Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D Roosevelt in Miami. Sikorsky S-42 Pan Am Clipper flying boat aircraft lands on water. The First Lady comes out of the plane as she returns from an inspection of Puerto Rico. People at dock. A man welcomes Mrs Roosevelt. Large crowd gathers to welcome her. Mrs Roosevelt enters a van as she hurries to catch the train for Washington.
WC-121N Lockheed Super Constellation of Airborne Early Warning Squadron FOUR (VW-4) in flight over the Miami International Airport. VW-4 aircreww walk across a ramp where several WC-121N Aircraft are parked. View of a WC-121N aircraft in flight. View from outside the cockpit window of Pilot, copilot and flight engineer at their respective stations. The radio operator transmitting a message by key. A sailor marking data on a chart back in the Aviation Building in Miami, Florida. a sailor transmitting the information over a teletype machine. Office of the Commanding Officer of VW-4. Their logo on the office sign, containing hurricane warning signal (two gale force flags), a lightning bolt, an eye, and gold wings, plus the words: "Hurricane Hunters." Teletype message being received calling for a mission to make low level investigation of possible tropical depression at 700 millibar level (about 10 thousand foot altitude). VW-4 crew in the U.S. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, planning the mission over a weather chart.
Under National Youth Administration girls assist nurses at a hospital in Puerto Rico. They look after the children in a hospital. Women work on sewing machine at a NYA sewing project. Women also work in farm.
Men transplant seedlings at the agricultural experimental station under National Youth Administration in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. A tree grown from a seedling. Men drain mosquito infested ditches to fight against malaria. Girls march to create awareness against malaria. Ditches cleaned up. (World War II period).
To promote better relations with Latin America through his "Alliance For Progress," President and Mrs. Kennedy visited Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia. Starting at Puerto Rico,on December 15, 1961, a sign is seen bearing the President's image and reading 'Welcome" in Spanich. Next in a motorcade through a crowded street, a man stands in an open car throwing confetti, while President John F. Kennedy (JFK) follows in another open car, accompanied by Governor Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico. In change of scene (and country) on December 16th, JFK stands at a microphone in Venezuela, next to an interpreter making notes. He introduces his wife, as a Kennedy who doesn't need an interpreter, and asks her to say a few words. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy leaves her seat next to President Romulo Betancourt, and steps to the microphone, where she briefly addresses the gathering in Spanish. (Mrs. Betancourt occupies the seat next to JFK's empty one.) After Mrs. Kennedy's brief remarks, those in the gathering applaud, and President Kennedy appears delighted.
Pedro Albizu Campos and other leaders of the Nationalist Party are arrested by the police. People in the streets. The terrorists are put in a vehicle. Gun cartridges on the ground. People look at bullet holes in a door. A picture of Pedro Albizu Campos on a wall. A broken door. Seized pistols and bullets are displayed.