Cactus plants being examined at the Apache Trail in Arizona. Two horticultural scientists move through the Apache Trail. Huge cactus plants in the foreground. The scientists examine a 261 year old cactus plant to preserve it. They take down notes.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on a picnic with Democrats at Jefferson Island, Maryland. Members of the Democratic Party prepare to play baseball. A baseball game underway. The Democrats gather around President Roosevelt as they laugh and greet the President. The Democrats walk down a pier after the picnic.
A documentary about Project Breakthrough, by the office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program to teach preschool children language skills in Cook County, Illinois. Views on city streets of Chicago where residents live in poverty. African American people gathered in small groups. African American children on sidewalks and in small groups. AFrican American men talking together in front of store fronts. Litter and garbage on the street. Poor people, mainly African Americans, on the streets. An African American girl crosses the street. A woman carrying a child walks along the sidewalk. Close-up view of legs and shoes of people walking atop litter on the street. Director of Cook County Department of Public Aid William H Robinson seated at a desk.
Restrospective of the 1954 search for a suitable site for U.S. Air Force testing of ballistic missiles. Coastal area with ocean in the background. Officials look over charts, maps, photographs as they select the site for Vandenberg Air Force Base. In January, 1958, view of building with a sign that reads ' Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base' Entrance of the headquarters as Major General David Wade walks out. U.S. Air Force officers and airmen attend missile training classes. Airmen work on assembly of Thor missiles . U.S. Air Force officers and airmen operate missile launch consoles in a launch control center. November, 1958, Thor intermediate range missile on a trailer being delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base. Trailer backs up to the launch pad. December, 16, 1958, the Thor missile on launch pad venting gases. U.S. Air Forces officers at a launch console. The Thor missile is launched. RAF airmen watch missile in flight.
Activities of Strategic Air Command (SAC) 576th Missile Training Squadron. Atlas ICBM on launch pad. Airmen work around base of missile. The 392nd Missile Training Squadron has responsibility for 5 Thor missile launch pads. Aerial view of Thor missile complex. Thor missile raised on operational launch pad. Ocean in the background. Airmen work on missile. Other pads used for launch of Discoverer Orbiting vehicles. 395th Missile Training Squadron involved with Titan Missile crews. A Titan missile being launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Test launch of a tethered Minuteman missile. It climbs and then flips over and is pulled to earth by tether. Atlas missile on trailer. Atlas in a launch tower being readied for launch from permanent vertical position. . Airmen work around Atlas. Other Atlas missiles, placed in a horizontal position, and being raised in vertical position for firing. Semi-hardened bunker constructed for Atlas. Officers in control room watch instrument panels and gauges. Titan missile being raised upward into firing postion from inside hardened silo. Sign reads 'Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg AFB'. USAF airmen and officers attend missile classes. Officers and airmen operate missile launch controls in a launch control center. Thor missile on launch pad. Airmen work in assembly. Various missiles being raised for firing.
Thor-Agena orbital launch vehicle being prepared for launch from Vandenberg AFB, California. Entrance of Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Vandenberg AFB. Truck coming out of the building. Workmen mate Agena vehicle to Thor missile. Thor-Agena being raised to launch position on pad. Interiors of control and data compilation center. Various tracking centers, dish-shaped tracking antenna at Vandenberg AFB, radome at Kodiak in Alaska, TLM-18 antenna at Kaena Point in Hawaii, and tracking vessel at sea.
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