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Story of Cuban missile crisis in the month of October.

Documentary "One Week in October." Aerial views of Russian missiles in Cuba. Columbus day parade with marching bands, Boy Scouts, troops. Brief excerpt from 1962 World Series Baseball game with New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry delivering to Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, who hits a ball to the deep left corner that is caught. March of Dimes annual poster girl. Jackie Kennedy with children of foreign diplomats. Fireworks in Uganda celebrating its independence. View of Vatican Palace and a candlelight vigil. President John Kennedy with Ahmed Ben Bella, Premier of Algeria. Ben Bella is then seen with Cuban leader Castro who receives him in Cuba. U.S. moon rocket launch. Scientists in America reviewing designs for fallout shelters during Cold War, and visiting banks, stores, and municipal buildings and garages to assess them for worthiness as bomb fallout shelters. Views of various types of fallout shelters. Food, water drums, medical and sanitation supplies bound for civic fallout shelters are seen rolling off of assembly lines and being boxed. Radiological monitoring equipment on an assembly line. A woman packages a geiger counter into a box. Then the fallout shelter supplies are seen transported by rail to defense department warehouses for distribution by local authorities to Community Fallout Shelters. View of moving train seen from above and from sideview. View of new fallout shelter signs being mounted at fallout shelters. Forklifts working at Naval Supply Center Oakland in California to arrange supplies for shelters. View of American Legion meeting where former President Harry Truman makes a speech. Former President Eisenhower gives a speech in Connecticut endorsing some candidates. Air Force helicopter flies overhead and then seen landing on White House lawn. Beaches of Cuba. Marches in Cuba. Historic view of soldiers marching beside monument to Battleship Maine in Havana. Crane atop monument as a wing is cut off; scenes of destruction of monument to Battleship Maine in Havana. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara marching into Havana in 1959 with cheering throngs after succeeding in revolt against Batista. Fidel Castro and Soviet leader Khrushchev greeting one another at United Nations in 1961. Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyin greeted by Castro and crowd at Havana airport in 1960. Trade agreement between Cuba and Havana signed. Soviet Russian cargo ships on way to Havana. Cuban refugees in small boats being rescued by U.S. Coast Guard. Views of military specialists examining films of aerial views of suspected missile installations in Cuba. U.S. military mobilization for possible war. Strategic Air Command begins dispersing aircraft to possible needed locations. B-52 Stratofortress aircraft takes off. Badge on plane: "Anywhere. Anytime." Destroyer USS Strong, DD-758, making way in heavy seas. An American Aircraft Carrier underway in the distance. Polaris submarine on surface. Officers of STRAC or Strategic Army Corps seen meeting after being assigned to the new command of U.S. Forces Atlantic. Alerted U.S Army units on training exercise to maintain combat readiness. American Army troops load into rear of transport plane . C-124 Globemaster taking off. Then a C-119 shortly after takeoff flying overhead. Then a MATS C-124 again is seen overhead. 1st Armored division tanks being loaded onto rail for transport from Fort Hood Texas to Fort Stewart Georgia.

Date: 1962
Duration: 11 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038963
President Ronald Reagan's political career leading to election as California Governor, in the election of 1966

