Scenes of monument, park and heritage sites in America. A family at a campsite cooking food on portable stoves atop picnic table. Woman and young girl looking at carved faces of presidents on Mount Rushmore, Statue of Liberty and an African American woman taking a picture on the island. Woman with handheld movie camera filming at an overlook of the Grand Canyon. Old man paints a picturesque view beside a seaside town with small boats nearby. Men fishing from rocks on shore with Golden Gate Bridge in background, in San Francisco.
A man and a boy ride together on a tandem bicycle along a road with a beach in the background. A woman riding a motorcycle on a city street. A man riding an antique Penyy Farthing bicycle with a large front wheel and small back wheel. Two boys riding a bicycle. One of the boys sits atop a silver food delivery box in front of the bike, with writing, "Arturo's 106 W. Houston Street, CH-25315" (from Arturo's Pizzeria in Greenwich Village, New York City). Two people biking through a lot of recreational vehicle homes with a expansive desert landscape in the backround. Boys play baseball and children on swings with their parents watching them. Two of they kids are twin boys, dressed identically, and swinging on the swings in the same rhythm. A boy on a tire swing that hangs from a large tree. Boys huddled on a sidewalk playing a game. Camera angle widens and reveals they are in a ridge-top neighborhood with a large industrial factory belching smoke and pollution into the sky in the background. People entering a church on an Autumn day with blue sky and trees with golden leaves changing color for fall. Male teacher in classroom lecturing at a blackboard. Students appear to be older high school or early college age. Various people seated at desks in an office working, and separately a view of equipment and people working in a laboratory. A man seated at a microscope. 1965.
During Cold War at a NATO airbase, siren for a Red Alert exercise sounds and flight personnel scramble and run from a building with sign, "Bomber Alert Assembly Area." View of crew jumping into a waiting station wagon and then arriving at airfield. A fighter aircraft is fueled. Two American USAF pilots seen in cockpit and view of a B-52 readying for takeoff. View of B-52 taking off from runway as seen from camera mounted low on aircraft behind front wheel. Front view of a line of approaching and taking off B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft. Narrator indicates that half the bomber planes, approximately 600, are on ground alert at all times. Narrator indicates that others are aloft at all times, fully armed with nuclear bombs in belly and missile on the wings. Side view of a B-52 in flight so armed. Aerial view of refueling operations. View of pilot in cockpit of B-52. View as the B-52 Stratofortress joins with a fuel tanker at 6 miles above the Arctic, and 100 thousand pounds of fuel is transferred at 400 miles per hour. 1963.
Discussion of the Amercian Eagle with arrows in one claw and an olive branch in the other claw. Scenes depicting arms control in various circumstances.
A man reads news about the Cuban Crisis. World map in background. Photo of John F Kennedy appears in background. Map of Cuba appears in background. Illustration shows circling region of Cuba. Another circle around the first circle.
Scene of the White House. Various scenes of President John F Kennedy working in his office in the White House in Washington DC. President Kennedy at his desk, and with advisors. President arrives at Cape Canaveral on November 16, 1963 for a tour and to witness a Polaris missile launch. Scenes of John F. Kennedy talking with NASA personnel and watching a rocket launch. Wernher Von Braun is seen with Kennedy. Audio includes Kennedy's statement from 1962 at Rice University when he said "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon, and returning him safely to the earth." President Kennedy views models of spacecraft and listens to NASA engineers. View of President Kennedy at the White House presenting the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut John Glenn on February 23, 1962, after Glenn's successful Friendship 7 mission. A helicopter carrying President John Kennedy lands on a ship on November 16, 1963. A sailor blows a whistle. President meets officers on the ship and is seen on the bridge. President Kennedy observes the under water launch of a Polaris missile through binoculars. President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B Johnson with a Navy officer looking at a system used to operate and launch rockets. Audio overlay includes a speech by Kennedy reflecting on the threat of nuclear war.
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