The U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy outlines the peace corps program in Washington D.C., United States. The American students construct houses in Africa during an exchange program. A student puts cement on wall under construction using a shovel. Students stand on a bamboo scaffold and other work with shovels. Students pass bricks. A student washes his face. The students lined up for food. They sit and eat food using mess kit. Exteriors of the White House. The president John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the White house outlines the peace corps program. He speaks that the American peace corps will go abroad to work with the citizens of the newly developed countries. The peace corps will work in three major sectors : teaching,agriculture and health. The aim of the peace corps is to make a peaceful world.
Film about the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, during World War II. Scenes shortly after the attack: Partially sunken US Navy ship in Pearl Harbor. The flag of the United States in the foreground. A wrecked aircraft missing the rear of the airplane. A damaged hangar at an airfield. Type written notes of the U.S. War Department and the U.S. Secretory of Navy seeking information about the attack.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower suffers a heart attack during his holiday in Denver, Colorado. Dwight David Eisenhower stands. Exteriors of house of Elvira Mathilda Carlson-Doud where the President suffered the heart attack. A board outside the hospital where the President was rushed to reads' U.S. Army Fitzsimons Army Hospital Parking Area Straight ahead information desk located in lobby of main building'. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower and White House Press Secretary James Campbell Hagerty visit the president. Newsmen wait for information. Newsmen work on typewriters in news room. People enter a church to offer prayers. U.S. Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon talks to officials and calls for a meeting. A cameraman clicks pictures. Richard Nixon addresses a press conference.
Elements of three U.S. Marine Battalions land at Chu Lai in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese girl puts floral wreath on a marine. Viet girls walks on a beach. Signs on a beach read 'Down With Red Chinese Belligerents' ,'Long Live VN -US Friendship','Welcome U.S. Marines Corps'. A crane bogged down in water in front of a Landing Craft Utility (LCU). Marine walks near the shoreline
Annual matches of the National Rifle Association of America at Camp Perry in Ohio, United States. Lieutenant A. L. Lane poses and smiles. Trophies on a table in the background. Commanding General of the 8th Infantry Sergeant W. F. Bissenden stands and smiles with the trophy. U.S. Corporal R. A. McAllister,Co 6th Engineers poses with a rifle. The U.S. Cavalry team with the trophy. The U.S. infantry team poses. Chief of the infantry Major General R. H. Allen arrives and congratulates the team members. Chief of staff of the United States Army Major General Charles Pelot Summerall congratulates the captains of the teams.
Ceremony aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) as the Japanese surrender is signed in Tokyo Bay. Sailors stand in attention. U.S. Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. greets U.S. Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz. Sailors sit and watch the ceremony. General of the U.S. Army Douglas MacArthur leads his party aboard and to their place. Uniform representatives of the Allied powers stand in attention. Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Mamoru Shigemitsu leads his party aboard and to their place. Douglas MacArthur opens the ceremony with a speech. Documents of surrender on table. General MacArthur,Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey leave. (World War II period).
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