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State Department officials in Washington, D.C., discuss a document with many signatures. One signs it.

Opening scene shows Douglas MacArthur II, Counselor of the State Department, discussing a document with Assistant Secretary of State, James C. Hill. The document contains many signatures, and James Hill signs it, as well. Closeups of him and MacArthur looking directly at the camera. Closeup of the document. Scene shifts to exterior of the U.S. State Department building, as seen from Edward J Kelly Park, across 21st Street from the building. Opening scene shows Douglas MacArthur II, Counselor of the State Department, discussing a document with Assistant Secretary of State, James C. Hill. The document contains many signatures, and James Hill adds his signature to it. Closeups of him and MacArthur looking directly at the camera. Closeup of the document. Scene shifts to exterior of the U.S. State Department building, from Edward J Kelly Park, across 21st Street from the building. Bronze sculpture copy of Myron's Discobolus (Discus Thrower) is seen in the foreground.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056074
Police respond to anti-Vietnam War 1971 protests.

Washington DC Metropolitan Police responds to large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests conducted by the National Peace Action Coalition. Seal of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police on police car door. Police dispatcher communicates with police. Close up lit call buttons dispatch radio console. Night traffic in Washington, D.C. Police cars and motorcycles rush to the scene at night. Map at dispatch shows numbered call boxes lit. Dispatcher presses a “Monitor” button on console. Close up dispatcher talking into microphone. Silhouette view of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying at night. Evening traffic over the Memorial Bridge in Washington DC. Police cars and motorcycle moving on evening streets. Anti-war protestors taking cover behind cars at night. Reporters with motion picture cameras walking towards protests. Police standing on Canal Road fire tear gas up hill towards Rock Creek Park and Georgetown University area. Car rushes through small crowd of protestors. Finger of police dispatcher pressing the “Transmit” button on radio console. Dispatcher speaking into headset. A Volkswagen Beetle blocking a street in Georgetown. Cars barricading street near Georgetown. Protesters on the street. Protestor covering mouth to protect from tear gas. Police dome light on car. Needle on VU meter of dispatch radio console. Protesters wheeling away a dumpster. Woman moves trash can. Tear gas fired in federal area near National Mall. Policemen arrest protesters. D.C. Fire department van driving. Protesters open dumpster, spilling its contents on the street. A woman confronts a policeman. Policemen takes away an arrested man. African American man arguing. Sign says “If tear gassed WASH EYES HERE”. Policeman radioing while police run behind him. A police officer moving a trash can from the street. Police rocking a Volkswagen Beetle by its rear, trying to move it. Police officers carry a resisting protester. Burning newspaper dispenser in road. Hippie protesters, belonging to youth groups such as the May Day Tribe and Yippies, singing "Ain't Gonna Study War no More" and chanting “The whole world is watching!”

Date: 1971, May
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078909
Women pacifists march in New York parade demanding complete disarmament, during anti-war movement of early 1920s

Scenes from a November 12, 1921 protest parade of anti-war women march to support disarmament and promote messages of peace and "No more war". The parade coincided with the start of the Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Disarmament Conference. Women march in New York City, under the Washington Square Arch, with a banner that reads "The way to disarm is to disarm." A banner for "Religious Society of Friends" (Quakers). People march holding placards demanding complete military disarmament. A placard reads "Thou shalt not kill" and another reads "War means death famine pestilence." Another sign reads, "Cooperation pays better than competition. Let's try it between nations." A banner reads "Mothers do you teach your sons to save life or to kill?". View changes to parade as it continues on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. Large banner includes "Immediate, Universal, complete disarmament". Scene changes to Washington DC, several months later, on July 29, 1922. A group of pacifist women in Washington DC in front of their "No more war' banner. Women hang "no more war" signs on a artillery piece that is on display in a public square. Group of women raise their banner for "No more war" in front of the Headquarters of the Council for Limitation of Armaments, located at the National League of Women Voters headquarters building, at 532 17th St., NW, Washington, DC. (The Friends Disarmament Council of the Society of Friends was involved in this group, which was predecessor of the National Council for Prevention of War in the United States.)

