View of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas. Former student, Jefferson Thomas, one of the nine African American students who integrated the school in 1957, is revisiting the school. View of integrated student track and field team practicing.View of the front of the school. Flashback scenes of the "Little Rock Nine," black students trying to enter Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, during civil rights movement. Police officer keeping back jeering local students. Racial fighting breaks out among people watching the event, and police try to maintain order. African American students unable to enter school while white students enter and police stand by despite federal school integration orders. Scene returns to 1964 briefly and then back to September 27, 1957, when on orders from President Eisenhower, a company of U.S. Army soldiers marches up takes up positions at the school. They set up barricades, maintain order, and provide armed escort for the nine black students entering school. The nine students enter army station wagons and drive to school accompanied by soldiers in an army jeep.Views of people mingling around the school as U.S. Army soldiers stand amongst them.
A U.S. Air Force C-121 (Constellation) aircraft taxis in after landing. official greeting party awaits, including a woman holding a bouquet of flowers. A dignitary arrives and is greeted by officials and military officers.He reviews a military Honor Guard in formation holding rifles with fixed bayonets. The dignitary and officials pose, beside the U.S. Air Force aircraft, along with two women. One holds the bouquet of flowers received from the other upon arrival.
Allied forces entering Germany during World War 2. The German population is not welcoming. Rainy weather makes it difficult for armor and vehicles to move. U.S. soldier bailing water out of his trench. Troops slogging through mud with their mess kits. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting U.S. infantry at the front in the mud.
American troops take time out during advance into Germany during World War 2. Sign erected by American soldiers, in a field in Germany, reads: "Rhine Rodeo." What appears to be a sign for highway "112" is behind and an artillery piece sits in field in background. Two U.S. soldiers in top hats laugh as they watch others, who appear to be experienced cowboys, take turns in bronco busting and other rodeo events. Local German civilians and youth watch events from the side of the field. U.S. troops seen moving on further into Germany.
U.S. troops liberate American prisoners of war at German camp during World War 2. Lieutenant Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley, together with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a U.S. Major General, walk through a liberated German concentration camp, followed by numerous other officers. The grounds are strewn with bodies of emaciated dead prisoners. Some are stacked up like cordwood. Some dead are carried off. Survivors are given medical attention and placed in ambulances or trucks. German civilians plundering shops and warehouses, and carrying off goods on carts.German women fighting over goods. Old man sleeping in street.
U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft (Tail number 50-72649) arrives and parks on ramp at Grand Turk Auxiliary U.S. Air Force Base. Commander Shepard, who had just flown from Arguello, California, steps from the aircraft with his belongings. He is there to participate in the Mercury-Atlas 7 post-mission debriefings. He is met by Air force officers and Mercury project personnel.
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