Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, speaks. Brief shot of dramatization of Dred Scott in court room. African American students inside a school bus. Closeup shots of white hands holding chains, a brick, and a bat. Thurgood Marshall notes, "What is striking to me is the importance of law in determining the condition of the African American...I submit the history of the African American in this country demonstrates the importance of getting rid of hostile laws and seeking the security of new friendly laws, federal, state, and local."
Close up view of NASA engineer. NASA engineer peers through a periscope. A row of arclights ignite to light Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14. View of Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 14, the launch site of Friendship 7 spacecraft. NASA engineers watch the launch from outside. Closeup of zipper on space suit closed after pressure suit fabric tucked inside. American astronaut John Glenn puts on his space helmet. View of scientist looking down as he helps John Glenn with his helmet. Scientist smokes a pipe. Scientist adjusts John Glenn’s spacesuit gloves. Scientist ties John Glenn’s glove laces. John Glenn closes his fist to make sure the gloves were securely tied. The scientist smiles. John Glenn, in his helmet, smiles back. John Glenn prepares for insertion by getting into his capsule couch mold.
A United States military jeep drives onto a military base, waved through by MP at security gate. United States soldiers stretching together in a field with Quonset huts in background as Jeep drives by. In a United States Army Criminal Investigation Division Command (CID) office, a soldier is led by two CID special agents, one woman and one man. The CID special agents talk to a receptionist. The receptionist hands over paperwork to the male CID agent before they walk away with the handcuffed soldier, who is being charged with sexual assault. The two CID agents and the handcuffed soldier walks out of the CID field office. The soldier is put into the back seat of a car, which is a 1976 Chevrolet Impala.
United States Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes speaks during the 1946 Four-Power Paris Conference after World War 2. Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes reports on America’s commitment to secure peace through cooperation, saying “But we must not forget that if we fail to cooperate in a peace which is indivisible, we may again find that we will have to cooperate in a war which is worldwide. Whether we like it or not, we live in one world”
New Yorkers crowd the beach at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn NY. USA. Sunbathers in front of a building written with “Brighton Baths”. Two women, wearing black “Bathing dresses”, lying on the beach. People diving from a springboard and sliding from a water slide to a pool. Beachgoers taking a swim on the beach. Beachgoers swimming on choppy water. Two beachgoers securely hold on to a rope fence while waves crashing on the beach. A man waves his arms while sitting on another man’s shoulders before falling as waves crash on them and other rowdy beachgoers.
United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower's homecoming to his hometown of Abilene, Kansas. Crowds cheer to welcome Eisenhower at the train station. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie descend from a train. Crowds surround the Eisenhowers as they walk away from train. Dwight Eisenhower speaks in Abilene as he announces his campaign for President, saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen - I believe we can have peace with honor - reasonable security with national solvency. I believe in the future of the United States of America".
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