Alien enemy detention facility in Crystal City, Texas. The facility is for relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans during World War 2. A guard opens a door. Mail truck comes in. Mail bags are unloaded from truck. Mail is delivered to internal security office. In the office, mail is examined by Japanese, German and Spanish specialists in the center.
Midway-class aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Atlantic Ocean during Operation Long Step. A pilot steps into a U.S. Navy F2H-2P Banshee and his airplane captain assists him with harness and strap. The pilot sits in readiness prior to launch while his airplane captain cleans the windshield. Jets on the flight deck being readied for launch. An airplane guard destroyer in the background. Silhouette: Essex-class aircraft carrie USS Leyte, heavy cruiser USS Columbus and escorting destroyers in formation. A U.S. Navy AJ-1 (Savage) aircraft lands aboard USS FDR. The Savage aircraft spotted forward. A rocket cart loaded with 5" rockets being wheeled aft. Ordnance men secure 5" rockets under wings of Banshees. A large water spout beyond a destroyer escort during the operations. Island structure of USS FDR. F2H-2 Banshee aircraft from USS Roosevelt flying in formation past the ship. A F2H-2 landing aboard, passes the island forward to the elevator.
New techniques in aerial torpedo attack, United States. An aircraft in flight over a sea. The aircraft releases torpedo in water. Torpedo moves. Men haul trolley loaded with the torpedo. The shroud ring or ring tail is in conjunction with the drag ring on nose of the torpedo. Using ring tail and drag ring with wooden stabilizer results in successful test drops. A man secures the stabilizer to ring tail with wooden dowels. The man covers the torpedo with a drag ring which helps to stabilize the torpedo during air travel, and seals the ring. The man adjusts the water trip delay valve which prevents the torpedo from burning up during long travels. Depth setting is done. (World War II period).
United States Air Force personnel work at Cape Canaveral,Florida. Two non commissioned officers (NCO) close and secure cover on fifth level of gantry.
Officials and visitors seen in audience, during meeting of United Nations Security Council, at Lake Success, New York (During timeframe that large UN General Assembly had been meeting at Flushing Meadows, New York.) Camera men record event from booth above meeting hall. Close up view of camera man operating motion picture camera in recording booth. Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union sits next to Polish delegate, Ludwik Rajchman. Press photographers take pictures of people in the audience, including two fashionable women in 1940s fashions including fur coats. Joao Carlos Muniz, of Brazil, is seen with bandages on his face. He chats with Australian delegate, Herbert Vere Evatt. USA delegate, Edward Stettinius is seen, next to Sir Alexander Cadogan of the United Kingdom.
The first Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate in Chicago, Illinois. Charles Warren from Mutual News asks Democratic candidate Senator John F Kennedy about the threats of Communism to the national security of the United States. Kennedy states that matter of Communism should be given great care and attention. He states that the citizens should support the laws passed by the United States and they should sustain the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in its efforts. He further states that the Americans can meet any internal threat but the major threat is external. Republican candidate U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon presents his views and states that he agrees with Senator Kennedy's appraisal generally in this respect. He talks about the Cold War. He states that they could also fight Communism at home by moving against those various injustices which exist in their society which the Communists feed upon.
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