A tornado hits the Mid West states in the United States. Wreckage of houses in Iowa. Broken chairs and ruins in Wisconsin and Arkansas. Broken roofs and damaged houses in Illinois and Michigan. Ruins of damaged cars. A turned over car. A woman checks her ruined house hold in Indiana. A damaged piano in the house. River Mississippi flows over the danger level. The water flow touches rail tracks. Floods in a town in Minnesota. An officer puts luggage in a truck. People load ice blocks on the truck. Soil erosion on the paths due to ice. This event became known as the "Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak."
British monarchs King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit tje United States. King George lays a wreath at the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon. King and Queen go to Arlington Cemetery and pay tribute to the unknown soldier. People stand besides street and at roof top to cheer the Royal couple. Royal couple at the state luncheon, enjoy sightseeing and review troops . U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife along with the Royal couple at Hyde Park in New York.
Latter part of a documentary, Mission Mind Control, about administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) on persons in the United States to advance its research (Project MKUltra). Dr. Sidney Cohen, an LSD expert, talks about the studies done by the CIA on LSD, and other hallucinogens, and how persons serving as drug test subjects for the CIA became some of the main advocates for the use of LSD in the 1960s. Ex Chief Psychologist CIA, John Gittinger, speaks about people doing the research. The role of the CIA in unwillingly contributing to the illegal drug and drug abuse counter culture of the 1960s. View of hippies on streets under the influence of drugs. Hippies at a protest demonstration and police dragging a man away by force. Hippies holding hands dancing near a group of densely packed camping tents. Hippie family in an encampment and hippie families swimming in a lake, unclothed. Narrator states that an argument can be made that the CIA helped usher in the Age of Aquarius.
Race for United States President. Adlai Stevenson chosen as the Presidential candidate at Democratic Party convention at Chicago. Dwight D Eisenhower nominated as the Republican convention in San Francisco. People carry banners supporting Eisenhower at the convention. President Eisenhower with his wife. Eisenhower wins the election and a board reads 'By states Eisenhower wins in US' President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon after winning the elections.
Russian Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Maxim M. Litvinov, arrives in United States to resume diplomatic relations that have been suspended 16 years. The Cunard liner, Berengaria, arrives at the New York harbor,carrying Mr. Litvinov, who speaks to reporters. He greets the people, boards a train and leaves for Washington DC. U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, greets Litvinov in Washington DC. He leaves for the White House to meet President Roosevelt in the President's personal car. Policemen on motorbikes escort the motorcade to the White House.
Charles de Gaulle visits the United States. An aircraft lands at Washington National Airport in Washington DC. People at the airport. The leader of the Free French Forces General Charles de Gaulle disembarks from the aircraft. He is greeted by dignitaries. U.S. Army General George Marshall, U.S. Army Air Forces General Henry Arnold and U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King salute as the French National Anthem is sung. De Gulle also salutes and shakes hands with these and other dignitaries. He gets in a car and leaves for the White House. At the White House he is greeted by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, his daughter, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal. He visits Arlington National Cemetery to pay tribute at the Grave of Unknown Soldier. In Manhattan people line the streets and cheer as De Gaulle's car moves towards the New York City Hall. He addresses the people of the New York City from the top of the RCA Building. (World War II period).
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