Demonstration growing out ot frustrated efforts to register African American voters in Selma, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. Large number of civil rights demonstrators assemble in Selma, preparing to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A charter bus arrives carrying marchers for demonstration. A crowd of demonstrators in the background. A large crowd of demonstrators assembling. A traffic jam on a road. One of the organizers of the march instructs participants and they line up prepared to proceed. Demonstrators hold protest banners. The banners read : 'White Alabamians, Say what is right, Do what is right', 'Police intimidation enslaves us all', 'We saved our children a just society' and 'Silence is no longer Golden'. A White American woman, holding a protest banner, is asked questions by media persons. Marchers standing on a road.
Civil rights leaders at the White House in Washington DC. The "Big 6" leaders pose at the White House. Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement moves ahead and is greeted by leaders present. Cameramen take photos. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders stand in a group and talk. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dorothy Height speaking to Robert Kennedy. James Farmer, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young also seen, as well as Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson. View of the White House.
Wolfe Bros. furniture and appliance store is looted by rioters in Washington, D.C. during unrest following the death of Martin Luther King. View of bed in broken store window. African American man pushes a large chest of drawers with attached mirror as he passes a fire truck. Men carry a sofa away. A looter carries two chairs. A young woman smiles as she holds a round table. A woman rushes by with a side table in a shopping cart. Several lamps are looted from the Wolfe Bros. store. Men carry a large blue upholstered chair. A boy smiles at the camera, as does a large woman carrying food.
Hollywood star Jimmy Stewart visits Reno, Nevada. Jimmy Stewart drives past a huge crowd on road. A Rodeo show in the town. Jimmy Stewart speaks over microphone and shows a copy of his next movie 'Night Passage'. Cowboys ride bulls. They fall on the ground.
A motorcycle and car stunt show at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Four men, dubbed 'The Cytricks Group,' ride four motor cycles while holding each others hands. They display various formations on a motorcycle while it is driven down the track. A clown travels down the track riding a mini bike. Men from the Transworld Auto Daredevils drive cars and perform stunts for the spectators. As a demolition stunt, they crash a car advertising 'Super Auto Parts' into a car advertising 'Litsinger Bonds' after jumping it off a ramp. They then drive a car through a fire ring.
Italian luxury Liner Andrea Doria sinks off Nantucket in a collision with the Swedish Liner Stockholm. Cruise ship passengers aboard the Italian vessel rescued by Coast Guards and members of other ocean liners. Liner Andrea Doria lies sideways on the sea surface. Seriously injured people being flown in by helicopters. Liner Andrea Doria sinks into the sea. Rescued people with their family members.
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