Aviator Charles Lindbergh after his trans-Atlantic flight in Paris, France. French Marshall Ferdinand Foch congratulates Lindbergh and greets U.S. Ambassador to france Myron Herrick. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand receives Lindbergh at the Foreign Office. Briand congratulates Lindbergh as Herrick looks on. Lindbergh poses for a picture with President of French Chamber of deputies Ferdinand Buisson. The President's colleagues around the two men.
U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick with aviator Charles Lindbergh after Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight to Paris. Herrick with Lindbergh outside a building. Herrick addresses the citizens of Paris. Lindbergh with President Gaston Doumergue and Herrick after receiving The Cross of the Legion of Honor at the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France). A large crowd gathered as Herrick and Lindbergh arrive to meet Charles Nungesser's mother. Policemen control the crowd. A tram amidst the throng.
Aviator Charles Lindberg in Paris after his trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh honored at a dinner attended by the distinguished men of France. The guests seated at a table. Lindbergh's plane 'Spirit of St Louis' parked in the background. Guests including French President Gaston Doumergue. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick bids farewell to Lindbergh. Men prepare his plane for the flight. A large crowd looks on as his plane taxiing at Le Bourget aerodrome (Paris-Le Bourget Airport, Rue de Prague, Zone Aviateurs, Le Bourget, F-93350). The Spirit of St. Louis takes off for Brussels, Belgium.
Soldiers in front of the Presidential motorcade in Paris, France. President John F Kennedy with French President Charles De Gaulle in a car. President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy with other dignitaries. President Kennedy addresses an audience, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Ambassador Herve Alphand, Ambassador Sonnet, Ambassador James M. Gavin, and Mr. Redmond at Palais Chaillot (1 Pl. du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, 75016 Paris, France). “Mr. Secretary of State, Ambassador Alphand, Ambassador Sonnet, Ambassador Gavin, M. Redmond, ladies and gentlemen: I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.” President Kennedy said during the introduction of his speech.
Highway sign reads M 16, Dunkerque. German Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers fly low and drop bombs. Offshore, a flotilla of warships and civilian ships and boats approaches. British spitfire fighters engage German warplanes. Gun camera footage of dogfights. Allied troops boarding boats while being bombed. Rescued French and British soldiers on decks of ships. View of destruction at the Dunkirk shore. Rescued troops disembarking in England. Prime Minister Winston Churchill reviews group of ordinary British citizens who participated in the evacuation and shakes hands with naval officers. Generals of the French High Command expressing dismay. Map shows battlefront. Parisians getting newspapers and French parents and families evacuate French children South for safety. Women are seen kissing their children goodbye as they load onto buses to be evacuated to safety. Anguished women wave as their children depart. Change of scene to sandbagged French defensive positions in Paris. American intelligence officer, using animated map,describes German sweep of France. Benito Mussolini with son-in-law, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Italian motorcycle troops and infantry enter France. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt condemning the Italian action. Mussolini accompanied by Italian officers, struts along a street as Italian troops watch from sidewalk. He reviews a contingent of youth in uniforms that look like Alpini.
Train arrives at railroad station in Paris, France. French President Raymond Poincaré, Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon, Robert Lansing, United States Ambassador to France Ambassador William Graves Sharp, and Gen. Pierre Berdoulat greet United States President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Edith Wilson. VIPs get into the car and leave.
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