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Places in New Mexico, familiar to Ernie Pyle

Views of Ernie Pyle’s familiar places in New Mexico. Opening shot shows a man stepping from the porch of Ernie Pyle’s house, with great expanse of landscape in the background. A car driving along a quiet mountain road. People picnicking at a roadside table. Views of mountains and sky and a man leading a horse walking slowly up a sandy hillside. Horse-drawn wagon in the Pueblo of Isleta. A farmer plowing a field with a team of horses. Pueblo women placing rugs on a line and baking bread in an ancient clay outdoor oven. Pueblo residents celebrating Corpus Christi Day. They walk slowly carrying banners and flags. The local Priest says prayers for American soldiers away in World War 2. Inside the church, a Pueblo mother lights candles for her son, overseas, against a backdrop of stars representing each local man away in the war. Car is seen driving across a low bridge over the Rio Grande River. It drives slowly into the town of Sandoval, where a man leads a cow across the road in front of the car. Farmers cultivating rows of crops by hand. A woman sings accompanied by a guitar. A sheep ranch where shepherds on horseback move a flock. Sheep being herded into pens. View of sheep being sheared by team of men. Wool being piled into a truck. Mailman delivering mail to a country mailbox on a street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Two girls in jeans walking in town. A girl comes out of a building and embraces a young soldier in uniform, who was waiting for her. Pedestrians on the sidewalks in the commercial district. Women with cut roses; playing cards; baking a cake; and cutting a lawn with a manual reel mower. A wedding party walking along the sidewalk. Two girls reading. People in various settings reading the Albuquerque Tribune (or the Journal) newspaper. Movie houses that show films in Spanish and English. Students walking on the grounds of the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. More views of ordinary people in towns including people of Hispanic descent or Mexican Americans. Sheriff Harold Hubbell of Bernalillo County, who served with the 200 Coast Artillery on Bataan, in 1942, is seen mailing a letter. Former Governor, Clyde Tingley, now Mayor of Albuquerque, comes down steps of a building. A Navajo indian reading a newspaper. A rancher rolling his own cigarette. A young Spanish American boy (Muchacho). Girl (Muchacha) rides a bicycle. A Navajo man followed by his family. Sign reading “Bataan Relief” announcing a talk by a Bataan veteran of World War 2. View of the speaker, in uniform, speaking to a group of mostly women. (Narrator states they lost a whole National Guard Regiment to the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.) Another glimpse of students at the State University. Another repeat glimpse of Pueblo women baking bread in outdoor oven. Views of girls and women. Various Views of Ernie Pyle with American troops overseas during the war.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028198
United States Naval Unit White Sands Proving Ground, a rocket range in New Mexico,United States.

A radio tower at the White Sands Proving Ground (White Sands Missile Range), a rocket range in New Mexico,United States. An aerial view of the facility and its surroundings. The sign on the entrance reads ' U.S. Naval Unit White Sands Proving Ground '. Truck and jeep come out of the facility's entrance.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029066
Vice President Nixon gives his closing statement during the fourth presidential election debate held in New York, U.S.

The fourth presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in New York, United States on 21st October 1960. ABC news correspondent Quincy Howe speaks during the debate and asks Vice President Richard Nixon to give his closing statement. Vice President Nixon opposes Senator Kennedy's statement that American is standing still. He says more houses and classrooms have been built, there has been a progress in civil rights and progress in field of slum clearance in Eisenhower's Administration which is more than in the previous administration. He says the United States should extend freedom to the world. He says that there were eleven dictators in Latin America in 1953 and now there are only 3 left. Nixon also talks about free government in Africa. He says that America will move ahead with the kind of leadership that we can provide in these years ahead. Correspondent Quincy speaks. He says that the opening statements by both candidates ran eight minutes each. The closing statements ran four minutes, thirty seconds. The order of speaking was reversed from their first joint appearance, when they followed the same procedure. A panel of newsmen questioned each candidate alternately. The first discussion dealt only with domestic policy. This one dealt only with foreign policy. As members of a new political generation, Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy have used new means of communication to pioneer a new type of political debate.

Date: 1960
Duration: 6 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073676
V-2 rocket crashes during testing at White Sands proving ground in New Mexico, United States

A failed V-2 rocket test at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. A United States V-2 rocket is being transported in a carrier to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. V-2 rocket in launch tower. The V-2 rocket launches from the launch pad. Shortly after take-off, the V-2 rocket veers off course, beginning its descent. V-2 rocket crashes and explodes, creating a thick cloud of smoke.

Date: 1946, November 11
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037419
Secured factory buildings of Manhattan Project and views of the first atomic bomb test explosion in New Mexico, United States

A film titled 'Victory' about the first ever atomic bomb test in New Mexico, United States. Exteriors of some of the secure manufacturing and factory buildings that were part of the Manhattan Project production efforts. Military guards watch over the factory. View of the desert in New Mexico. Cactus in the desert. Views of the nighttime first atomic bomb test explosion in history, known as the Trinity test, seen from different distances and camera positions. Smoke cloud rises up from the first ever atomic bomb explosion. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068219
Lieutenant Brown briefs crew on route map at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico.

Lieutenant Brown at wall map using pointers, briefs crew on route map at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. He points out at Thule Air Force Base, Walker Air Force Base on map.

Date: 1953, October 21
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022818