On March 15, 1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of the Congress to urge the passage of new voting rights legislation in the United States. Members of the Congress applaud. President Johnson addresses that government will treat every citizen equal. Every American will be given equal opportunity and every American citizen must have an equal right to vote in the Voting Rights Act.
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of the Congress to urge the passage of new Voting Rights Act legislation in the United States. He references the Emancipation Proclamation. In his speech, a week after racial violence in Selma, Alabama, President Johnson says that this is the time for civil rights, racial equality, and justice and 'It is right in eyes of men and God'. He says that the real hero of struggle is the American African American and equality depends upon moral rights and we should respect the law and its orders. Members of the Congress applaud. He adds in his address that he wants to be the President to educate young children, to help to feed the hungry, to help poor to find their own way and to promote laws. The joint session of the Congress stands and applauds after President Johnson's speech.
Dismantling of battleship USS Wyoming in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The battleship is anchored. The U.S. flag on the ship. Mounted guns on the deck of the ship. Men standing on the deck. Men dismantle the ship's big guns. A gun is hoisted by a crane.
United States Navy Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's snow cruiser cracks up in Pullman, Illinois. A giant snow cruiser for USN Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd is driven along a road. Men stand on the cruiser. The U.S. flag on the cruiser. A man stands at the gate of the cruiser. The snow cruiser hits a bridge and plunges into a creek.
U.S. receives a train of gifts in New York City from France (showing their appreciation for relief goods sent by the Americans following World War 2). French freighter Magellan, with "Merci America" painted on her sides, arrives at New York Harbor. It carries a train of 49 French railroad box cars filled with tens of thousands of gifts of gratitude sent by the people of France. Government officials greet each other. A railroad box car is lowered on the dock area from the ship. A sign on the box car : 'Homme 40, Chevaux (enlong) 8'. People stand on either side of a road to welcome and look at the train of gifts while it passes along the streets of the city. Government officials seated in a car. A band plays musical instruments in a parade to welcome the train.
The anniversary of the D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy, France during World War II. A band plays musical instruments and marches. Allied Generals and officers stand in the background. Soldiers with rifles march. The D-Day Monument to U.S. Army's 1st Brigade of Engineers in the far background. Girls in patriotic dresses. Sailors march. A large crowd of civilians at the ceremony.
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