet guests prior to a sumptuous state dinner. Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and President Nixon talk to each other while they shake hands with others. President Nixon, Shah and spouses heading for the dinner.
U.S. President Richard Nixon attends a state dinner at the Niavaran Palace (Tehran Province Tehran District 1 Niavaran St, Niavaran Square, Iran) in Tehran, Iran. President Nixon speaks with Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Pahlavi. President Nixon and the Shah walk in a palace followed by the First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon and Farah Pahlavi. The Shah speaks with President Nixon.
During the Vietnam War, representatives from the United States, South Vietnam and North Vietnam meet, in Paris, France, to finalize the Paris Peace Accords ending Vietnam hostilities. Principal negotiators to end the war are U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and North Vietnamese counterpart , Le Duc Tho. The delegates are seated at a large rectangular table, with Henry Kissinger at center of one side and Le Duc tho, at center of opposite side. Other delegates occupy seats adjacent to their respective principals. (Location: Majestic Hotel?) Photographers try to take photographs without being obtrusive. The mood of the meeting appears restrained but pleasant.
Dixiecrat democrats of the States' Rights Democratic Party at convention in Birmingham Alabama (after rejecting civil rights for African Americans in platform of the 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Pennsylvania). People in favor of continued racial segregation enter the building of 'State Rights Democrat' along with flag of United States to revolt against the civil rights plank of the Truman-Barkley ticket. William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, a vocal proponent of racial segregation, is seen and flags behind him include a confederate flag. Dixie Democrats (The States' Rights Democratic Party) hold their own convention. Banners of states of Alabama and Mississippi in convention hall, with representatives who abandoned the democratic convention at Philadelphia. Fielding Lewis Wright, Democratic politician, and Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, stands among Democrats. Governor James Strom Thurmond of South Carolina speaks and denounces racial integration efforts by the federal government and says that the country is on the path of being a totalitarian state. Strom Thurmond gets the State's Rights Party nomination for President of the United States.
German scientist, Doctor Friedrich Doblhoff, during "Operation Paperclip" at Wright Field in Ohio United States. He sits in his helicopter (type : WNF-342 version3) having jet-propelled rotor blades. A U.S airmen, in flight suit, stands outside the helicopter in the field. The blades of the helicopter rotate, speed up, slow down and speed up again during tests.
German scientists experimenting with parachutes during OSS Operation Paperclip at Wright Field in Ohio, United States. Two scientists stand upon rim of a vertical wind tunnel. 3 parachutes are tied on a pipe in the tunnel. A scientist bends a parachute with a stick and lets it expand. The other scientist near him helps him record readings.
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