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U.S. President Harry S Truman throws out the first ball during the opening day for the new Kansas City Athletics (or "A's")

The Kansas City Athletics on opening day of the baseball season in 1955, their first year in Kansas City. Parade in downtown Kansas City to welcome the Athletics to Kansas City. Floats pass and players and VIPs go by on cars, including Bill Stewart and Jim Finigan. People crowd on either side of the street. People look out from shops and houses. Spectators in the Kansas City Municipality Stadium. Former U.S. President Harry S Truman seated with legendary owner and manager of the Athletics, Cornelius McGillicuddy, better known as Connie Mack. Dignitaries seated in the background. President Harry S Truman throws out the first pitch. Fans and spectators applaud. The game begins against the Detroit Tigers.

Date: 1955, April 12
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033803
Mobile sources like trains, motor vehicles, aircraft causing air pollution in the metropolitan city area of Kansas City, United States.

Air pollution and city smog due to mobile sources in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Aerial view of traffic on modern highway with overpasses. Heavy equipment at a construction site. A bus on highway. View from above of a locomotive emitting smoke. Aerial view of tug boats moving barges on river. A jet airliner taking off with large smoke trails from its four engines. A large diesel truck on the highway, giving off heavy exhaust. Vehicle traffic on major highway. Layers of smoke and pollution over the entire Kansas City area, seen from an airplane. General aerial views over Kansas City from an aircraft of wind carrying smoke away from the area, smog during a thermal inversion condition; smoke rising from open burning in a residential area; a grain elevator; a power plant. A blazing fire raising dense black smoke pollution at a junk yard.

Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072635
Military band and WAC band prepare for the arrival of President Harry S. Truman to a homecoming in Missouri

Preparations for the arrival of U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Kansas City, Missouri. Allied flags on poles. A military band seated in chairs. A man at a rostrum as he works on a microphone. A WAC (Women's Army Corps) band at the ceremony. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 27
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022062
Warships of the U.S. Navy fleet in the Hudson River on Navy Day in 1945

View of the Hudson River from an aircraft flying North, over the New Jersey shoreline. United States Navy warships are seen in the Hudson River, on the occasion of President Truman's first official visit to New York City, on Navy Day, October 27, 1945. Approximately 50 ships were anchored in the Hudson. The first clearly identified is the Battleship, USS Missouri(BB-63) with the Destroyer USS Renshaw (DD-499) tied alongside (bringing President Truman aboard during his review of the fleet). Others seen include the USS Midway (CVB-41); the USS Enterprise (CV-6); The USS Augusta (CA-31); and the USS Boise (CL-47). Several more surface ships are seen followed by six submarines on the surface, as the aircraft approaches the George Washington Bridge. More warships seen North of the bridge. Scene shifts to the USS Missouri and USS Renshaw, again. Next, the aircraft flies past a Navy blimp hovering below, over the river. The Aircraft Carriers, Enterprise and Midway are seen again. Glimpses of the New York City shore and buildings are seen at times in the film, as well as the palisades on the New Jersey shore, near the George Washington Bridge.

Date: 1945, October 27
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075942
Various scenes of open trash and refuse burning in the Kansas city area of United States.

Air pollution due to open refuse burning in the Kansas City area, United States. Aerial view of the open burning dumps on grasslands. A smoke column rises. View from airplane flying through the smoke. Trash trucks driving in garbage dump near smoking refuse. Aerial view of numerous fires burning in trash dump near river. Salvage yards with uncontrolled open burning. Interiors being burned in junk cars at salvage yard. Aerial views of open burning of refuse in backyards of homes in residential area. Smoke rising from commercial incinerators. View of "tepee" incinerator with smoke rising from it. Incinerator at apartment house with smoke rising from it. Smoke rising from the incinerator at Kansas City, Missouri sewage treatment plant, where dried sewage sludge is burned, and scrubbers are used. View from airplane of large fires and huge smoke clouds from urban renewal project. Car parked on dirt road in area of small trees and shrubs. Large trash fire behind it with billowing dark black smoke. City building in distance.

Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072632
Farmers transporting water for cattle from far areas after a drought in Kansas City, Missouri.

Farmers transporting water for cattle in Kansas City, Missouri. Livestock on a farm. Emaciated, thin, and dead and dying cattle suffering from drought and difficult conditions during the Great Depression. A farmer working on the farm. Water is transported from far areas after a drought in the city. A farmer loading containers in a jeep.

Date: 1934, July 30
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076823