Flashback on preparation for the launch of NASA Apollo 11 Mission in Kennedy Space Center. Early 1970s cars driving on highway near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Cars pass by Kennedy Space Center Campground sign saying “Space Center Campground 2 MI ahead on 1”. Cars passing by the Satellite Motel along the Florida State Road A1A (South of the 520 Causeway, Ocean Highway A1A, Cocoa Beach, FL). Cars driving on the Florida State Road A1A pass by two billboards saying, “Welcome to Cape Kennedy Resort Area” and “In the beginning God… Apollo 8 Six Cents United States Gateway to the Stars”. View of a launch complex inside the Kennedy Space Center. Monitors inside a mission control center. Speaker in a stadium near the launch site. The prime crew members- Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. and Commander Neil A. Armstrong, in ready room before entering the Saturn V SA-506. Buzz Aldrin yawns before the launch. Cars parked on the beach near the launch site. View of the Saturn V SA-506 in the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins depart for the launch pad. Astronauts going up on elevator in launch complex. The Saturn V SA-506 before launching. Launch controllers in the firing room of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the Apollo 11 mission.
View of the Navy Department building, also known as the Main Navy and Munition Buildings (now demolished and turned into Constitution Gardens. Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Sign says “Bureau of Ships”. Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane speaks about the United States Navy’s shipbuilding and maintenance program during World War 2 and great needs for steel. To underscore his point, he notes that, "A single salvo of the main battery guns of such a ship as the South Dakota, for example, will take 10 tons of finished steel." He goes on to say, “Our job in the Navy until the war is over is using steel to build and to fight. We must continue to rely on the Homefront efforts to collect the big tonnage of heavy industrial scrap which is needed to make a fine quality steel in huge quantities which we need in the Navy” concludes Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane.
Allied forces capture Cherbourg during World War 2. Town sign of Cherbourg, France. Soldiers pass through ruined street in Cherbourg. Allied troops patrol Cherbourg. United States troops of the 324th Regiment 79th infantry division enter Cherbourg as they close in from east, south, and west of the town. Infantry patrolling an empty street in Cherbourg. United States Army sniper firing with a rifle. A military truck is parked on a street as soldiers conduct house-to-house mopping up operations. A United States soldier firing a rifle to take out snipers. U.S. infantry soldiers enter a house. An American soldier runs out of the Café du Rond-Point. Road signs near the Café du Rond-Point say “Valognes PARIS” and “Einzelfahrzeuge” (“Single vehicles” translated from German). A United States sniper aims from a window of a house attic. An American soldier guards an entrance of an apartment. Close view of a United States soldier aiming and shooting. Taking of prisoners of war: Captured German soldiers with their hands up are marched out of a building by American troops. A dead German soldier in the doorway of a building.
Dr. Frederick Earl McLendon and his wife Mrs. Bennie B. McLendon are seen with a guest on the backyard terrace of their home in Atlanta, Georgia. They are then see in front of their house. Dr. McLendon, pulls mail from his mailbox. The couple returns to the house. Mailbox address reads “Dr. F. Earl McLendon 866 Woodmere Dr. N.W.” Dr. McLendon is then seen talking with an older associate while sitting at a patio table on the terrace. View of the home's swimming pool. African American Doctor Frederick Earl McLendon founded the McLendon Medical Clinic, later McLendon Hospital, which served African-American residents in Atlanta at the height of the Jim Crow era. The hospital opened in April, 1946 during a time of segregation in the south.
Exterior view of the David T. Howard School in Old Fourth Ward (present address 551 John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.) This is the elementary school Martin Luther King Jr attended. Men enter school building. Sign on "Colored Only" taxi parked outside reads “Colored Only Atlanta Car for Hire Ass’n Inc. Member”. A Black woman walks down a stone stairway at a Fourth Ward apartment building formerly at the corner of Hilliard St and Irwin St NE in Atlanta. Closeup of community water pump. Foundations for Interstate 85 overpass under construction in background. This is during the segregated Jim Crow era in the south.
Dwight D. Eisenhower accepts the nomination of the Republican Party during the 1952 Republican National Convention. Attendees hold signs bearing the names of American states at the Republican Party's Convention held at the International Amphitheater (4220 South Halsted Street; Chicago, Illinois 60609; United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Eisenhower raises his arms in front of the audience and accepts the nomination, saying, “I pick up this task therefore in the spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its burdens and of its decisive importance, I accept your summons- I will lead this crusade.” Richard Nixon, Patricia Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower and crowds clapping as Nixon enthusiastically holds Eisenhower's arm in the air in victory.
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