A crowd of spectators, numbering 27,000, gathered to watch the $100,000 handicap horse race, at the Gulfstream Park in Florida, United States. The race starts with a clean break and number 7, "Bold Purple", takes the early lead. But, as the 1and a quarter mile race continues, other horses trade the lead until it is finally won by number 6, "Yorkie."
NASA in the United States launches space probe Ranger VII from Cape Canaveral launch pad LC-12 for a mission to photograph the surface of the moon. The space probe Ranger VII during its launching aboard an Atlas missile. View of some of the more than 700 photographs of the moon's surface taken by the cameras on the space ship.
Secret atomic bomb research and tests by United States Atomic Energy Commission, in Nevada, during the Cold War. A group of scientists aboard an aircraft performs secret research about atomic bomb explosions. The scientists put on gas masks and goggles for eye protection, and work with analysis and measurement equipment aboard the airplane. An atomic bomb explosion is seen below and the plane passes above near the atomic mushroom as volunteers test their eye protection. On the ground, cameras in the blast wave record damage incurred to parked airplanes on the ground by the force of the explosion blast wave. An airplane tail section burns while it traverses the explosion cloud. A giant Boeing B-50 Superfortress bomber codenamed Rosebud is seen on an atomic bombing run in an actual atomic test. The pilot and bombardier are shown in the plane, the target sight is seen on the ground, and the atomic blast is seen from the B-50 flying overhead. Massive explosion and mushroom cloud seen forming. The atomic cloud rises up in sky.
Tornadoes kill 47 and injure many causing $1,000,000 property damage in Alabama and Mississippi, United States. Damaged houses and rubble and debris in cities. People and military troops at relief work. Box cars damaged by the tornadoes. Relief workers and Red Cross servicemen rescue people from the debris.
U.S. soldiers demonstrate a mobile laundry developed by Quartermaster Corps for the troops in field. A mobile laundry truck passes through a forest in Maryland, United States. It is parked near a pond. Two soldiers put a landing gear on the ground so that a container may rest on it. Two soldiers set the corner stand jack. The trailer is uncoupled and the prime mover is camouflaged under a tree. Four soldiers set up the laundry machine. The soldiers connect a pipe from the machine to the pond. Two soldiers setting up a water pump. The soldiers unloading laundry from a truck. A soldier puts on the washing machine. A soldiers loads the machine with clothes. A soldier takes out the clothes from the centrifugal drier. Two soldiers take out dry clean cloths. Some soldiers pack the clean cloths. A truck filled with the clean clothes leaves. (World War II period).
Involvement of National Council of African American Women (NCNW) in the Forest Heights housing project in Mississippi, United States. The National President of NCNW, Dr. Dorothy Height speaks (in voiceover) about the project. Film shows another woman surveying poor and low income families. A Council member speaks to an African American woman. Some NCNW workers sitting in office. NCNW workers have meeting in the office. The author of a new program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Turn Key III, Associate General Council, Joseph Burstein explains the program. An African American woman with a child stands near him. Four men sitting in the office. A man explains the program with a briefing chart..
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