Film opens showing a U.S. Army M115 Field Howitzer 8 inch (Towed) firing in a field. fireball emerges from the gun barrel. Several M101-105mm-howitzers fire in a field. Gun crews firing M114 155 mm Howitzers. Next scene shows numerous black flak clouds over a hilly landscape. Then shells explode on the ground. Glimpse of the breech on a 155mm M1 gun. A soldier holding his ears as he calls a firing command. A crew firing an M115 8-inch Field Howitzer. An Honest John missile in firing position on a mobile launcher. It is launched and rises vertically creating heavy clouds of smoke. Next, several 155mm M109, Self Propelled howitzers are seen proceeding along a dirt road. A gun crew fires a 105mm Howitzer M101A1 (Towed) under direction of a Sergeant. A Warhead (conventional, or nuclear) being assembled to the motor of an Honest John Missile MGR-1B (M50) 762mm Rocket. Next, a soldier installs tail vanes on the missile whick is seen being slowly raised upward on its M386 mobile launcher.
A field with trees in patches at distant. A soldier views through telescope. He looks at a rocket launcher. Trucks move on ground. A rocket is fired. It rises in air.
762mm rocket MGR-1B (M50) is also known by name 'Honest John'. A truck moves on road. 2 rockets and a launcher are present in the assembly area. Rocket is positioned. War head is fixed to the motor with 4 bolts. The rocket loaded on a truck moves. It arrives at a place in field. Soldiers of handling unit,M405, place rocket on launcher. The rocket is secured by steel shoes. The launch beams are folded. The rocket is covered with blanket. The launcher, 17 ton M386, moves on road with rocket fixed on it. It arrives in a field. A soldier moves the handle of the jack. Soldiers remove blanket cover of the rocket. The crew also extends the launcher beam. Rocket fins are attached. A soldier views through telescope. Soldiers set the wind measuring set. It moves. Soldiers elevate the launcher. A soldier again looks in the telescope. Soldiers get down from launcher. Two soldiers sit near a remote control device. A soldier speaks on phone. Another soldier pushes a button in the remote. The M50 is fired. An explosion at a far off site (38 Km) occurs with an eruption of smoke and dust.
Rube Collins, African American tenant farmer in the American rural south, at work as he sharpens his tools. Hannah, his wife, draws a bucket of water from well. Obe, one of his sons, is holding a rifle or shotgun which he inspects. A woman feeds poultry. A child sits on stairs and eats. People engaged in farming in the fields. They use a tool, possibly a hoe, clearing space between planted rows of a crop, possibly cotton. They leave the fields. African American children play in front of a simple farmhouse or cabin, with one out building. A man plays violin and a older woman sits next to him in a rocking chair. Children wearing no shoes dance in the dirt in front of the house.
Rube Collins, a tenant farmer and Phillpot, his neighbor with horses in a field. Phillpot shows pest infected cotton plant to Collins. Both move to their landlord on horses. Collins comes out with landlord and shows him the sample of infected plant. The three of them, along with county agent reviews the sample. More people gather around them. Boll Weevil moves in infected plants. Farmers pick infected plants and burn them. Farmers moving in a field, behind horse drawn plows. Collins working in a corn field. Collins, Hannah and Obe engaged in their works outside their house.
Jesse Jackson is interviewed in a press conference. Henry McGee, Newsweek Magazine; Patrick Borgan, London Times; and Judith Randal, New York Daily News comprise the interview board. Bill McCrory of Voice of America is the moderator. Jesse Jackson answers the Interview board over the moral authority of black Americans.
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