Funeral of Chinatown's Mayor Frank Moy in Chicago, Illinois. Solemn service for the dead leader in Chinese Christian Union Church. The coffin of the mayor covered with flowers being brought out of the church. A car with the coffin moves as people walk along. The funeral passes down South Wentworth Avenue. Photograph of mayor carried during the funeral procession. People walk with wreaths. People lined up along the road.
Flood in Midwest United States. Rain brings heavy flood damage. Five Mid Western States ravaged by floods. Buildings surrounded with flood water. Flooded areas of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. Water touches surface of a bridge as a man looks on. Ground flooded with water as people look on.
Full-scale thermonuclear test of ultracold liquid deuterium, codenamed Ivy MIKE at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok). (Left to right) Chief engineering and firing commander, Stan Burris -- later the leader of the Strategic Ballistic Missile development, including Polaris and later editions; retired as CEO of Rockwell Aerospace -- military firing and security commander, Colonel Richard Lunger, and ultracold refrigeration engineering commander for thermonuclear liquid fuel state monitoring, Robert Gibney. The intense nuclear radiation ignited the atmosphere around the device, creating a fireball 4.2 miles across. A remote firing control was created, using a televison tower beam signal to safely trigger the detonation from the USS Estes, approximately 35 miles south/southeast of the detonation. White hot device remnant specks are visible throughout the surface of the fireball. Shockwave from Operation Ivy Mike explosion is seen spreading across the water, then a white mushroom cloud spreading above. View of crew on ship deck observing blast. Device yield: 10.4 megatons.
An awareness film about Syphilis by United States Public Health Service, United States. Film titled 'Three countries against Syphilis'. Map of Georgia. Scenes of areas in coastal Georgia. Atlantic ocean waves breaking on shores south of Savannah, Georgia. View of the old slave hospital building on the grounds of Retreat Plantation in Glynn County, Georgia. Wide panning view of the Sidney Lanier Oak Tree in the marshes of Glynn (Lanier's Oak in Brunswick, Georgia). Fisherman waits on docks and watches fishing boat come in at Brunswick, Georgia. Line of fishing boats at docks. View inside fishery and cannery operations, with rows of women seated in front of conveyor holding shrimp or crab. Filling cans, women use mallets to pound open crab claws and add crab meat to canning operations. Wide view of a large wood pulp mill, with many logs waiting in exterior yard, and smoke coming from plant factory. An industrial plant in Brunswick Georgia is shown where workers distill pine oil and other wood by-products. A man is seen in a production factory pulling wood veneer off of a press for us in wooden boxes. At a syphilis control clinic, a medical technigican takes a blood sample from an African American man. Doctor takes sample at a modern clinic. Doctor puts Neoarsphenamine drug on shelf of dispensary. White doctor or medical technician draws blood from a white patient. African American doctor or medical technician draws blood from an African American man. A free health department clinic is seen where nurses work with multiple patients at one time. African American boys and girls are seen in a school yard. The children run and play outside. View inside health clinic at St. Simons Island Georgia, with nurses and doctors treating patients. A rural doctor treating a man at a home clinic. View deep in a pine forest of working men operating a sawmill to cut Pine logs. Workers at a turpentine still perform tasks to produce turpentine. Mobile health clinic seen traveling via bus on roads in woods. Map shows Georgia, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden, areas covered by mobile clinics. Women walk towards a mobile clinic for an examination. Men loaded on an ox cart. Old man walks towards the clinic. School bus brings patients. The medical vans consist of electric sterilizers, refrigerators, fans and lights. A nurse immunizes a African American boy against Typhoid fever. A nurse takes blood samples for laboratory tests. A doctor examines a male patient.
The Altai mountains in the Central Asia region of Gorno-Altaysk (or Gorno Altai, or Gorny Altai or Altay) in the south Siberian Soviet Altai Republic (convergence of Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan). The cattle graze on the mountains. A truck moves along a mountain road. Men and women walk through forest. People in canoes on a lake. People at a resort lodge near the lake. Gardens and flowers. Exterior views of the large resort lodge building and people walking on the grounds. A group in the lodge listens to a speaker as he delivers a lecture at a resort. Some of the men present wear Soviet military uniforms.
A documentary depicts research and administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the late 1950s and into the 1960s (part of project MKUltra). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. View of a part time chemist for the CIA, Dr. James Moore, who narrator says duped amateur mycologist and mushroom science enthusiast R. Gordon Wasson into providing information that led to the development of LSD. Mr. R. Gordon Wasson is asked about a magic mushroom leading to the drug psilocybin. He talks about how they found the mushroom in Mexico and ingested it as administered by a local shaman or magical priestess, Maria Sabina, in a Mazatec mushroom ritual. Wasson describes his own experience of what it was like to be under the influence of psilocybin. He describes visions and his sensory experience. Narrator relates how Dr. Moore was instructed by the CIA to get close to Mr. Wasson and obtain the magic mushrooms on a trip to Mexico, and that internal memos revealed plans to derive a drug from the mushrooms that would remain an agency secret. Dr. Moore discusses his work in helping the CIA to produce a new drug. Anonymous speaker relates information from CIA operative of plans by the CIA to test the drug on unwitting American citizens. People drinking and sitting at a bar. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, tells about discussions with Mr. George White. Scenes with swirling colors and lights meant to simulate the experience of someone taking LSD drug. CIA operative says that George White helped the CIA locate unwitting persons on which to test the drugs, including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. Traffic on city streets. Narrator states that Mr. White set up safe houses for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and night clubs. Exterior neon sign of Plantation Inn Motel in San Francisco, another safe house. View of an apartment building atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, with a view of San Francisco Bay from the safe house apartment. Former CIA official relates how they used the safe houses to administer drugs to prostitutes and determine if the drug could be useful in getting people such as prostitution customers to reveal secrets. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Views of a college campus green. Narrator states that millions of dollars were spent on LSD research at universities throughout the United States. Narrator states that word spread on college campuses about the drug, and ushered in the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. Dr. Timothy Leary is interviewed and states that he gives the CIA credit for launching the consciousness movement and counter-culture events of the 1960s. Scenes of Dr. Leary in 1967, depicting him while using the drug. Dr. Leary states that the CIA funded and encouraged use of the drug by hundreds of psychologists to advance research and understanding of it, and that psychologists found it to be an intelligence enhancing and consciousness raising experience.
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