Scenes from the maiden voyage of the Project Hope hospital ship "SS Hope" to Indonesia in October 1960. Brief view of stack on ship SS Hope (the former United States hospital ship USS Consolation, AH-15) with painted text "Project Hope" and "The People to People Health Foundation, Inc." visible on the stack. Interior views of various medical equipment aboard the ship, examination areas, and dental examination chairs. Man in a supply area works on a document. View on ship's deck. View from pier of the ship at harbor. Letters 'HOPE' on side of ship. Rapid brief scenes from a ceremony with Indonesian officials on the pier, and of Indonesian guests and officials touring the ship's facilities. Scenes of guests and staff departing the ship onto pier and being welcomed by officials as they shake hands. Sign "Angkatan Darat" on a gangway. Arrival ceremony for members of the crew. Indonesian officials speak and Dr. William Walsh speaks. Additional views of Indonesian guests and officials touring the ship and greeting nurses, doctors, and staff of the ship.
Scenes from the Democratic National Convention of 1960. People gathered outside the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. Delegates inside the convention hall carry banners in support of Lyndon Johnson. Others carry banners for John F. Kennedy. Governor Orville L. Freeman speaks at the podium and proposes Senator John F. Kennedy as the nominee, then Senator Eugene McCarthy puts forward Adlai Stevenson II for nominee. Eleanor Roosevelt also appears at the podium in support of Adlai Stevenson. The voting results are announced, and John F. Kennedy wins in a landslide. Kennedy delivers a speech thanking the delegates for their support and expressing hope that he will live up to their expectations as the Presidential election nears.
Senator Kennedy and Richard Nixon as Presidential candidates for 1960 elections. Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy addresses the press after conferring with Adlai Stevenson in Hyannisport, Massachusetts. He also meets Vice Presidential candidate Lyndon Johnson and they discuss about the election campaign. Republican candidate Richard Nixon and his running mate Henry Cabot Lodge discuss the campaigning strategy in Washington D.C. Nixon and Lodge sit as photographers take pictures.
Large crowd gather before arrival of Vice President Richard Nixon and the formal opening of the Republican National Convention of 1960 in Chicago, Illinois. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller disembarks from a plane and waves to the crowd. Narrator comments on Rockefeller's influence on Nixon in crafting the party platform. People holding banners of presidential campaign welcome Rockefeller. Sign: 'Nixon for President'. Parade for GOP (Grand Old Party) passes on a road with floats and cheering. Various floats and women on floats with banners of 'Nixon for President' in the parade. 'I'm for Nixon' written on the dress of a woman watching the parade.
The Four Power Paris Summit in Paris, France after the 1960 U-2 incident. Wreckage of a United States Air Force Lockheed U-2 spy airplane in Moscow, Soviet Union. A diagram of a U-2 aircraft. People look at photographs on a wall. A photograph of a man. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the exhibit with Soviet dignitaries. Mr. Khrushchev gives statements to journalists. A Russian aircraft carrying Mr. Khrushchev and Soviet dignitaries taxis in Paris. A United States Air Force aircraft carrying U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and U.S. dignitaries lands. President Eisenhower addresses people at the airport. A motorcade rolls through the streets. French soldiers at attention in review. Cars drive past them. Exterior of a building.
The Four Power Paris Summit in Paris, France after the 1960 U-2 reconnaissance aircraft incident. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with dignitaries. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower shakes hands with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan and French President Charles de Gaulle Mr. Khrushchev addresses a farewell press conference. He is accompanied by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko and Soviet Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky.