Film opens showing the U.S. Congress filling the U.S. Capitol chamber on April 2, 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany. Four days later, on April 6th, President Wilson is seen in black topcoat and top hat delivering an address from a building in Washington, DC announcing that Congress approved his request for a declaration of War. Former President Wiliam Howard Taft sits nearby. View of President Wilson dressed in summer white, relaxed and very casual, speaking impromptu to a group of persons in front of a brick building. Patriotic bunting is seen nearby. Change of scene shows Woodrow Wilson's youngest daughter, Mrs. W.G. McAdoo,Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo. An unidentified old woman is nearby.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson attend American Federation Labor conference in Buffalo, New York. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall attend an American Federation of Labor conference in Buffalo, N.Y. (1917). President Samuel Gompers and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor meet. The Labor Day parade in Buffalo. Troops and motorcars participate in the parade. Views of President Samuel Gompers and Secretary Frank Morrison. Hugh Frayne, General organizer of the American Federation of Labor, joins the group. They all take out their hats.
The Labor Day Parade in Buffalo, New York. A band plays musical instruments and a bandmaster instructs the band in the parade. The president of American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers sitting in car. The car passes along the streets of the city during the parade. Railroad tracks on a road. Delegates participate in the parade with miniature flags of the U.S.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson arrives and departs from the Convention Hall during the Labor Day Parade in Buffalo, New York. President Wilson and his wife Ellen Axson Wilson arrive at the Convention Hall. Troops enter the hall (during World War I). The President and his wife leave the hall. They get into a car. The Labor Day Parade moves through the streets of the city. Railroad tracks on a road. The troops march.
Display of a fuel cell powered truck of the U.S. Army in St. Louis, Missouri. The fuel cell powered U.S. Army truck drives along a road. The truck stops and a man gets off. The hood of the truck opens. The man looks under the truck hood. He displays fuel cells under the hood. The cells come from chemical hydrazine which produces electricity by air oxidation, and does not need recharging. The truck drives away. (Example of early electric vehicle concept.)
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur is buried in Norfolk, Virginia. The body of Douglas MacArthur in the America flag draped coffin is brought to Saint Paul's Church for services. Many prominent persons are present for the final rites. U.S. President Lyndon B.Johnson is represented by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. MacArthur's son, Arthur MacArthur IV accompanies his widowed mother, Jean MacArthur. View of funeral services being conducted by rector in church. From the church the body is taken to MacArthur Memorial for internment. Interiors of the Memorial. He receives national honors. The people mourn his death. The coffin of MacArthur lying in the MacArthur Memorial.
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