Scenes from Vicksburg, Mississippi at the National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee for United States Civil War veterans. Veterans sit beside their bedding under a huge tent shelter. Men wash up. Men wait for meals to be served. Men have meal. Men drink from mugs. Union and Confederate soldiers are seen together.
The skyline and business district of Memphis Tennessee. A horse-drawn cart coming down a wide boulevard. Factories and various buildings. River boats with paddle wheels; and also barges at docks of the Mississippi River beside the city. Wording "US Mail" visible on the side of one river boat. Smoke billowing from the stacks of the steam ships. A little girl wearing a hat and feeding pigeons in a park.
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. Ships underway in the Mississippi River as they enter a port of New Orleans. Buildings at the port.
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.
The Harahan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee. Railway track over the cantilvered truss bridge with a steam locomotive pulling train cars across the bridge. Armed guards in World War I era U.S. Army uniforms guarding the bridge as train approaches. A river boat passing underneath on the Mississippi River below the bridge . Men stand next to railway track.
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