Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, in an open car, with his father, Richard E.Byrd, Sr., his wife, Marie (Donaldson Ames) Byrd and his son, Richard, in front of Union Station, in Washington, DC. Admiral Byrd conversing with President Hoover, in the White House garden, as the President presents him an award, from the National Geographic Society, recognizing his achievements in Antarctic exploration.
Report on the atom in Paris, France. Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist in an office. He makes a speech on France's progress in the atomic energy. A man seated in front of Curie in his office.
At start, film shows Dr. Leo Szilard (inventor of the cyclotron) standing in front of a cyclotron in the Pepin Physics Laboratory of Columbia University. He is studying some documented research results. Dr. George Pegram, Chairman of Columbia's Physics Department, enters and converses with Szilard. They review the research data together. Pegram leaves, and Szilard continues to review data. He holds a stop watch and enters some numbers in his journal. Dr. Pegram returns and they again look at the data. Closeup of the two reviewing data and conversing. Repeat of Szilard with stop watch, entering data. Closeups of Szilard speaking to Pegram (unseen). Closeup of Dr. Pegram, talking about the research results. (These repeated scenes are obviously retakes.) Closeup of Szilard's hand starting a stopwatch. Horizontal line and brief vertical lines also displayed on an oscilloscope.
A man in an overcoat and cap, walks along the Shaw neighborhood sidewalk of 7th Street NW, in Washington DC, on April 7, 1968 (Palm Sunday, and Day of National Mourning for Martin Luther King Jr. after his assassination). The man passes a Salvation Army store, and various storefronts including one selling home appliances, as he approaches the corner of 7th St NW and N St NW, Washington DC. Camera zooms in on front of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church across the corner at 1315 8th Street NW., where decorative palms are displayed on the church door. Camera moves close to church and pans up toward bell tower and down again showing parishioners leaving the church holding sprigs of palms. A priest in colored vestments greets individuals as they leave. On the sidewalk below the steps, two priests stand and also greet parishioners as they leave. Camera position returns to intersection of 7th St NW and N St NW, with view of the Seventh Street Savings Bank building at 1300 7th Street, then a part of the National Bank of Washington (that signage visible at top of the building's side facing N St NW.) Pedestrians walk by on 7th St NW., crossing N St NW.
United States soldiers on guard after the Baltimore Riots in Baltimore, Maryland. Views of a road in front of U.S. Soldiers Home. A jeep moves past on the road. A sign reads : 'U.S. Soldiers Home'. A soldier stands guard outside the building, following unrest in rioting in Baltimore in the wake of the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Activities in the wake of death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. United States soldiers after the Baltimore Riots in Baltimore, Maryland. Sign of 'Laurens St.' and another sign. Soldiers check a map on a jeep hood. A soldier stands guard. Police cars pass through a street. Troops in formation walk. A sign reads :'Pipe Rack Clothes'. A soldier and an officer stand near the building of Pipe Rack Clothes. Workers board up a store front. Wooden boards in a car. Soldiers in formation walk through a street behind cars.
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