United States President John F Kennedy speaks on the Cold War nuclear test ban at the American University (4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016) in Washington DC. Graduates of the American University sit and clap. Professors sit on podium. President announces that the U.S. and Britain will send high level negotiators to Moscow in July for conference on a nuclear test ban. He says that the U.S. will discontinue nuclear tests unless some other country resumes them. “Confident and unafraid, we must labor on, not towards a strategy of annihilation, but towards a strategy of peace. Thanks.” President Kennedy concluded his speech.
Christmas Dinner in Korea with "A" Company of the 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. Members of the Company are in a "Chow line" in their mess tent, as food service soldiers fill their mess trays with Christmas dinner. U.S. Army Cpl Bill Cunningham interviews several of them and gives them opportunity to record Christmas messages to their loved ones at home. He asks them their names, and where they come from and their messages to their family. He interviews Major General Lionel McGarr, the Commanding General of the 7th Infantry Division. Soldiers identified include: PFC Lewis from Massachusetts, Sgt Wiggens from Cambridge Idaho, Cpl Lewis Wells from Indiana, and General McGarr.
Shows the National Marble Championship held at Ocean City in New Jersey, United States. Contestants from round the country take part. Match played on hexagonal rings. Cliff Seaver of Springfield, Massachusetts wins the title. The crowned champion poses for the camera
Electromagnetic Hazards Group conducts ball lightning tests under Project Tesla at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. Hangars at the Base. 'Project Tesla' written on a hangar. Pictures and tribute articles of Nikola Tesla and Robert Golka, and lightning ball pictures inside the hangar. Sign advertising a Physics Colloquium on Fusion Power led by Dr. Robert Taylor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.
The aftermath of the World War I. People of America celebrate the end of the war. Soldiers aboard a ship as they return back to America. Several scenes of America before war. A parade. Sketch depicts the era during the presidency of Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Soldiers on the battlefield fight and fire artillery. A parade in America. Sketches depict the willingness of Woodrow Wilson to join the league of nations and America's refusal to join it. Woman of America casts her vote. Sketches depict the financial status of the Americans and the inflation after the war. Steel workers on strike. The policeman go on a strike in Boston. Sketch depicts the unsafe cities of United States. Picture of John Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. The governor inspects new police force after the strike is called off. Sketches of the revolution in Russia. Papers shows the various communist revolutions. Several sketches show the formation of communist party in America. A bomb packet reads name of John Davison Rockefeller, an American industrialist. Explosion occurs in a wagon. People injured and loss of property due to explosion. Police arrests the suspects. Sketches of the various strikes and disorders in America. Sketches of the immigrants to the United States. An official checks the immigrants. The U.S. Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding addresses the people. Harding with Thomas Woodrow Wilson in a car . Sketches compare the two Presidents.
Court trials in the United States after World War I. Sketches: The Scopes trial. A science teacher John Thomas Scope. Picture of the evolution of man. Defense attorney, Clarence Seward Darrow supports the theory of evolution. Prosecutor, William Jennings Bryan bases his position on the Bible. A person with a poster. People gathered outside the court room for the trial. Sketches: the court room session. People protesting. In separate matter. Accused anarchists, Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian Americans, on trial in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of two pay-clerks. People protest against the trial. Policemen bring in the accused, to be tried. A huge crowd gathered to protest against the trial.