Track and field running race at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy. Participants run on the stadium track while crowd cheers for them. Vladimir Kuts of Russia wins the 5000 meter race in world record time.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. Officials arrive for the conference. A sedan arrives at the conference building. U.S. Army officers enter the building. Other cars arrive and navy representatives enter the building. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius.
The Yalta Conference in Crimea, Russia during World War II. A diagram with a sign on it that reads 'Traffic diagram effective 1800 hrs'. The diagram for traffic movement during the Yalta conference.
German aggression during World War II. Animated map shows troop movement and German occupied territories before the attack on Russia. Animation depicts German invasion of Norway and Denmark.
Camp for Russian prisoners in Plattling, Germany soon after World War II. Russian prisoners being placed in line by a U.S. soldiers. Prisoners walk along a field and being lined up. Prisoners carry their meager possessions. Line of U.S. trucks. Russian and U.S. soldiers on guard. Line of Russian prisoners being marched to trucks for return to Russia. Prisoners getting into a truck guarded by rifle carrying U.S. soldiers. Truck pulls off. Trucks drive up to a train. Prisoners being searched for knives or weapons of any kind. Historical record accompanying the footage indicates that these Russian prisoners were former Russian soldiers, captured by the Germans, and that some of them then joined and fought for Germany.
U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexey Kosigin for the Glassboro Summit Conference in Glassboro, New Jersey. President Johnson with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara wait for Kosygin at the Hollybush Mansion. The Soviet Premier arrives for the first summit talks. He is accompanied by the Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Dpbrynin. The U.S. and Soviet officials greet each other. The press present at the event. Photographers and cameramen record the proceedings. The officials and their translators and aides proceed for the talks. Kosygin on a sight seeing trip to the Niagara Falls between the two talks. The Premier and his aides in raincoats view the Falls from a boat called 'Maid of the Mist'. He waves to the people around. Police guards control a large crowd and the press gathered at the venue. President Johnson, First Lady Claudia Johnson and daughter Lynda greet Premier Kosygin and his daughter Ludmilla as they arrive. Cameramen and photographers record the proceedings. The Soviet Premier waves to the crowds. President Johnson, Kosygin and other officials enter the building.
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