U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits South Vietnam. Vietnamese Guard of Honor at an airport as a Military Air Transport C-121, Constelletion airplane lands. Vice-President Richard Nixon and his wife Patricia emerge from the airplane and are greeted by Vietnamese officials and Vietnamese girls with flowers. Vietnamese officials in white suits salute. Nixon in front of a USIS microphone. People assembled with banners. Nixon on a walkabout with civilians receives flowers. A motorcade with outriders arrives at a government building. Vietnamese officials stand and salute on the steps of the building. Interiors of the building show Nixon seated on a small platform listening to a speech by a Vietnamese official.
French (French Far East Expeditionary Corps) and Vietnamese forces attack the Vietminh in Vietnam, French Indochina. Bombarding and firing on the field. Wrecked and burning vehicles on the field. Soldiers move forward for attack. Soldiers fire rifles. A soldier fires with a machine gun (likely a M2 Browning). Bomber planes dropping bombs over a field. A tank fires at a hill. Smoke arises due to bombarding. Soldiers at a burning village.
A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry LeSueur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to South Vietnam and the need to protect it against Communism.
Unrest in Berlin, East Germany. A large crowd gathers to demonstrate against East German government. A banner carried by some demonstrators calls for free elections. Armed Stasi watch the demonstrators. Demonstrators burn banners and posters and damage public property. People stands on roofs of houses and watch the demonstrations. Armed East German police and some Soviet soldiers watch the demonstrators from their headquarters. Demonstrators tear up and burn signs and start a bonfire. East German Stasi reinforce the checkpoint between the Soviet and American sectors of Berlin. A uniformed Berlin police officer, wearing traditional hat, assists a person who was manhandled by the mob. A building set afire by the demonstrators. View from West Berlin of mob in East Berlin. Sign reads: "You are leaving the American Sector."
British Royal Navy de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft makes an arrested landing on the short angled deck of the American Aircraft Carrier, USS Antietam (CVA-36). Once the arresting gear is removed, a large group of sailors push on the wings of the aircraft to move it backwards into position for takeoff. The jet maneuvers slightly on the deck, then the pilot sets its engine to max power holding brakes and then releases them to begin a takeoff roll.
Newsreel clip on the Braves, Milwaukee's first Major League Baseball team, arriving in town for the first time. Girls in theme sweaters hold theme bags to welcome the team. Club owner Lou Perini and Mayor Frank Zeidler wait for the team's arrival. Men lay out a red carpet for the team. Men, women, and children wait to receive and welcome the players. The team arrives at the Union Station. Team manager Charlie Grimm and the players get off the train. A large crowd gathered to witness the event. Players in convertibles ride through city streets crammed with tens of thousands of people. Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Braves Drive for the day) flanked by people on either side. Players, in civilian clothes, wave to the crowds. (Note: the Braves had just moved from Boston. They would stay in Milwaukee only 13 years before moving to Atlanta.)