U.S. President John F Kennedy delivers American University Commencement Address in Washington DC. The speech addresses issues of university education, peace, war, nuclear arms and disarmament. The President highlights the need to examine American attitude towards peace as well as the Soviet Union. 10 June 1963.
U.S. President John F Kennedy delivers American University Commencement Address in Washington DC speaking about America and Soviet Union relationships. He raises questions about Nuclear war its consequences. Communist drive to impose their political and economic system on others is the primary cause of world tension. He points out that despite differences there are some common links between America and Soviet Union and they should conduct affairs in such a way that is acceptable to both. He emphasizes reexamining the American attitude towards the cold war. Also raises issues of strengthening the United Nations as an instrument of global security, direct line between Moscow and Washington DC, Geneva talks, outlawing of nuclear tests. He confirms that high level discussions will shortly begin in Moscow for Comprehensive Test ban treaty. 10 June 1963.
John F Kennedy delivering American University Commencement Address and raises issue of human rights over all the other issues. He is honored with Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law. 10 June 1963.
President John F Kennedy addresses viewers from the White House after his tour of Europe. He talks about his recent visit to European nations. July 1963.
During Cold War at a NATO airbase, siren for a Red Alert exercise sounds and flight personnel scramble and run from a building with sign, "Bomber Alert Assembly Area." View of crew jumping into a waiting station wagon and then arriving at airfield. A fighter aircraft is fueled. Two American USAF pilots seen in cockpit and view of a B-52 readying for takeoff. View of B-52 taking off from runway as seen from camera mounted low on aircraft behind front wheel. Front view of a line of approaching and taking off B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft. Narrator indicates that half the bomber planes, approximately 600, are on ground alert at all times. Narrator indicates that others are aloft at all times, fully armed with nuclear bombs in belly and missile on the wings. Side view of a B-52 in flight so armed. Aerial view of refueling operations. View of pilot in cockpit of B-52. View as the B-52 Stratofortress joins with a fuel tanker at 6 miles above the Arctic, and 100 thousand pounds of fuel is transferred at 400 miles per hour. 1963.
Film opens showing logo of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Glimpse of several U.S. warships, ostensibly disarmed after World War II, berthed together. View on deck of one, from under triple guns. Aircraft being destroyed in explosions after the war. A troop transport ship returning American servicemen back home at the end of World War 2. Views of the deck jammed with servicemen waving to loved ones who are waving back to them from a dock. Bernard Baruch giving a speech at the first session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, at Hunter College, New York In presenting a proposal for International control over the spread and development of nuclear weapons and technology, He begins: "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead." (The proposal was rejected by the Soviet Union.) View of the United Nations building in Manhattan, New York City. Delegates at a UN session in the building. Boys and girls in a typical U.S. school class room. Younger children being weighed and measured in school. The teacher smiling and watching as happy children leave the school building at the end of school day. Another view, from across the East River, of the UN building in New York, with other Manhattan skyscrapers and buildings behind it on a sunny day. Flags of the United Nations on display outside the UN building. Views of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. President Lyndon Johnson addressing a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963. Behind him are seated President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Carl Hayden, and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, John William McCormack. A submarine traveling on the surface of the water. An American B-52 Strategic bomber in flight. An American Atlas ICBM descending into a launch silo slowly. View of the missile as it goes down into silo and as silo cover slowly moves into place to cover nuclear missile. A sunset view over ocean water.