Following repairs after it rammed the tugboat T.A. Scott Jr on November 16, the German merchant submarine "Deutschland" departs New London Connecticut, carrying silver bullion, for the voyage back to Germany, on November 21, 1916. At this time, it was a North German Lloyd Shipping Company merchant submarine evading the Entente Powers naval blockade of shipping lanes.
Boat racing in the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. Participants carry their racing shells to the Thames River and prepare for the race. The first Crew members wear no distinguishing clothing. However, the next scene with crew carrying their boat to the water shows them shirts displaying H (for Harvard). Several sequences of boats being rowed. (Attributed to Thomas Armat.)
The Harvard and Yale Regatta, in which rowing crews from the two schools compete in an annual race. The Harvard crew is seen removing their oars and lifting their racing shell over their heads to carry it into the boat house, from the Thames River, in New London, Connecticut. In a separate sequence, two racing shells start to race and are followed by a group of official and sightseer boats. (Attributed to Thomas Armat.)
Harvard and Yale boat race on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. View from railroad bridge crossing the Thames, as one racing shell takes the lead in one of the rowing boat races conducted annually between Harvard and Yale crews. Several steam-driven boats follow the rowers. One long row boat carries a number of women spectators. A huge crowd standing along the river bank cheers. Crews carry their racing shells from the river after the contests. (Attributed to Thomas Armat.)
U.S. Reconnaissance Unit marines receiving underwater training at the U.S. Navy submarine school, New London, Groton, Connecticut. Inside the Buoyant Ascent, Submarine Escape Training Tower, marines equipped with breathing apparatus and flotation collars, are seen rising to the surface of the tank. Glimpse of a submarine on surface of water. Inside the submarine, marines in a platoon, assigned to a team, are briefed by an officer. Then the NCO in charge, carrying his swimming flippers, leads his team into the escape trunk, for their first training mission. View of the marines as water rises around them. Then they are seen making buoyant ascents from the submarine, with bubbles trailing as they rise. View at surface as the team members reach it. The team swims toward shore, pulling their equipment in waterproof bags. They land on a beach, and sweep away any landing marks in the sand. Inland, a team member removes a submachine gun from its waterproof bag. He gives the gun to another marine, fully dressed in camouflage fatigues,
Jesse Jackson is interviewed in a press conference. Jesse answers Patrick Borgan of London Times on protesting peacefully with reference to 1968 and its riots and unrest vis-à-vis Civil Rights and racial equality for African Americans. Judith Randal of New York Daily News and Henry McGee of Newsweek Magazine are also present. Bill McCrory of Voice of America is the moderator. Jackson discusses the purposes of the protests of the 1960s, and explains that the vision toward the goal of equality takes time and has curves, rather than being a straight line. He implies that some people because satisfied with the gains from the 1960s, but that there is more to do, and that moral depravity and a lack of good ethics is the current obstacle in the 1970s holding back progress.
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