United States President Lyndon B Johnson addresses congress in Washington DC several days after the assassination death of President Kennedy. Brief view of house chamber watching President Johnson is seen during the clip. Segment of speech from Johnson's address to congress is seen, in which Johnson states, "In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. We must be prepared at one and the same time for both the confrontation of power and the limitation of power."
United States President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy being welcomed by Governor Luis Munoz Marin of Paraguay in Asunción, Paraguay. Students welcome President Kennedy and show banner. Formal dinner at the Palacio de los López (Av Paraguayo Independiente, Asuncion 001012 Paraguay). The president flies to Venezuela. Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt receives President Kennedy at airport in Caracas. Large crowd gather to see president. President calls his wife Jacqueline to speak. She comes forward and addresses in Spanish. Crowd cheer. President with his wife arrives in Bogota, Colombia. More dignitaries receive President Kennedy. President sitting with others at dining table during the State Dinner.
Signing of ratified version of the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States and Soviet Union. Treaty Room at White House in Washington DC. President John F Kennedy signs the ratified Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Senator Hubert H Humphrey and other senators in the background.
Opens with bell tolling Victory against Germany in World War II. Next, a slate reads: "Victory Leads to Peace," and a farmer is seen with cattle pulling a plow. But narrator says "the problem now is future peace," and a map of Germany is shown overlaid with "Your Job in Germany." A cartoon of a soldier is superimposed on the map, along with one of a World War 1 American soldier and a figure of possible future soldier with similar mission. Camera focuses on parts of German aircraft in a jumbled heap. Closeups of weary defeated German soldiers at end ot World War II. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler speaking and haranguing an audience from a podium in an animated and forceful way. Swastika flags displayed from houses in a quaint German town. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, at a microphone. Glimpse of a German concentration camp. But as they appear, each of the Nazi elements promptly disappears, showing the scenes without such Nazi symbols and persons. Skeleton remains of bombed buildings. Flower displays. Bucolic German rural countryside and quaint old villages in peaceful settings. Camera focuses on a book titled "German History." Chapter I, titled "Blood and Iron," shows Image of Otto von Bismarck. German troops march in a parade. Narrator states that "under Bismarck, the German empire was built." (He formed the German Empire in 1871, unifying Germany with himself as Imperial Chancellor, while retaining control of Prussia at the same time.) The film shows mounted German lancers as it alludes to Bismarck's campaigns against Denmark in 1867; Austria in 1866; and France, in 1870. Germany's leaders celebrating its status, in 1871, as the mightiest power in Europe. Troops marching and girls dancing nearby. Farmers plowing field with a horse and cow. Classic peaceful rural alpine scenes with local people in agricultural pursuits. A group of local German musicians playing folk music as village people dance outdoors. Back to the book, Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown on Chapter 2, entitled: "Deutschland über Alles." Gathering of German soldiers in Pickelhaube (spiked helmets). A German Big Bertha howitzer firing. German troops marching against Serbia; Russia; and France (with view of war damaged French cathedral). German invasion of Belgium in 1940 (with view of clock tower resting in rubble). German troops seen in Italy, walking past battle-damaged buildings. German Zeppelin dropping bombs on British targets and view of bombed out London neighborhood. Next scene shows a capsized ship with survivors running across its hull. Film slate labels the scene as United States, as if it is a U.S. ship attacked by Germany. (Actually, it is the Austro-Hungarian Battleship, SMS Szent Istvan, torpedoed, by Italian torpedo boats, during World War I.) Next, American soldiers in trench are seen going "over the top" and into "no man's land" on the western front of World War 1. Glimpse through a window of Kaiser Wilhelm II, after defeat of Germany, in 1918. View of Germans in a Beer Garden. Picturesque view of German town. A German orchestra performing. American soldiers marching out of Germany, with flags waving. Back to the history book,as chapter III is revealed, entitled "Today Germany, tomorrow, the world," and featuring Adolf Hitler. German troops invading Austria (where a civilian lies dead on the ground). German troops entering Czechoslovakia (where local people in tears render the Nazi salute). They march into Poland (where a girl weeps over someone, not seen, on the ground). They march into France (where a wounded, bandaged child cries in a bed). Next, is a scene from England, where a British child victim of bombing lies dead in the remains of a shelter. German troops invading Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and Russia (where a woman tries to rouse a dead woman). They invade Yugoslavia (where women sit near coffins of children) and Greece (where a woman rescues a naked child). A U.S. merchant ship explodes after being torpedoed by a German submarine (unseen). Scenes of destruction with people plucking dead victims from rubble of buildings. American troops invading Normandy, France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Several American soldiers fall to German gunfire on the beach. Wounded American soldiers being transported in jeeps on the battlefield and being placed on landing craft for evacuation. Americans walking past huge piles of destroyed aircraft parts. A landing craft filled with wounded American soldiers. American wounded and dead on a battlefield. Sailors abandoning a burning American ship by jumping into the sea. A sailor picked up in a life boat. A wounded American soldier being dragged from the beachhead at Normandy. Various wounds being treated by U.S. Medical Corps personnel. More scenes of American wounded being moved on stretchers. Scene shifts abruptly to German people folk dancing. Film concludes with question marks about the future.
A meeting of Pan American Nations delegates at the Pan American Union headquarters in Washington DC (soon after becoming the OAS or Organization of American States). National flags of various participant nations at a partially constructed building. Officials and dignitaries address the assembly. An official lays a stone in the building as part of the ceremony. Audience listens to the address of speakers. Near end of clip is a brief, unrelated segment with an early United States Air Force helicopter model, small with an open cockpit, being flown in front of a McDonnell Aircraft Corporation building.
Democratic National Convention of 1968 held at International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois United States. Democratic representatives from all states arrive to attend the convention. Prominent democratic leaders arrive for the convention. Hubert Humphrey and other leaders descend from their cars, walk towards the meeting hall. Leaders greeted by other Democrats.
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