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Various U.S. Air Force missiles and intercepter aircraft of 1956

U.S. Airmen uncrate an AIM-4 Falcon heat-seeking guided air-to-air missile. Closeup as they remove it from its box. Next, an animated segment shows a fighter interceptor firing such a missile at a high flying bomber. it strikes and destroys the bomber. A Falcon missile on a test stand. It is launched for a short distance and then hits the ground. A brief animated segment illustrates an airborne missile being fired at another airplane, from a fighter aircraft. Glimpse of an Air Force aircraft dropping a parachute delayed bomb. A Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor aircraft parked on a ramp. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being launched from a test stand. An F-102 interceptor aircraft taking off and in flight. It fires a missile straight ahead. Another F-102 firing a missile in flight, and a target drone tumbling to the ground and exploding. Airmen drive a forklift truck up to a parked F-102 aircraft, and remove a crate containing a Hughes AIM-4 Falcon missile. They remove it and place it in a firing test stand. A suspended net target in the desert is destroyed by a missile passing through it. Air Force mechanics work on an F-102 aircraft. A MGM-1 Matador Cruise Missile being fired. It travels some distance before breaking up. View of Matador Cruise Missile in flight. A drone target aircraft being struck by a missile in flight, and falling to earth.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037534
President Eisenhower speaks at Press Conference in White House in 1956.

View of newsmen seated and cameramen at a press conference. President Eisenhower enters the conference room. Journalist asks him questions regarding violence resulting from "Segregation Issues" (racial segregation) as schools reopen after the summer in the United States, under desegregation orders. President replies how local governments need to enforce the laws including federal law, and that the United States of America is ready to help. Journalists writing in notepads. Close view of President speaking. President is asked what he would say to young people who are responsible for unrest and tension during desegregation. The President states that it is difficult through law and courts to change the hearts of people. He advises people to explore the issues, and that we need to "bring about a change in spirit, so that extremists on both sides do not defeat what we know to be a reasonable and logical conclusion of this whole affair, which is recognition of the equality of man." He says the south is full of people of good will, but that we only hear from others in the south who are full of prejudice and who resort to violence, and the same way on the other side with people who want to have the whole matter settled today. President Eisenhower says of desegregation, "this is a question of leading, and training, and teaching people and it takes some time."

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1956, September 11
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039059
Nuclear explosion: View of shot Fizeau, at Yucca Flats location of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County Nevada

United States nuclear testing footage. View of the fireball from the 19th full-scale atomic detonation of Operation Plumbbob, code named "Fizeau." The 11 kiloton shot, fired atop a 500 foot tower, as observed from "News Nob" at a distance of about seven miles.

Location: Nye County Nevada USA
Date: 1957, September 14
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046805
Las Vegas street scene, and destruction at Motel caused by a man driving into motel building in Las Vegas, Nevada.

View of traffic on street in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Hotels and motels along road including sign for "City Center Motel". Scene of destruction at the motel, where a man had comitted suicide by driving into the City Center Motel in Las Vegas, Nevada. 6 persons were killed and 12 injured in the ensuing explosion. View of the damaged City Center Motel building. Message " We accept credit cards. Relax in Comfort" written on sign outside the building.

Location: Las Vegas Nevada USA
Date: 1967, January 9
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043338
Marines using mine detectors during Project Desert Rock in Nevada.

Man with Geiger counter taking readings about a jeep during Project Desert Rock in Nevada. Marines using mine detectors. Mountains in background. Vehicles in cleared area. Scenes of Marines. Mountains in background. Looking into valley. Lake in valley, in Nevada. Large column of white smoke.

Location: Nevada United States USA
Date: 1952, April 26
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034509
Soldiers at Camp Desert Rock watch testing of nuclear weapon at Yucca Flats near Las Vegas, Nevada during Desert Rock exercises

Desert Rock Exercises (Desert Rock IV) underway for testing of nuclear weapon at Yucca Flats area of Nevada Proving Ground outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Test shot Dog. Squad tents pitched to form a bivouac area at Camp Desert Rock, south of Camp Mercury. Mountains in the background. Giant white cloud of smoke rises from behind the mountains due to detonation of nuclear weapon during Operation Tumbler-Snapper. This was shot "Dog," a 19 kiloton TX-7 device airdrop in Area 7. A mushroom cloud forms. Soldiers watch the smoke rising after the testing of the nuclear bomb device known as Dog.

Location: Las Vegas Nevada USA
Date: 1952, May 1
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059270
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