Singers play sitar and tabla in Shalimar Gardens (AH1, G. T. Road, Shalamar Town, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan) in Lahore, Pakistan. United States First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy addresses people. She boards Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 plane. Flags of the United States and Pakistan. Pakistan International Airlines plane taxiing in Karachi Airport.
People watch former President John F Kennedy's State funeral in Washington DC. Soldiers take the President's casket. Flags at half mast in honor of former President Kennedy. A parade to honor him. The dignitaries include Chief Justice Earl Warren and Adlai Stevenson. People cry. Soldiers walk beside the cart carrying his casket. American flag at United States Capitol building.
A massive crowd on city streets of New York gathered to cheer Marshal Joseph Joffre of France on his visit to the United States during World War 1. (This is likely the New York City "Joffre Day" celebration on May 11, 1917). Cars move in between the crowd. People carry U.S. flags. Marshal Joseph Joffre talks with a man during his visit to United States. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, in uniform, salutes as a band plays the U.S. National Anthem. He is standing before a battery of microphones, on the steps of the State Legislature in Jackson, Mississippi, next to U.S. Senator, James O. Easland. Scene shifts forward to Senator Eastland delivering a speech of introduction for MacArthur (who had been relieved of his commands, 11 months earlier, by President Harry S. Truman). MacArthur places his notes on the podium and the crowd gives him sustained applause. MacArthur begins by thanking Eastland for the introduction, and addresses the members of the State legislature and citizens of Mississippi. He praises the traditions and contributions of the South to the Country. Film stops momentarily and picks up again as MacArthur says America stands at a crossroads, where one path follows to the principals and ideals upon which rested our country's past grandeur. He says on the other lies the arbitrary rule of men leading to the ultimate loss of constitutional liberty. View of crowd applauding. MacArthur criticizes weakness and vacillation as undermining America's moral leadership of the world. He criticizes U.S. Government domestic spending and reckless dissipation of America's national assets. Intermittent views of crowd receptive to his remarks. He remarks about U.S. Government "propaganda," and quotes Benjamin Franklin, saying "A half truth is often a great lie."
Secretary of State George C. Marshall arrives with President Harry Truman in a car at an airport. The Secretary talks with persons there. President shakes hands with him and bids goodbye. He moves to an airplane which displays on the door an official seal of the President of United States. The Secretary waves goodbye towards the people at the airport. The plane takes off.
United States Army soldiers changing military payment certificates (MPC) currency at their headquarters in Long Binh Vietnam. A worker of the United States Army applies official seal on the forms submitted by the soldiers. Notice for the soldiers for the formalities to be carried for exchange process. Soldiers outside the office signing up forms, standing and waiting for their number. (Vietnam War period).
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