Telephone conversation between U.S. President Richard Nixon and the astronauts of Apollo 11, while they are on the moon, July 20th, 1969. President Nixon seated at a desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States. Technicians setting up video cameras. Nixon talks over a phone. Men setting up a monitor screen. Flickering moving images of the astronauts beside the Lunar Lander, on the surface of the moon. A camera focuses in on a document titled: DRAFT 'Talk to men on the moon' on the desk. The opening sentence reads: "This is an epic day in the history of man." A split image on the screen shows President Nixon talking and the astronauts on the moon. President Nixon talking to an astronaut on a phone at his desk in the Oval Office. Picture of "Earthrise" as seen from the moon, on wall in the Oval Office. NASA Astronaut, Frank Borman,who commanded the Apollo 8 mission,in 1968, comes before the cameras in the White House and makes speaks on behalf of NASA astronauts involved in the Apollo missions.
U.S. President Richard Nixon visits Guam and Manila in the Philippines. President Nixon travels in an army jeep along a road. President Nixon and Guam officials walk past troops lined up at an airport. The First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon descends from Presidential aircraft and walks with President Nixon. A crowd gathered to welcome President Nixon. President Nixon delivers a speech. Filipino officials, troops and crowd at Manila International Airport to welcome President Nixon. Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos greets President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon. President Nixon and Filipino officials walk past troops.
U.S. President Richard Nixon visits Manila, Philippines. Trucks loaded with men move. President Nixon's motorcade moves ahead. A sign reads 'Landing on Moon'. Flag waving children lined up along a street. President Nixon walks through a cheering crowd. President Nixon and the First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon with others at Malacanang Palace.
U.S. Task Force ships battle Japanese enemy aircraft in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A Japanese aircraftgoes down in flames as the United States Task Force battles a sudden air attack. A U.S. fighter aircraft lands on a carrier deck on one wheel. Nigh attack scenes (or possibly dawn or dusk): Two Japanese airplanes are attacked by massive barrage of anti aircraft fire from U.S. Navy ship. One of the aircraft is seen on fire, in a slow arc low arc across the sky until the aircraft, in flames, crashes in the ocean water. Dramatic battle scenes as U.S. ships fight Japanese aircraft at night.
Cleaning up operations by the U.S. Army in Agana, Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. Aerial views of the town of Agana after U.S. Army Air Force bombardment. A Mass is conducted in a field as cleaning up operations continue. Smoke rises from shell explosions. U.S. Marines armed with guns advance cautiously. Wounded are carried behind the firing line by their comrades. Near the same United States Marine marker which stood during the Japanese attack two and a half years ago, the U.S. flag is raised over Guam.
Arnstadt Concentration Camp in Germany captured by American forces in April, 1945 near the end of World War II. Prisoners were mainly Poles and Russians. View from the camp gate to tents which were used to house prisoners. Dogs were used to guard the prisoners. Shown is A dog kennel for a watch dog. Local German citizens had exhumed he bodies of concentration camp victims from their original mass grave, and reburied them in a trench further away from the town because of the stench. Now they were disinterring them again under supervision of United States Army soldiers. A corpse with crushed head. Corpses lying outside the graves from which they have just been exhumed. Bodies laid out on the ground are viewed by several U.S. soldiers
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