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Rocket assisted take off (RATO) of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.

Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins enters cockpit through nose door. RATO (Rocket assisted take off) bottles on flight line at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Strategic Air Command emblem on side of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber. The aircraft takes off from runway. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber rolls down the runways and deploys drag parachute.

Date: 1957, April 14
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022550
Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber with nineteen assist take off rockets firing, takes off at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.

Pilot Col. Michael N W McCoy and co-pilot Lt. Col. L E Gaskins enters cockpit of Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber parked at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida. Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber with nineteen assist take off rockets firing, takes off from the runway at Pinecastle Air Force Base, Florida.

Date: 1957, April 14
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022552
Nine black students enter Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, following desegregation, under protection of the U.S. Army

View of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas. Former student, Jefferson Thomas, one of the nine African American students who integrated the school in 1957, is revisiting the school. View of integrated student track and field team practicing.View of the front of the school. Flashback scenes of the "Little Rock Nine," black students trying to enter Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Police officer keeping back jeering local students. Racial fighting breaks out among people watching the event, and police try to maintain order. African American students unable to enter school while white students enter and police stand by despite federal school integration orders. Scene returns to 1964 briefly and then back to September 27, 1957, when on orders from President Eisenhower, a company of U.S. Army soldiers marches up takes up positions at the school. They set up barricades, maintain order, and provide armed escort for the nine black students entering school. The nine students enter army station wagons and drive to school accompanied by soldiers in an army jeep.Views of people mingling around the school as U.S. Army soldiers stand amongst them.

Date: 1957
Duration: 5 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024010
African American tennis star, Althea Gibson, wins Wimbledon, defeating Darlene Hard, 6-3, 6-2, on July 6, 1957.

Tennis star Althea Gibson, from New York City, USA, is seen in the final seconds of her contest with Darlene Hard, in the Ladies' singles final at Wimbledon, England,on July 6, 1957. She is the first African American to win at Wimbleton. After shaking hands with Hard, she is seen receiving the ladies' Wimbledon tropy "Rosewater Dish," from Queen Elizabeth, II. Althea Gibson displays the sterling silver salver, as she poses next to Darlene Hard.

Date: 1957, July 6
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069555
NCAA Track and Field events in Austin Texas, June, 1957

Gregory C. (Greg) Bell, a sophomore at Indiana University, is seen making his record-setting long jump of 26' 7", to win the national collegiate title on June 14, 1957, in Austin Texas. Bell sitting on the ground after his jump. Sequence shifts to the track where Don Bowden, of California, is running well ahead of favored Ron Delany, of Villanova, to win the 800 meter run in 1 minute and 47.2 seconds. (Note: Delany won the 1500 meter run in 4 minutes 6 and a half minutes.) The next day, on June 15, 1957, Bob Gutowski, of Occidental College,California, is seen breaking the World record in the pole vault at a height of 15 feet 9 3/4 inches. He poses momentarily afterwards.

Date: 1957, June 14
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069554
Britain Multi Jet Bomber,Vulcan flies to take part in the United States Air Force bombing competition in Florida.

Britain Multi Jet Bomber,Vulcan flies over Florida, United States. The ground crew signals on the airstrip. The bomber aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight to take part in the United States Air Force bombing competition.

Date: 1957, September 30
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055743