U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger talks with North Vietnamese delegations during Paris Peace talks in St. Non La Bretches in Yvelines, France. Dr. Kissinger, Xuan Thuy, Le Duc Tho and others discuss at the meeting table during final week of the negotiations. Duc Tho and Dr. Kissinger sign a document and exchange them. Signatures of Kissinger and Duc Tho on the document. The dignitaries stand and confer after signing the document. They walk out of the room and walk on sidewalks of road towards their cars.
Narrator Lee Marvin standing on a seashore. U.S. astronauts heading to their capsule for launch on mission to first man on the moon. Launch service structures falling away, as rocket launch is completing countdown in launch of Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 11 mission to the moon. View of Mission Control operations center during Apollo 11. Glimpse of the earth from the moon and sound of Neil Armstrong on radio to Houston Control Center, "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." View shifts to Houston Control Center. View of the Lunar Module, Eagle, descending and landing on the moon surface, July 20, 1969. Next, a view of Neil Armstrong descending ladder from the Lunar lander and taking the first step onto the moon by a human, and then moving about on the lunar surface, on July 21, 1969. View of seashore, again, where birds are walking on the wet sand. Flock of birds flying above breaking surf. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. A road being built in rugged wilderness. View of the Panama Canal. Aerial view from helicopter flying very close to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Various views of sunset. Stoplight turns green in evening. An elderly woman, driving a gray convertible car with the top down, checks the stoplight. The woman drives ahead after the stoplight turns green. Yellow 1969 Ford Mustang GT pulls up. The convertible car and the 1969 Mustang GT drive in the night. Woman parks her car in her driveway. Woman taking groceries from car and carrying them to the front door of her house at night and opening front door. Ruffles potato chips bag seen in groceries. 1969 Mustang GT headlights turning off at night Elderly woman entering house interior at night carrying bag of groceries. Elderly woman going out of her house front door at night. outside to her driveway, calling for her cat to come inside. Elderly woman at night calling "Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, from her driveway. Woman going inside her house at night. Woman taking off her jacket in house. Elderly woman shocked at seeing strange man in her house, a would-be rapist.. The man says “You forgot your paper” as he extends rolled newspaper in hand and closes house door.
The December 1, 1969 Draft Lottery for the year 1970 is held at the United States Selective Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. The draft lottery is led by General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. The ceremony begins with a benediction, and then an official pours slips of paper containing birth dates into a glass bowl. Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York draws the first birth date. He declares the date, September 14, and another man pastes the birth date next to a number on a board. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee draw additional birth dates and the board is filled out with the draft sequence.
Former U.S. war correspondents in Normandy, France to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of France during World War II. Correspondents outside a cafe near Normandy as they prepare to leave a luncheon. Retired General J. Lawton Collins is escorted by a uniformed U.S. Army officer to a waiting car. View of the Normandy coastline from a moving car. American flag on the bonnet of a car as it drives along the road. Graves at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Wife of a correspondent walks amidst graves at the cemetery. Grave of Wesley J. Rubenstein with a Star of David Jewish headstone. An F-4E Phantom aircraft in flight overhead. American and French flags hoisted at the cemetery. Correspondents tour the cemetery. View of a plaque ad time capsule unveiled by the correspondents and presented that day. It says, "In memory of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and the forces under his command, this sealed capsule containing news reports of the June 6, 1944 Normandy Landings is placed here - by the newsmen who were there. June 6, 1969." A man with a baby tied to his back. Correspondents speak during the ceremony. A photographer clicks pictures.
Explosion of an unknown/unidentified atomic bomb or nuclear bomb device during a nuclear weapon test. Bright flash illuminates clouds with orange and red. Ball of fire erupting upward in night sky. Entire sky is illuminated. Explosion fading and sky growing darker around orange and red area at center of explosion. Part of a 1969 U.S. Air Force film reel, but the year and location of the test is unknown.