Audio only. 'This I Believe' Radio Network Program hosted by Edward R Murrow. Essay on an English mathematician Fred Hoyle. He has taught in Saint John's College of Cambridge University and conducted series of lectures on nature of universe in past. He speaks about visiting church when First World War ended and receiving a sermon telling him to pray to God in thankfulness that the right side had won. But he realized in school that Germans claim the same. Every nation has its own rules of behavior. If a particular action happens to fit in with the rules of society, people describe it as a right or a moral or a just action. Fred Hoyle adds that he personally doesn't believe that the present world can be run successfully on moral principals. He further speaks that people that outgrows its natural resources becomes both a nuisance and a danger because an over-swollen society sooner or later will try to grab the resources that belong to someone else, which of course must lead to trouble and possibly to war. He says that we are so with self-satisfaction at our righteousness that we are failing to appreciate the really important issues.
Damage due to massive flood in March 1936 in Johnstown Pennsylvania, known as the Saint Patrick's Day Flood. People gather on the streets in the flood affected areas. The destroyed buildings in the area. Names visible on some shops and buildings including Hendler Hotel, Valley Drug Co., Exide, Alderman, Penn Traffic Co. The wrecked vehicles in the flooded street. People viewing the damage. The debris on the street. The streets submerged in water. Buildings along the sides of the streets. Mountains in the background. Men clearing rubble with shovels. People viewing debris while standing on the steps of a building. A stopped street car or trolley car with flood debris on top of it.
Pope Paul VI visits Istanbul and Ephesus Turkey. Officials gather at the Istanbul Airport. Pope Paul VI coming out of an aircraft Pan Am 707 Jet Clipper (Clipper Saint Paul). Officials greet Pope Paul VI. The Pope meets Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras. A man taking photographs. Soldiers standing in formation. Pope Paul VI passes by a military band playing music. Turkish Christians attend a mass in the ruins of Ephesus, three kilometers southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. Pope Paul VI addresses the people during a mass in House of the Virgin Mary Catholic shrine (Sultaniye, 35920 Selçuk/İzmir, Turkey) in Ephesus. Catholic churchgoers make the “Sign of the Cross” during mass.
Tourists visit Lenin's Tomb in Moscow, Russia. The Minin and Pozharsky Monument and Saint Basil's Cathedral. A large crowd of tourists gathered at Red Square. A man takes a photograph of girls posing in front of Lenin's Tomb entrance.
U.S. President Richard Nixon delivers a farewell address at the White House in Washington DC, United States following his resignation. White House staff and cabinet members listen to a speech made by President Nixon. Nixon delivers his farewell address. Behind him stand his daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her husband David Eisenhower. He requests the members of White House staff to serve the next President as they have served him with devotion and dedication. He speaks about his experience at the White House and compares it to other government houses around the world. Nixon thanks the cabinet and staff members who served him. He says that people who serve in U.S. government should be strong to make the United States a world leader. He says that the country needs good carpenters, farmers and businessmen. He speaks about his father Francis A. Nixon who was a streetcar motorman and then a farmer. Nixon speaks that his mother was a saint but there will be no books written about her.
Conditions in Budapest, Hungary during Soviet occupation. Women and Catholic nuns arrive at a church. Nuns (belonging to the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul) accompany a girl. Vendors sell newspapers along a street. A Soviet soldier buys a newspaper from a vendor. A man reads a Magyar Nap newspaper (“Hungarian Day” political daily). Hungarian friar with tonsure reads a newspaper. Civilians and a person on horse-drawn carriage read newspapers.