The AFN (Armed Forces Network) staff including announcers, researchers and editors work at AFN radio station. Staff member types on a typewriter. Senior newscaster briefs announcer before a news broadcast. Announcer reading news from a sheet of paper, speaks over microphone. Clock on Wall with AFN Berlin written under it. Another announcer broadcasts news in Berlin.
Opening scene is an animated map showing Coast Guard Stations on Long Island, New York and on New Jersey coasts. Aerial view of Coast Guard Station Number 75. Narrator says manual life boats are launched into the surf from this Station. Camera pans closeup over the station, showing its buildings. Aerial view of inlet on South shore of Long Island from which powered life boats can launch into calm waters. Aerial view of the Fire Island (Long Island) Coast Guard Station with launching runway for power boats. Ground level closeup of the Fire Island Station. A power lifeboat being launched down its runway. Water level view of the power lifeboat speeding along the inlet towards the open sea. View from a height of the path the power lifeboat will follow to the sea. Change of scene shows map of life guard stations along Eastern shore of Maryland, the coast of Virginia and area around the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, with focus on cities of Norfolk and Newport News. It also extends South to outer islands of North Carolina. Battered hulk of a ship in surf in this area.
American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser ignites a blast furnace at a new steel mill on the Pacific Coast during World War II . The new steel mill at a Kaiser shipyard. Henry J. Kaiser ignites a blast furnace at a new steel mill tooled to support the construction of Victory ships. People gathered at the inauguration of the steel mill. A man at work. A view of the steel mill.
Plot to blow up U.S. landmarks is uncovered in New York on February 16, 1965. Views of targets to blow up American landmarks in various cities. Multiple views of the Statue of Liberty in New York, front and back from the water and from the air. Next scene is low aerial view of the George Washington Monument equestrian statue at Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Eakins Oval. Car traffic seen and view of tall building skyline of Philadelphia. Exterior view of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, followed by view of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, View of reflecting pool and the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington DC. View of largely empty parking lot near the Woodland apartments in New York City. Bomb squad men wearing protective gear are seen moving package of dynamite. Bomb squad truck moving through city streets. The plot was organized by Robert Steele Collier, Walter Augustus Bowe, and Khaleel Sultran Sayyed of Black Liberation Front or BLF, and also a Canadian women, Michelle Duclos, of a Quebec separatist party. Undercover police officer Raymond Wood is seen getting an award for uncovering the plot.
Instant Rehabilitation Project by Housing and Urban Department in Manhattan, New York City. Lower east side tenement buildings seen. Construction and electrical maintenance crew working. Prefabricated kitchens and baths lowered through the roof of old tenement buildings by cranes. Installations of ceilings, floors and walls. New York City police officer crossing street in front of housing project and stopping in front of camera to talk.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Men gather in Masters Hall in the State House of Representatives in South Carolina. Majority of African Americans sit in the hall. An African American speaker speaks in the hall in front of everyone. Another African American man eats on the table. They talk amongst themselves. A man drinks. One of them puts his shoes on the table. A man puts his legs on the table. They misbehave. Speaker asks everyone to wear shoes. White visitors seen in the gallery. An intermarriage bill passed in the meeting. People talk. African American people cheer.
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