Photographs of Civil Rights leader Roy Wilkins in his early childhood, youth, and adulthood. Wilkins' photograph in a newspaper with an article. Roy Wilkins addresses crowd. He is in office at work. Wilkins with African American children. Clarence Mitchell talks about Roy Wilkins. Capitol building in background. People sitting idle and move on streets. Photographs show racist hate crime lynching hanging of African Americans. Photographs show Roy Wilkins with different people.
Civil Rights leader Roy Wilkins talks and reflects on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom . View of marchers carrying banners advocating equal rights. Clarence Mitchell talks about Roy Wilkins.
Aerial view of Aircraft Carrier Franklin D Roosevelt. Planes lying stationary on the aircraft carrier, Roosevelt. He is greeted by Secretary Forests, Admirals Nimitz and Mitscher. He boards the carrier Roosevelt. He meets members of crew. Truman observes 8th Fleet maneuvers. He tours the ship and watches planes take off, land and making formations in sky.
Pilot, Major Woodrow Swancutt and Bombardier, Major Harold H. Wood, are interviewed in front of their B-29 "Dave's Dream," after returning from their mission, dropping an atomic bomb on the Bikini Atoll, in Test Able, of the Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Both officers wear unit patch on left pocket of their flight suits, showing an atomic explosion and the words, "59th Wing."
Activities following the Test Able atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads. Ground crewman unseals a cable from fuselage and uses it to pull and air sampler box off the top of a B-17 drone aircraft. He avoids being hit by it as it tumbles from atop the airplane. He then drags it to a spot on the ramp, where a man with a geiger counter checks it for radioactivity. Two men transport it on a long pole, to a fork lift. Several other B-17 drones are seen with ground crews offloading them remotely, by means of cables and remote activation of controls inside the B-17 bomb bays. A forklift operator loads an item into the rear hatch of a waiting C-54 transport aircraft.
Sailors on Lafayette 616 submarine. Crew assembling Mark 2 missile. Missile inserted into the liner. A man tightening bolts. Crewman preparing hoisting frame. Crewmen fits hoisting frame around the missile. Closing with a lid. Liner put on a trailer truck. Hoisting unit attached to the liner. A man is attaching plug. Man shows remote control instrument by pointing out. A man reversing phase by switching to another output. Man opens the switch box and turns the switch on. A man climbs the shaft. A man unlocks a lid. A truck is taking missile coming out of the assembly plant.
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