President Roosevelt returns to Washington after winning a 4th term in the 1944 presidential election. President Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Henry Wallace ride down Pennsylvania Avenue. Secrete Service Agents ride on running board of the automobile. Scenes of Armistice Day Ceremony at the Tomb of an Unknown Soldier. (World War II period).
U.S. Senate Subcommittee investigating Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage at Fort Monmouth. Committee Chairman, Senator Joseph McCarthy and Committee Chief Counsel question witness Joseph Levitsky about his relationship to Julius Rosenberg. In the course of his testimony, the witness invokes the 5th Amendment to avoid answering. Seeking a tie to Communism, McCarthy reads text of a Communist party pledge and asks if Levitsky ever signed such a pledge.
American women take part in a torch marathon race in Houston, Texas at the eve of National Women's Conference promoting equal rights for women, discussion of women's issues, and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The participants hold American flags. Thousands of American women gather along the streets to cheer and clap for the participants. Scenes of Women delegates voting, women waiting, women making banners. Photographers, press and media officials take coverage of the event.
Gloria Scott officially opens the first plenary session of the National Women's Conference at Houston, Texas, focused on equal rights for women, women's issues and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Thousand of American women present at the eve cheer. Speeches by Rosalynn Carter and Betty Ford. Betty Ford feel proud to be a part of the conference. Band music is played. Women chant slogans including "E.R.A." and "E.R.A. NOW" and cheer as four women arrive at the venue holding a burning torch.
Gloria Scott raises a gavel and shows it to the women attendees present at the first plenary session of the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, focused on women's issues and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Thousand of American women present for a conference on equal rights for women at the event cheer. IWY Presiding Officer, Bella Abzug speaks for the rights of American women including homemakers, housewives, working women, widows, women in administration, and others.
Barbara Jordan, U.S. representative from Dallas, Texas, makes her speech during the first plenary session of the National Women's Conference at Houston, Texas. (Conference focused on women's issues, women's rights, and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment). She expresses a need of domestic human rights program fro American women. Prominent American women figures and thousands of other American women present for the equal rights conference give her a standing ovation.
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