United States NASA spacecraft Gemini IV is launched into orbit from LC-19 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White aloft for White's famous space walk, or Extra-Vehicular Activity 'EVA' Gemini IV in space and White tied to a tether as he walks in space. Shots of McDivitt in capsule.
Convoys of the 7th Fleet of United States Navy supply shipments to blockaded Quemoy, Taiwan, in Formosa Strait. U.S. carriers in the sea and fighter planes aboard. Fighter planes take off from the strip of one of the carrier. Carriers stop near the shore and supply liners cruise towards the shore of Quemoy. Commanders aboard a ship make plans and bombardiers on alert near an artillery gun on a ship.
The 1966 University of Texas tower shooting. 24-year-old student Charles Whitman kills 16 and injures 33 persons at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Policemen and security guards take position and try to reach the sniper at the top of the University of Texas Main Building tower (110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705, United States). Students hide and run away from the tower. A large crowd of students and other people gathered following the aftermath of the mass shooting. Shot guns, rifles, revolvers, and other weapons recovered from the sniper who was killed by policemen.
Wedding of Luci Baines Johnson in Washington DC. Nineteen years old first daughter of the U.S. President Lucy Bains Johnson weds Patrick Nugent at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (400 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20017, United States). Nuns and civilians watch Luci Baines Johnson and Patrick Nugent outside the basilica. The newlywed couple walks out of a church and the bride waves towards her friends and relatives at the venue. Lucy wears the wedding ring. The couple cuts wedding cake. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson stands by them as they cut the cake.
The Motion Picture Industry Council, including the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Screen Actors Guild, Screen Directors Guilde, Screen Writers Guild, meeting to prepare comments to the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in Hollywood, California. The meeting to draft a letter to Congressman Woods of the HUAC Committee. The chairman of the council, Allen Rivkin, speaks from his notes about the "clear and present danger" to the United States by the threat of communism and subversive elements, and Hollywood's support for stopping the "International Communist Party conspiracy." Association members look on, including Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan.
Convoy of Allied A-26 warplanes of the United States Army Air Force in flight over the Alps in Germany, during World War II. Views: Engine and belly of a plane as seen from a plane in flight below it, planes fly in formation as seen from one of the plane, the convoy of planes, Fleet of airplanes in flight.
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