The Spanish Civil War. A French ship on guard off the coast of Alicante, Spain. The German battleship Wiesbaden and USS Kane off the coast of Alicante. USS Kane after being attacked by Spanish aircraft. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull explains the American point of view about the attack.
Unites States forces in Lebanon during the Lebanese crisis. U.S. Army soldiers lined up. Chief of Staff of Lebanese Army, General Fouad Chehab, and U.S. Army General Paul D. Adams walk towards Robert McClintock, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon. General Chehab shakes hands with Robert McClintock as General Adams looks on. U.S. State Department representative Robert Murphy, personal representative of President Eisenhower, stands in the background. General Chehab gets in a waiting Cadillac limousine. Another Lebanese official wearing a fez gets in the front passenger seat and the car drives away. Journalists take pictures.
Interview in Washigton DC, with reporter from The Hague joining via telephone. Guest U.S. Senator Jim Sasser from Tennessee and Arnold L Raphel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. They discuss the similarity between the United States action in Grenada and the Soviets occupying Afghanistan.
United States Air Force Colonel Richard C Catledge speaks about his routine activities at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam. He speaks about his activities and his combat mission in seven days operation. He states that he usually visits the maintenance, supply and alert facility. (Vietnam War period).
On Utah and Mormonism (LDS or Latter Day Saints). Dramatization of the Mormon migration, showing large wagon train crossing prairies and wagons, horses, and cowboys crossing a river; scenes of snow covered mountains as people continue westward; view of people overlooking Salt Lake City valley. Mormon people farming, locust attack on farms and people massed together beating down locusts with shovels. Depiction of seagulls arriving in mass to destroy the locusts. Actual footage showing elevated view of Salt Lake City including Mormon Temple, Temple Square, and Utah State Capitol building in the mid 1940s. View of Fort Douglas building in Utah. Sign on board reads 'Separation Center Fort Douglas'. U.S. Army soldier at the separation center in Fort Douglas after his return from duty in World War 2. Army corporal receives a certificate that reads 'United States Army Honorable Discharge'. U.S. Army Corporal with his wife.
United States President Lyndon B Johnson meets Chief Executive of West Germany, President Heinrich Lübke, at the Hammerschmidt Villa (Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 16, 53113 Bonn, Germany) in Bonn, Germany. He also meets with German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger. Also seen are U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and German politician Willy Brandt.
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