Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps during an interview at Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He answers questions related to Presidential election of 1964. He accepts his name being mentioned as a Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate but says that the final decision will be taken at the party convention. He says that Senator Goldwater does not have great chances of winning against President Johnson because of the latter's popularity.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) soldiers assembled for evacuation after Operation Lam Son 719 in Laos during the Vietnam War. South Vietnamese soldiers on a hill top near Route 9. U.S. soldiers signal U.S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopters for landing. South Vietnamese soldiers hold onto their helmets and board waiting choppers under direction of ARVN officers. U.S. Army crew members assist them in boarding. A Vietnamese officer supervises as a line of soldiers moves along to board the helicopters. Military vehicles at the camp. U.S. soldiers talk to Vietnamese soldiers. ARVN soldiers seated in the UH-1s. U.S. soldiers in protective goggles around the helicopters with rotor blades spinning. Soldiers seated in helicopters as they take off. A military ambulance in the background. A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter in flight. A UH-1 on ground. Military jeeps approach the helicopter. The ambulance driven away. An air ambulance helicopter lands on the field. A soldier checks the rotor blades atop the helicopter. U.S. soldiers stand around. Aerial view of the area around Route 9. A convoy moves along Route 9. Tents and military vehicles at the camp. U.S. and ARVN soldiers around stationary choppers. Construction material and dug up patches.
Scene opens aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) as crews position several Douglas A-4 Skyhawk aircrafton steam catapults under the direction of a yellow shirt aircraft handling officer. Next, the aircraft are seen being launched. Camera follows one leaving the flight deck and proceeding over the water. Closeup of deck crew working down under an aircraft as it moves into position for launch. View from above the flight deck shows two A-4 aircraft on catapults. Tail code AB on the closest one identifies it as belonging to Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1). Scene shifts to a catapult crew preparing an Vought F-8E Crusader aircraft for catapulting. Three crew work at the front and two at the back of the aircraft. They fasten the bridle cable. View of the aircraft being catapulted. Narrator identifies Kenneth Wilson, launch crew hold back man who is fastening the tension bar to the tail of the plane while men at the front are hooking up to the catapult shuttle. Closeup of the tension bar holding the aircraft back, while engines are set at full power. View of catapult control panel, as it is fired and the holdback bar releases. Next an F-8 of Squadron VF-11 taxis into position, and is likewise prepared for catapulting. An F-8E viewed from the front as it launches. Cables sliding back across the deck after launch where green shirts viewed through steam rising from catapults attend to them. View from cockpit of an aircraft taxiing onto the catapult. An F-8E taxied into position and readied to launch. View of pilot in cockpit. deck crew members signaling. Aircraft is launched. An E-1B propeller-driven early warning aircraft of Squadron VAW-12 taxis onto a catapult. Views of the green shirts setting its cables for catapulting. Remainder of film is a montage of catapulting from viewpoint of green shirts setting cables and aircraft launching. At end, the launches are completed (24 planes in 12 minutes) and the deck crews get a well-earned respite.
U.S. Navy pilot, Lieutenant Junior Grade, Everett Alvarez, Jr., in flight suit and helmet, being taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. View of his military identification card. Lt Avarez being interrogated by North Vietnamese officers. Destruction by U.S. air strikes on North Vietnam. Wreckage of buildings. Remains of buildings. Lt Alvarez's clothing and survival gear, including his dog tags and keys. The retrieved wreckage of his A-4D aircraft is on display and being explained to North Vietnamese in a public gathering.
View of entrance to the Officers' Club at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC. Sign reads "Officers' Open Mess." Several retired officers in civilian clothes emerge following a luncheon meeting. Scenes of the club, including a staff car parking at the curb; several women exiting; closeup of sign at doorway; and uniformed officers entering. View of the main gate entrance, from on the base, with cars entering and leaving. Closeup of the sign, reading "United States Air Force, Bolling Air Force Base."
Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri arrives in Egypt for the Second meeting of Non-Aligned Nations. Lal Bahadur Shastri, who succeeded Nehru, arrives by a plane in Cairo and is greeted by the President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. They review the honor guards. Flags of 47 Non-Aligned Nations fly from tall flag poles. Shastri and Nasser enter a building and attend the Second meeting of Non-Aligned Nations.