Film opens showing a still photograph of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis when they appeared together in the 1957 film, "Hellcats of the Navy." Although they were married since 1952, She was billed as Nancy Davis in the film. View of the newly wed Reagans cutting their wedding cake in 1952. Best Man, William Holden and his wife, Ardis Ankerson (stage name Brenda Marshall) share the moment with them. Closeup of Reagan and his new wife. Still photograph of Ronald Reagan appearing in the television series, "Death Valley Days." Next he is seen in a chair on the set of the TV series,"General Electric Theater," which he hosted from 1953 until 1962. He also toured General Electric plants to talk about the benefits of the free enterprise system. He is seen seated sharing a meal and posing with women employees of General Electric. Film shifts in time to the year 1932, when Reagan was first eligible to vote. Camera focuses on men's feet and they shuffle on a line at a soup kitchen. Views of men receiving food and drink. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen, seated in an open car chatting with people surrounding it. Roosevelt sits in the midst of men playing guitars and banjos. On inauguration day, March 4, 1933, he and his Vice President Henry Wallace are seen in the back of an open car. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, sits just ahead of them. President Harry Truman being sworn in by Chief Justice of the United States Fred Vinson, January 20, 1949, for a second term as President. Views of the Republican National Convention in 1952 when the party chose Dwight D. Eisenhower as its candidate for President. He and his wife Mamie, at the podium together. Ronald Reagan addressing a large group. Supporters walking with Republican Presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, whom Reagan favored over Democrat John F. Kennedy in the 1960 national election. In 1962 Reagan officially became a Republican Party member, supported Barry Goldwater and their candidate for President at the Republican National Convention of 1964. Views of Goldwater at the convention and stepping from an airplane during his campaign. Still photo of Goldwater next to Reagan, and then of Reagan defending Goldwater in a nation-wide address. View of Reagan and wife Nancy, and son, Ronald, walking together across field at their ranch in California. They are surrounded by Republican Party leaders who ask him to run for Governor. He and Nancy laughing about it. Billboard advertising Reagan for Governor, and views of him on the campaign trail. Views of Governor Edmond Brown surrounded by his supporters during the campaign. Reagan speaking during the campaign, and then seen with Nancy when he won the gubernatorial election.

Date: 1980, December 4
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044187
USA Vice President Lyndon Johnson visits construction site in Lebanon, rural road construction in Cyprus

United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) shakes hands with people in the Middle East holding American flags. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson’s motorcade drives through highways in the Middle East. Steamroller flattens gravel to create a new road in rural Cyprus. POV through car windshield driving down a rural road in Cyprus. Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Lebanese locals. A construction project in Lebanon. Lyndon B. Johnson visits construction site in Lebanon. Construction workers carry blocks of stone. Lyndon B. Johnson meets and shakes hands with Lebanese construction workers holding bundles of reinforcing bar.

Date: 1962, August 23
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078548
American Astronaut John Glenn launches on Mercury-Atlas 6 broadcast in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Face of John Glenn before launch of “Friendship 7”. Mercury-Atlas 6 officials talk on headset to begin countdown to launch the “Friendship 7”. A United States Marine Corp UH 34D helicopter flies. Mercury-Atlas 6 official wait for countdown. Mercury-Atlas 6 telemetry network officials at work at different stations all over world. Broadcast of Mercury Atlas launch. United States army man climbs into USA aircraft. NASA personnel operate Mercury-Atlas 6 controls. View of Mercury-Atlas 6 after service structure moved away. NASA official, wearing headphones, begins countdown. Face of John Glenn before launch, the voice of backup Mercury-Atlas 6 astronaut, Scott Carpenter, says “Godspeed John Glenn”. Launch of the Mercury-Atlas 6 spacecraft, “The Friendship 7”, with thrust. Backup clock is started as John Glenn calmly sits inside the spacecraft launching to space. The Mercury-Atlas 6 in space flight. People on the beach near Cape Canaveral cheer as the Mercury-Atlas 6 was successfully launched into space. View of the “Friendship 7” flying.

Date: 1962, February 20
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079061
United States President John F. Kennedy arrives at the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, United States, during Cuban crisis.

United States President John F. Kennedy arrives at the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, United States, during Cuban Missile Crisis. VC-137C No 26000 plane lands at the runway strip. President Kennedy followed by General Farris Bryant and U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor alight from the plane. The dignitaries greeted welcome by General Thomas Power, General Walter C. Sweeney and civilian dignitaries. President then shakes hands with officers in receiving line. President gets into a convertible and talks to other officers.

Date: 1962, November 26
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036864
United States team defeats Australian team in a sail boat race and wins the America's Cup Series, United States.

United States team defeats Australian team in a sail boat race and wins America's Cup Series, United States. Sail boats 'Weatherly' from U.S. and 'Gretel' from Australia compete hard in a windy weather in sea. Photographers and spectators in other boats watch the race. Ships, tugs and boats in the bay. Crew of 'Weatherly' on a boat after victory. Sailors enjoy their victory cheered by their families and spectators. Victorious team of sailors party after the victory.

Date: 1962, September 27
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037030