The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines. Western railroad lines under construction in the United States. Groups of men driving in railroad ties for western railroad expansion in 1800s. Horse drawn wagons carry equipment for railroad construction. Men work constructing railroads. A gusher oil well spraying oil. View of a port area with many idle tall sailing ships and merchant vessels docked in the harbor, seemingly replaced by railroads as chief method of transporting goods. Close up of a masthead of a woman on one of the sailing ships. Reduction in the number of ships because of inadequate financial assistance by the government. Actor portrayal of ironclad ship ramming a wooden tall sailing ship during Civil War. U.S. military forces unload foreign-bought ships during Spanish American War of 1898. U.S. soldiers unload supplies and bring them ashore on beaches of Cuba. View of paddle wheel steam ship named "City of Memphis" steaming on Mississippi River. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. Tug boats push massive freight loads along a waterway in the United States. Men on the deck of a ship that is cutting through ice during spring thaw on the Great Lakes. Ship passing through lock of a domestic U.S. canal. View from inside the wheel house a large domestic waterway ship in the United States.
College student James H Meredith with Constance Baker Motley and a man walking at the University of Mississippi, after Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school's history. University campus buildings seen. Police at the campus. Crowd gathered. Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett's car arrives at campus. Governor Barnett emerges from the car and waves. Police officer talks to another man. People applaud. President John F Kennedy addresses the nation stating that Americans are free to disagree with the law, but not to disobey it. He appeals to people of Mississippi to comply peacefully with civil rights integration laws. Army troops on road. Former Major General Edwin Walker, from Texas, is seen in a car during arrest process for having incited insurrection. A policeman checks the car with Walker in it. Troops pass by in military jeeps and maintain order.
A map of United States. Tourists couple on shore of Lake Itasca. View of Mississippi Headwaters Monument post that gives information about the Mississippi River starting at that location, originating 1475 feet above the sea level from the glacial Lake Itasca. The couple crosses a water channel through stepping stones.
A film titled 'Hannibal Victory' depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A small boat at the edge of the Mississippi River. A steamboat underway in the Mississippi River. A man stands at a deck of the steamboat. A man operates a navigation wheel. Horn of the steamboat blows. The man operating the navigation wheel. The steamboat underway in the river. A railway bridge across the Mississippi River. A train passes over the bridge. The statue of famous American Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens also known as Mark Twain. Two women walk up steps. A plaque reads about Mark Twain. The statue of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Traffic on a street. People walk on a pathway. A railroad station. Smoke comes out from locomotives. Wheels of the freight cars. Men assembling the freight car wheels. A close up of the wheel with 'Hannibal' written on it. Animated map depicts the transport of freight car wheels from Hannibal to San Francisco. The wheels are hoisted and taken aboard a U.S. Merchant Marine ship in San Francisco. A man aboard the ship operate the controls. Several views of the wheels loaded aboard the ship. Ships at a port. War supplies are taken aboard a merchant ship. Two men seated in the foreground. A ship with a U.S. flag.
General Douglas MacArthur rides in open top car. Police motorcycle escorts with car pass on a street. Cheering crowds on sidewalks. General MacArthur is in Jackson on the occasion of his speech to a joint session of the Mississippi State Legislature.
View of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Tourists view equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square. View of streets of downtown New Orleans French Quarter. Exteriors of the Napoleon House. Cars, trucks, and pedestrian traffic on streets. At Mississippi River port in New Orleans, view of a passenger steamship or paddle wheel steamer arriving at dock. View of steamship underway on the Mississippi River.
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