United States General Courtney Hughes speaks during a radio talk in United States. General Courtney H. Hodges speaks into a microphone as he talks to radio audiences soon after the end of World War II in Europe. He says that he is happy to be home and will soon visit his home town in Georgia. He says that after that he will visit Washington and then leave for the South Pacific where the United States 1st Army has been ordered to go. He poses with other officers.
United States Army cameraman seen recording Nike missile launch. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud in the distance. Army troops carried to a field by Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. U.S. infantry climb a hill firing their rifles. U.S. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen narrates the film. He speaks about the role of the soldier in the United States Army. Scientists inside a control room during a rocket launch. A rocket launch in the United States. Rocket tracker and telescope move to the rocket’s direction. Cameramen taking footage of rocket launch. Jet propulsion with rocket. A V2 rocket launch. A jet explodes after launching. A nuclear bomb explosion. A missile takes off. Devices and people track missile takeoff. A rocket launches from a ship. Midair explosion after a rocket hits a target aircraft.
Meeting of a Committee in United States during World War II. Officials gather inside a building. The officials discuss amongst themselves. United States Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley address the officials and talk about the policy of the United States in China.
Meeting of a committee in the United States. Officials seated inside a building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about the United States policy towards China during World War II. Discussion about the mutual aid pact with China. He states that the U.S. always want the unity and democracy of the Chinese people. He declares support for a democratic China under the national government of the Republic of China, and Chiang Kai-shek.
Meeting of a Committee in the United States. Officials seated inside the building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about harmonized relationship between the United States and China. He also speaks about the unity of the armies of the United States and China in World War II.
The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. A television broadcast showing Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy's lead in the Presidential Election. A correspondent recording figures on a sheet of paper. The returns in a tabulating machine checked by Kennedy's press secretary. The interiors of the press headquarters of the Democratic Presidential candidate in Massachusetts. Men and women viewing a television. The television commentator announces that Republican Presidential Richard Nixon is about to make a statement. A clock showing 3.20 AM. Richard Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon in California, standing behind a podium in front of a tally board which shows Presidential Election summary. Nixon waves at the crowd. His speech being broad casted on television. Richard Nixon talks about the importance of how elections work in the United States, that they are hard fought, but once the decision is made we united behind the man who is elected, and he says that if Kennedy goes on to win the election and becomes the President of the United States then Kennedy will have his whole hearted support. The crowd cheering and applauding. Nixon waving at the crowd. Men and women going out of a building. Vacant chairs in the Republican Party headquarters. A tally board showing figures of the election results. A few men and women in the headquarters.
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