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Officers, dignitaries and policemen outside the Texas School Book Depository and men take pictures in Dallas, Texas.

The Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas on date of assassination death of President John F. Kennedy. Dignitaries and officials outside the book depository building. Police cars and policemen stand outside the building. Dignitaries and officers crowd outside the building. Traffic on a road. A man with two young children. Police officers with rifles. A sign reads 'Texas School Book Depository'. Dignitaries and policemen stand. Police arrest a man and take him away in a car. A civilian carries a rifle carefully, by its strap, from the Book Depository building, and places it in a car. Civilians crowd on the road. Policemen stand in a group and talk. Dignitaries and officials talk. Men take pictures.

Date: 1963, November 22
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033711
1941 Cotton Bowl Classic between Texas A&M Aggies and Fordam Rams, played in Cotton Bowl Stadium, Dallas, Texas on January 1, 1941

Film opens showing fans filling the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Next. opposing teams are lined up on the line of scrimmage. A running play gains some yardage before ball carrier is tackled. Referees mark the location and the teams set up on another line of scrimmage. Closeup of a Texas fan wearing a beat up cowboy hat and ill-fitting eye glasses. More views of play on the field. Final view shows crowd (of 45,507) in the stands. The game was a cliffhanger, with final score: Texas 13 and Fordham 12

Date: 1941, January 1
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046750
Colonel W.E. Easterwood presents a $25,000 prize to French aviators Coste and Bellontefor the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas.

Film opens showing people assembled at a celebratory dinner, honoring French aviators, Captain Dieudonne Costes and Lieutenant Maurice Bellonte, who on September 1, 1930, flew their Breguet XIX aircraft,"Le Point d'Interrogation" (The Question Mark) non-stop from Paris to New York, and thence to Dallas Texas,landing at Love Field, Dallas, on September 4th,where they were greeted by 30,000 aviation enthusiasts. They are being honored by William Edward (Colonel) Easterwood, Jr., a Texas philanthropist and aviation enthusiast who had offered a $25,000 prize for the first one-stop flight from Paris to New York to Dallas,Texas. Colonel Easterwood delivers congratulatory remarks, and presents his check for the prize to the fliers. Closeup of the Easterwood check. Broadcast microphones are placed close to Colonel Easterwood and the fliers. Next, the fliers stand near the end of the event. Scene shifts completely to Costes and Bellonte with their aircraft, "The Question Mark, aboard a steamship, ready to sail back to France. Closup of the aircraft with large question mark painted on its side along with names of cities world-wide to which it had flown. Among these are: Hanoi; Calcutta; Karachi; Alepo; Athens; Rome; Paris; and New York. (Note: There is a display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field, that includes the actual prize check as well as a panoramic picture of the "Question Mark" landing in Dallas, along with a plaque commemorating the event.)

Date: 1930, October 16
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069012
Using sketch, Secret Service narrator shows movements of Lee Harvey Oswald, in Dallas, Texas after assassinating President Kennedy

A diagram shows the route taken by Lee Harvey Oswald to escape after assassinating President Kennedy in Dallas,Texas. It traces Oswald's movements from the Texas school book depository building and by bus and taxi to his rooming house. Narrator points out places where his jacket was found, as well as where he shot Officer Tippit, and the Texas theater where he was apprehended ..

Date: 1964, March 18
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037385
Edgar Bergen with his doll Charlie McCarthy interviewed during a parade in Forth Worth, and meeting with Texas Rangers in Dallas

In Fort Worth, Texas, famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his doll Charlie McCarthy are interviewed during a parade in their honor, that started at the T&P Terminal following their performance at Casa Manana. Here they are seen stopped along the parade route to talk to Amon Carter from radio station WBAP, the first radio station in Fort Worth. Amon Carter presented Charlie McCarthy with a Shady Oaks hat, his custom with all notable persons who visited Fort Worth. A crowd of spectators stands near them and watches during the radio interview. Scene moves indoors to a Texas Rangers ceremony in Dallas, with McCarthy and Bergen entertaining as Texas Rangers stand behind them and watch.

Date: 1938, August 24
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056266
U.S. President John Kennedy's accused assassin Lee Oswald is shot and wounded by Jack Ruby at Dallas Jail in Dallas, Texas.

U.S. President John Kennedy's accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald being shot at Dallas Jail in Dallas, Texas. An armored car backs up at Dallas jail. Lee Harvey Oswald walks under police guard in Dallas Jail. Cameramen record the event. Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald. An ambulance carrying unconscious Oswald rushes to Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Date: 1963, November 24
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061491