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Oakland California USA 1935 stock footage and images

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View of the city of Oakland and its African American citizens.

View of San Francisco skyline as seen from across bay in the City of Oakland, California. Buses and heavy vehicle traffic on the streets of Oakland. Montage shows scenes in Oakland, including an orchestra band playing and various sports such as ice hockey and baseball. Narrator describes contrast of wealthy areas of city with poor areas of city. African American citizens along streets and sidewalks and near apartments and homes. Black woman walking with child. Black American children play. Black American men on streets. Still images of African American citizens in Oakland during World War II.

Date: 1974
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029946
Amelia Earhart successfully spans a 2400-mile course over the Pacific.

Amelia Earhart's plane lands on an airfield in Oakland,California. She emerges out of the cockpit and welcomed by press, media and public. Earhart gives an interview to the journalists and explains about her flight from Honolulu to the mainland. It took her 18 hours to span a 2400-mile course over the Pacific.

Date: 1935, January 14
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029429
Former U.S. President Hoover speaks out against Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and new taxation

Former U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover addresses people in Oakland, California during the Great Depression. He speaks out in favor of a balanced budget and against the new spending and taxation proposals of the New Deal under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He says, "The cost of the New Deal threatens to exceed that of the Great War...We have seen the creation of a most gigantic spending bureaucracy. That is not only a reduction of your standard of living, but of your freedom and your hopes. Here is where common sense cries out to be hear. The folly and waste must be cut out of this expenditure, and the federal government budget balanced, or we shall see one of three horsemen ravage this land: Taxation, or repudiation, or inflation...these issues transcend any group or individual. They represent the fate of the nation."

Date: 1935, October 7
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076840
Congressman Ron Dellums speaks in his office about police brutality on black Americans during 1960s in Oakland,California.

Sewers in the back yards of a residential area in Oakland, California. View of Police car driving on road, as seen from another moving car. Congressman Ron Dellums speaks in his office about police brutality on African Americans during 1960s. View of Black Panther Party demonstration outside the Alameda County Court House circa 1968, with African American men and women participating. marching, protesting, and pumping their fists in the air ("black power" symbol). Former Oakland Police Chief Charles Gain speaks in his office. Meeting between Oakland Police Department and civilians. Deputy Chief Thomas Donohue speaks.

Date: 1974
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029947
Hovercraft to carry commuters is demonstrated in Oakland, California

Spectators on shore of Lake Merritt, in Oakland, California, watch demonstration of British-built hovercraft scheduled to carry commuters between San Francisco and Oakland. This will be the first commercial use of hovercraft in the U.S.A. Various views of the hovercraft in operation, including from inside the vehicle. Its ability to float, with engine stopped, is demonstrated. Narrator comments that the hovercraft can operate over any surface.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033540
Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton, describes Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Cites police brutality as cause

Images of destruction of Black Panter Party National Headquarters Office in 1968, by Oakland, California, police. African American male image seen through broken window and another through window with gun shot hole in it. "Black Panthers" printed on signs in background. Scenes accompanied by drum beats. Huey P. Newton, one of the Black Panther Party founders speaks about police brutality in Oakland, California, United States. He is speaking from an anteroom adjacent to Oakland Police headquarters. Police officers can be seen in their offices, through windows in the room.

Date: 1968
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029940