U.S. Coast Guard Cargo Passenger vessel C-3 African Comet leaving port of Ingalls shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Later the African Comet was renamed the USS Arthur Middleton (AP-55, APA-25) and carried a joint crew of U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Miss Mary Maud Farrell the sponsor, dressed in white. Dignitaries and crowd gather for launch. Sailors on deck. Film camera equipment on deck. Two other boats seen with African Comet.
View of the first all-welded passenger ship, the C-3 African Comet standing at Ingalls Shipyard. Workers remove wooden support beams beneath the ship. Young woman sponsor, Mary Maud Farrell, on occasion, with rose in hand. Bystanders bid farewell when Comet leaves dock area. (Ship was later renamed the USS Arthur Middleton AP-55, APA-25).
United States Coast Guard C-3 Cargo Passenger Vessel African Comet at Ingalls Shipbuilding port. (Ship later renamed the USS Arthur Middleton, AP-55, APA-25). Sailors on deck. Workers working at the vessel. Wooden planks being lifted at the dry dock after launch.
A wrecked freight car in Horn Lake, Mississippi. A high altitude view of the area. Men inspect the wrecked freight car. Debris in the area.
A large crowd gathered at the Mississippi Economic Council silver anniversary meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, held at the Coliseum. President Nixon enters the meeting auditorium with his wife Pat. Whole of the crowd in auditorium applauds. Officials greet and welcome them on stage. Mississippi Governor William L Waller gives introductory address and praises Nixon's concern for Mississippi. President Nixon listens carefully to his words and shakes hands with him as he finishes his speech. Other officials attending included Senator Jim Eastland, Senator John Stennis, and Mississippi congressmen.
General of Army, Douglas MacArthur, speaking on the steps of the Mississippi State Legislature, addresses a joint assembly of the Mississippi State Legislature, and citizens, in Jackson, Mississippi. MacArthur emphasizes that charity begins at home. He questions the merits of America spending billions to fight communism abroad. Further, he questions the commitment of European nations to fight against communism. He notes that the U.S.A. had spiritual leadership of the world, backed by the greatest military power in history, at the end of World War 2. But he claims the U.S. dissipated that power, by betraying Nationalist China; and permitting the Soviet Union to expand into Eastern European countries; while American disarmed and demobilized.
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