U.S. Army Air Corps and Army Ground Forces at Newport News in Virginia. Trucks cross a bridge. U.S. Army Air Corps Northrop A-17A aircraft fly low over water laying smoke screen. Smoke screen formed. Four A-17 aircraft fly over bridge.
People mourn at death of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nicholas Longworth IV in Washington DC. The U.S. Capitol Building. Highlights of Nicholas Longworth IV's life show him at public function with wife Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth. He is with aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He addresses the U.S. House of Representatives as the speaker.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson assumes office in the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol. He asks for the help of all Americans, especially in the early weeks when the burden is high as he assumes office. The congressmen clap. The president meets United States Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara. United States Secretary of State David Dean Rusk briefs President Johnson. He meets with the Joint Chiefs of staff. People gather at the former U.S. President John F. Kennedy's grave. He visits the President's grave. The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery. He poses with the First Lady Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson, children Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson Turpin for a family portrait.
Burial of Wöbbelin concentration camp victims in Ludwigslust, Germany during World War 2. German civilians bury dead of Wobbelin concentration camp, five days after the camp was liberated by Allied forces of the U.S. Army 8th Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division. Bodies laid out near graves. A large wooden cross at the back of each grave. A jeep driven on a road. German civilians near dead bodies. A large group of U.S. and German officers stand at attention during burial ceremonies. German civilians speaks into a microphone.
A ceremony for New Savings Bond program of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Richland, Washington. Soldiers march in a parade. People stand on a road side and clap. Miss Richland in a car at the parade. She waves to people and children wave back. Native American Indians dressed in regalia ride in cars during the parade. Officials show a flag that reads 'US Treasury, Richland'. People watch as officials raise the flag. Aircraft fly in formation. The flag on a flagpole. Trees in the background.
A film titled 'Inside the Atom' about the structure of atom and the use of radioactive isotopes in the treatment of cancer in Canada. A board on a shore reads 'Picture Taking Prohibited'. Buses drive past a sign reading 'Atomic Energy Project'. Buses are stopped at the entrance of the plant and are checked by security police. Identity cards of men are checked by the security police. Workers enter the plant. A worker walks on the plant grounds carrying a piece of a radioactive metal suspended from a rod. A minute fragment of matter is checked under a microscope. Narrator describes prospect of atomic energy to introduce a new industrial revolution, contrasting with traditional work. Scenes of Chinese or other Asian laborers at an excavation site, moving rocks and boulder by cart and wheel barrow. Men sit atop a wooden frame rig with pedals, using man power to operate a water mill. View of coal miners at work digging in a coal mine and loading coal chunks onto a moving track.
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