This film takes a look at 1966 including events such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War and the Anti-War Movement as well as natural disasters and elections throughout the world. The film opens with combat scenes from the Vietnam War (:13). Protests in the streets of the US are seen (:15). In Vietnam, General Vo Nguygen Giap is pictured (:24) as Vietnamese citizens cheer (:27). This film was presented by United Press International (:30). The year began with a truce in Vietnam and a thirty-six-day cease fire (:55). President Johnson addresses the United States as actions resumed in northern Vietnam (1:14). The F4-E is pictured (1:28) of the US Air Force. Oil installations were targeted in Hanoi (1:41). 85 US airmen were captured (2:11). US POW’s are marched through streets pushed forward by bayonets (2:22). Operation Masher is depicted, fought in Binh Dinh in January of 1966 (3:11). This was the largest search and destroy mission of the war thus far. Wounded are dragged through shallow waters as fighting continued in the central highlands around Pleiku (4:09). A third battle is fought at the 17th Parallel (4:37). Anti-War Protests in the US continued (5:58) as marchers carry a banner reading ‘AD HOC Community Veterans for Peace in Vietnam’. Protestors David Reed, David O’Brien, David Benson and John Philips burn draft cards on the Boston Courthouse steps (6:28). Congress investigated the protests, leading to more civil unrest (6:59). Lawyers of the protestors are drug out by police (7:13). Buddhists in Vietnam protest the military government of Nguyen Cao Ky (7:17). Monks set themselves aflame in a final protest (8:20). Ky was re-elected in September (8:34). In Indonesia, students rioted against Communists (9:20). General Suharto is pictured (9:46) after replacing Sukarno (9:53). Mao and Lin Biao conducted a successful test of a nuclear missile in China (10:05). In January, the Indian Prime Minister; Lai Bahadur Shastri, signs a ceasefire to end the Pakistan War (10:28). Shastri died of a heart attack the following day. Madame Indira Gandi took his place (10:41). Argentinean General Ongonia (10:56) is pictured replacing the former president Illia (11:07). In the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch (11:22) was replaced by Joaquin Balaguer (11:24). Hendrik Verwoerd; South African Prime Minister accredited with beginning the Apartheid, was assassinated (11:32). He was replaced by Theophilus Danges. French President Charles de Gaulle (11:55) took a trip to Moscow. He is greeted by Russian Primer Kosygin (11:59). Harold Wilson wins the English election (12:22). German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (12:45) was replaced by the former Nazi Kurt Kiesinger (12:50). Generalissimo Franco of Spain follows (12:57). Israeli troops attack a Jordanian village in retaliation (13:07). Germany’s space program concluded in 1966 (13:43). German astronauts conduct a maneuver of docking two orbiting spacecrafts (14:37). After the space craft is nearly lost in space (15:10), it lands near the recovery zone. In August, Johnson gives away his daughter Lucy (15:25) to Patrick Nugent (15:36). Charles Whitman killed 14 at the University of Texas (15:44). Hurricane Inez killed 300 (16:19). The Arno River in Italy is filmed as it swells from Autumn storms (16:25). The streets of Florence flooded (16:27). The Fountain of Neptune follows (16:47). The 1966 Varto Earthquake in Turkey (16:51) is depicted. Twelve firemen were killed in the 23rd street fire in NYC in October (17:06). The Aberfan disaster (17:43) included the small towns of Wales and Aberfan as rains caused a catastrophic collapse of colliery soil in October. A schoolhouse was crushed by the sludge (17:51). Students whom perished were buried in a mass grave (18:17). James Meredith is pictured at the beginning of The March Against Fear in Tennessee bound for Mississippi (19:04). Meredith was shot by a white sniper after crossing state lines (19:22). MLK picked up while Meredith recuperated (19:39). Civil Rights activists were tear gassed (20:33). Meredith rejoins the march (20:56). Stokely Carmichael coined the slogan Black Power in a speech delivered at the White House (21:05). MLK headed to Chicago for the Open Housing Movement (21:19). The Hough Riots broke out in Cleveland (22:01). Riots broke out in Atlanta (22:14). Mayor Ivan Allen clamors to a cars roof to avoid protestors (22:18) in Atlanta. A Civil Rights rally in St. Louis becomes a riot (22:47). Bo Callaway and Lester Maddox; two segregationist candidates, tie in the election (23:11). Alabama Governor, another segregationist, George Wallace guided his wife Lurlene as his successor (23:23). The First African American elected to Senate was Edward Brooke of Massachusetts (23:39). Regan is captured at (23:50). Nelson Rockefeller won the re-election in New York (24:09). Anti-War protests shrouded President Johnson’s tour to seven nations in Asia (24:48). Anti-draft protests erupt in Australia (24:46). Johnson visited troops in Vietnam with General Westmoreland at his elbow (25:56).