Orrick Missouri: Damage due to sudden tornado. School building destroyed. Roof falls on ground. Broken lights lay on ground. Ruins of house. Men go in a damaged house. New York: People in 1960s fashions at restaurant, women on a small bridge in Central Park. People sit and enjoy spring-like temperatures in New York City. People in Central Park enjoy a horse drawn carriage ride and a woman rides a bicycle in park. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: A car in water. Broken boat on sea shore. Cars go through water. Damaged buses. People besides damaged buses. Dead bodies on platform in river. A turned over car lay on ground. Ruins and litter on road. Trucks and cars go on road. People stand on road and watch.
Democratic Party primary contest activity in Wisconsin. A building in Wisconsin, identified as local headquarters for John F. Kennedy Presidential campaign. Next is a billboard advertising Hubert Humphrey for President. Views of several Kennedy and Humphrey political campaign posters. Cars in parking plade at a olling place. Inside, Wisconsin Democratic voters cast ballots in the primary election. Several views of voters coming and going at the polling place. Next, Republicans are seem gathered at the Republican Womens' National Conference in Washington, DC. Republican notables eating from box lunches, include H. Ross Perot; Senator Barry Goldwater; President and Mrs (Mamie) Eisenhower; Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat. Next, President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon are seen onstage, together, as Ike prepares to speak, indorsing Nixon for President.
Film titled 'Coast to Coast , in 48 hours' depicts advertisement of coast to coast trip by train and air. General W.W. Atterbury, President, Pennsylvania Railroad; Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, Chairman, Technical Committee, TAT Maddux Airlines; Clement M. Keys, Chairman of the board, Transcontinental Air Transport incorporation; Daniel M. Sheaffer, Chairman, TAT inc., Executive Committee and Jack Maddux, President, TAT Maddux Airlines sit around a table. Chairman Keys introduces the other executives seated at the table and describes their novel operations carrying passengers across the American continent, from coast-to-coast, in 48 hours, by means of coordinated rail and air operations under the aegis of the Transcontinental Air Transport Company.
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company's coast-to-coast passengers proceed on their flight legs from Saint Louis, Missouri to Waynoka, Oklahoma. TAT employee closes door on Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor passenger airplane, at St. Louis airport. Ground crewman plugs in compressed air hose to assist start of engine number three. TAT logo seen on side of the airplane. Next, the airplane taxis and takes off on plowed runway of snow-covered field. Animated map shows airplane heading to Kansas City, Missouri. View of cockpit as co-pilot shows weather report to pilot. Shift to a TAT weather station where meteorologists launch a weather balloon to check winds aloft. Closeup of the pilot's weather report being prepared. TAT officer serving lunch food to passengers in the aircraft. View from airplane of Kansas City, and then aerial view as it descends to Wichita, Kansas. Pilots in cockpit. Copilot radios Wichita. View of TAT radio operator responding and saying they should lookout for Lindbergh who is flying the route today. Next, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is seen flying past the Ford Tri-motor in his Curtiss Falcon biplane. Passengers look out to see him. View from the passenger plane descending over the city of Wichita, Kansas. Animated map shows next stop as Waynoka, Oklahoma. View from the air of numerous oil derricks in Oklahoma. Passengers leaving the airplane and boarding a trailer-bus at Waynoka. Closeup of flowers and sign on restaurant table, reading, "TAT, Reserved for TAT travelers." Passengers dining.
Scenes of U.S. Strategic Air Command Minuteman Missile Security Police at work in missile bases at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls. Montans, Minot AFB, North Dakota, Elsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota, Francis E. Warren AFB. Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Whiteman AFB, Missouri. An armed Air Force Security policeman walks past a parked B-52 bomber. Air Force film "Missile Guardians, SAC's Minutemen Security Police." Animated description of Missile Control Facilities. Missile Combat Officer opens 8 ton blast resistant door of facility. Interior of Launch Center with Officer at duty station. Safe (Red) containing missile launch keys. View of missile location, showing fence and intrusion detection radar antenna. Access cover, above missile, with seismic alarm system and combination lock. Security Police Controller in his office. Security alert team is summoned to respond to intrusion alarm. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Security system and procedures for access to unmanned Minuteman Missile sites of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). Shown are procedures used by Security escort accompanying a maintenance team to a site. View of soldier typing on a typewriter and answering phone at the security dispatch office. The security form, called the 'pre-dispatch security notification' is shown. Military escort receiving codes on a card given to him at the dispatch window is also issued and M-16 rifle with 54 rounds. The military escort, dressed in a winter parka, shows that he knows the lock combination using a simulated lock at the dispatch desk. A separate detail goes through similar measures at a separate dispatch desk. Map shows radio check points that will be used by the escort during the missile maintenance activity. Green M1 Dodge truck driving in the desert to missile silo site. Military escort and maintenance crew dressed in winter coats arrive at chain link fence surrounding missile silo in the desert. They unlock the chain link fence gate. They open ground level security hatch. Soldier at missile command answers phone call from them and authorizes. Close up of combination lock set into the ground of the missile silo. Guard unlocks the combination lock and lifts the tube door cover out of the ground. Soldier wearing winter parka with M16 rifle watches as men open hatches to missile silo and descend into silo to perform maintenance. After procedure, men get into the back of the military truck and leave the missile area. Aerial view of minuteman missile site. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
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