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U.S. guests watch as dancers perform and musicians play at the Near East Relief orphanage in Zappeion Hall, Athens, Greece

Near East Relief orphanage, aiding Armenian, Greek, and other orphans, showing entertainment in gratitude to Americans, in Zappeion Exhibition Hall (Zappion Hall Leof. Vasilissis Olgas, Athina 105 57, Greece), Athens, Greece. Interiors of Zappeion Hall with tall white columns. Boys young and older dancing while wearing traditional Greek costumes. Young boys and some young women play guitar. Guests watch the performance.

Date: 1920
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053228
King Constantine II lights candles during the Orthodox Easter religious and civic ceremonies in Athens, Greece.

Orthodox Easter religious and civic ceremony in Athens, Greece. King Constantine II of Greece lighting candles during an Easter midnight mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation. Greek Orthordox Bishop presiding in the ceremony. King Constantine II prays for a return to parliamentary rule. Evzones troops (Greek elite palace guards) join the traditional egg cracking ceremony. King Constantine cracks eggs during the ceremony. An Evzone soldier salutes to the king after cracking eggs. Photographers take photographs.

Date: 1967, May 5
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073281
British forces liberate Greece from German occupation and Greek Prime Minister Papandreou during a ceremony, in World War II.

Allied forces liberate Greece from German occupation and civilians cheer for them, during World War II. British convoy of warships and boats reach the harbor of Athens. Commanders look at the harbor. British Army with Polish and Greek regular army soldiers march on roads towards Athens. Civilians cheer, hail, welcome them, raise posters and banners. Greek and British soldiers visit ancient Greek monuments. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou reviews honor guard of combined British, Greek and Polish forces. Greek civilians on roads and buildings hail Prime Minister Papandreou who pays homage to Greek soldiers and salutes them. Greek girls carry national flag to a monument and Papandreou and others follow them.

Date: 1944, October
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056373
Lyndon Johnson meets locals and dignitaries during visits to Greece, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran

United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) waves at a crowd in Iran while standing in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible during an official visit to the Middle East and Southern Europe. A huge crowd listen to a speech by Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) in Greece. Cameraman readies his camera to capture Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech. Lyndon B. Johnson delivers a speech behind the podium, about the hopes “…We, of United States have for the future in this broad area of the world”. On Lyndon B. Johnson’s right is his daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson. From his convertible, Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with people. United States Air Force Two, a Boeing 707 carrying Lyndon B. Johnson, arrives at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. Lady Bird Johnson alights aircraft with Lyndon B. Johnson. Airplane door showing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Lebanese Foreign Minister, Philippe Takla, after Johnson disembarked from Air Force Two. Photographers capture shots of Lyndon B. Johnson arriving at Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran aka Shah of Iran, and Iranian Prime Minister Asadollah Alam in the Golestan Palace. Lyndon B. Johnson in a meeting with Turkish President Cemal Gürsel, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Cemal Erkin and Prime Minister Mustafa İsmet İnönü. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, during official visit to Nicosia, Cyprus. Cypriot Parliament in Nicosia. Vice President of Cyprus Fazıl Küçük attends. Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson pose together with King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika of Hannover in Tatoi Palace, Athens. Lyndon B. Johnson confers with Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Turkish people with American and Turkish flags listen to Lyndon B. Johnson. View of Ancient Greek Acropolis ruins. Lyndon B. Johnson says in his speech, “Thousands of years before man set foot upon the shores of our New World, great glories of civilization have been wrought here in the lands of the Middle East”.

Date: 1962, August
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078544
People cast their votes during a plebiscite and elect King George II as their ruler in Athens, Greece.

People take part in a plebiscite in Athens, Greece. Soldiers on a street with people gathered along the sides. A soldier casts his vote during the plebiscite. Officials seated at a desk. People loaded on cars as they celebrate the victory of King George II in the plebiscite. People hold pictures of the King. Field Marshal Kondylis in a military uniform.

Date: 1935, November 13
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058976
Greek rebel prisoners accompanied by military soldiers march along streets in Athens, Greece during the Greek Civil War.

Greek rebel prisoners including few women march along streets with military soldiers in Athens, Greece during the Greek Civil War. Greek rebel prisoners march through the streets. A jeep moves at the center during the procession. Greek rebel prisoners move in a line. Military soldiers accompany the rebel prisoners. Few women along with the prisoners.

Date: 1946
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065376