Views of Vienna, including St. Stephen's Cathedral; the Austrian Parliament building; the Vienna State Opera;Schobrunn Palace, and downtown street scenes of shops, buildings. trams, cars, and pedestrians. The U.S. Presidential 707 airplane arriving at Vienna Airport, Saturday, June 3, 1961. Wellwishers wave banners and flags from the observation deck of the airport. Austrian President Adolf Scharf and Chancellor, Alfons Gorbach, walk out on a red carpet, past a military honor guard, to greet the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Scene shifts to President Kennedy broadcasting a report, about his European trip, to the American people, on June 6,1961, He states that he went to Vienna to meet the Leader of the Soviet Union, Mr. Khrushchev. View of President Kennedy shaking hands with Khrushchev, in Vienna. Kennedy, Krushchev, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, with Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, and other officials on steps of meeting place. The two leaders shaking hands again, as photographers take pictures. Local citizens watching the historic event. Scene shifts back to President Kennedy delivering his post-trip report to the Nation. Scene shifts to the Soviet Embassy in Vienna, where Nikita Khrushchev stands outside and greets President Kennedy as his car arrives. Views of Kennedy and Khrushchev conversing inside the Soviet Embassy. Brief outdoor scenes and then view of Khrushchev escorting Kennedy as he leaves the Embassy, and he and Dean Rusk enter their car. Final scene reverts back to Kennedy's broadcast on June 6th.
Fidel Castro steps down plane during his arrival for the United Nations 15th General Assembly in New York. Castro's car stopped near a gate to greet a crowd of supporters cheering him. New York police huddle around the car and urge him to proceed on and not stop. Castro arriving by car in Harlem New York after transfer there from another hotel in midtown. Khrushchev meets Castro in the street in Harlem and they hug as police stand by for protection. View of United Nations building. The Cuban and Soviet contingents seen together greeting one another at the assembly hall of the United Nations. Castro goes to the stage to begin delivery of a record speech exceeding four hours. The chair is seen interrupting at one point in the interest of time. Castro addresses delegates. Castro boarding a plane supplied by the Soviet Union for his return to Cuba. Castro on stage surrounded by a crowd in Cuba. View of a lone Cuban farmer sweating as he works in the sun on a farm field.
President Harry S Truman arrives at the Joint Session of Congress in Washington DC. Members of the Congress clap. President Truman delivers State of the Union address before the reconvened Congress. He speaks about a disarmament strategy and the need for the Soviet Union to participate in arms reduction. Truman states that the world still walks in the shadow of another world war. He states that the nation's moral strength is most vital.
A large crowd gather to protest on May Day in New York City. Police on horses watch with vigilance. Signs seen in the anti-war, pro-socialist crowd include, 'A Months Vacation with Pay' , 'Join the Young Communist League' , 'Defend the Soviet Union !' , 'Not a Cent, Not a Gun, Not a Man for Imperialist Wars !' , 'Women Workers! Join the Communist Party' , and 'We are With Our Parents' A man addresses the gathered crowd from a podium. Next, a young teenage boy speaks from a podium and trys to work up the listening crowd.
UN General Assembly seen meeting in 1954 as it approves an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge II, and French ambassador, Henri Hoppenot, speaking. Finn Moe, of Norway, speaking. View of the city of Kjeller, Norway. Flags of Norway and the Netherlands at joint atomic laboratory. Scientists with various pieces of scientific equipment inside the facility. Indian ambassador, Krishna Menon, speaking at the United Nations. Atomic laboratory and a Government Teachers' Training College, in India. Indian scientists in a laboratory. Indian lecturer speaks to students. Brazil's Professor Ernesto Leme speaks at the UN. The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The University of Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Center for Physical Research. Clock tower of Brazil Central Station in Rio. Sutan Sjahrir,of Indonesia at the United Nations. An animated map shows nations interested in atomic energy. The UN Headquarters building on the East River in New York. A person looking through a microscope. Foreign scientists attending indoctrination courses at the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. Diplomats sign agreement between the U.S. and Philippines on July 27, 1955, for the Philippines to lease uranium for a research nuclear reactor, and to receive technical assistance. Views of Geneva Switzerland in August 1955, including street views with pedestrians, and tram or streetcar on city streets. Exterior of Palace of Nations, then interior view with atomic science conference in progress. Indian nuclear physicist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, presiding over conference of scientists and university representatives from 73 nations, including, inter alia, John Cockcroft, of Great Britain; Otto Hahn, of Germany; Willard Libby, of the U.S.A.; Vladimir Vexler of the Soviet Union; and Niels Bohr of Denmark. Views of exhibit hall at the conference, and displayed models of nuclear reactors, uranium ore refining exhibits, and accelerators. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower views swimming pool reactor, while visiting the exhibit hall. Site work and construction underway in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland for a research laboratory for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Sitework seen for a facility of Euratom in Europe (European Atomic Energy Community). View of early sitework in Manila for an Asian nuclear center in the Philippines under the Colombo plan, for training personnel in nuclear science and technology.
Signing of ratified version of the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States and Soviet Union. Treaty Room at White House in Washington DC. President John F Kennedy signs the ratified Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Senator Hubert H Humphrey and other senators in the background.
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