Date: 1921, November 12
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051089
National commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington DC.

At time of sesquicentennial celebrations of the city of Washington DC: City development planning underway by the Planning Commission in Washington DC. Animated map of Washington DC by the National Geographic Society. Statue in a park. National Commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge. The commission members are seen walking across the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the Virginia side to the Washington DC side. View of the Lincoln Memorial and 1940s era cars in traffic circle and on Arlington Memorial Bridge. Commission members examine mock-ups of equestrian statues atop pylons at the Washington DC entrance to the bridge. (In 1951, the Arts of War Sculptures, named Sacrifice and Valor, by Leo Friedlander, were erected in those positions). National Capital Park and Planning Commission personnel are seen working at drafting tables in their offices in the Department of the Interior building. The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission members meets in the Lord Calvert Mansion in Riverdale for future planning. Exterior view of the Lord Calvert Mansion. Inside, the commission meets and a man points to and explains a chart on traffic control. The chart, dated September 1947, shows traffic flow into Washington DC during the "peak hour" of traffic, during which 58,000 automobiles pass through the area being studied. Elevated, aerial view from the U.S. Capitol Dome looking out across the city of Washington DC and on to the Potomac River and Virginia on the other side of the river.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073229
Demonstrators gather during the 1971 May Day Anti-Vietnam War protests.

Anti-war demonstrators gather during the 1971 May Day protests in Washington D.C.. Aerial view of Hains Point and protesters camping out in West Potomac Park in April, 1971. A man nails a May Day Protest poster on a tree, probably along Constitution Avenue. The May Day poster reads, "If our people fight one tribe at a time, all will be killed...Come to Washington, D.C. May 1-7." “The country should respond from coast-to-coast, with demonstrations and universities and communities across this country!” says Rennie Davis, an anti-war activist and one of the “Chicago Seven” defendants charged for anti-Vietnam War protests. Still image views of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the Milwaukee River and the domes of the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, and streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cars driving on roads near Washington D.C. Women walking across lawn near federal building in Washington, D.C. A tactical manual for “May Day”, with an image of Sitting Bull, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader who resisted against United States government policies, on its cover. A page title of the “May Day Tactical Manual” is written “The Mayday Scenario Saturday, April 24: Algonquin Peace City Opens”. Map of Washington DC showing the main targets of the May Day protests- the Selective Service System agency, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice Department and the Health, Education & Welfare Department. Sign reading, “National Headquarters Selective Service System”. Demonstrators from the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference attempt to break into the Selective Service System headquarters (1724 F Street NW in Washington, DC). Guards prevent protesters from entering the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters hold burning money and burn draft cards in protest outside the Selective Service System headquarters. Protesters chant "no more war" and raise their hands with clenched fists and peace signs, toss the American flag around, and sing a parody version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” A security guard snatches the American flag and brings it into the building. Burned draft cards posted on the main entrance of the Selective Service System headquarters. Again the next morning, demonstrators block doors to the Selective Service system headquarters, causing policemen to drag them out of the way by force. Trash from protestors on street. African American civil rights activist Hosea Williams yelling at police, saying, you are "locking up people without telling them anything, and that is wrong! It is wrong!” Protesters outside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A May Day collective protester surrounded by policemen. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare sign. Protesters rip down a wall inside the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policeman leads away an arrested man from the protest at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Policemen escort an arrested African American protester Hosea Williams, raising a clenched fist (black power), as he yells to onlookers, "I got it done, I got it done!". Protestors at the Department of Justice yell "free all political prisoners" and hold various signs saying “1984”, “We are all P.O.W” and chanting outside the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation building in Washington DC. Protestors clap and sing "Amen, amen, amen."

Date: 1971, May
Duration: 4 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078911
Famous persons who pursued freedom including Presidents and dignitaries of various countries.

Statues of Bolivar and of Artigas. The statue of Benito Juarez in Washington DC with the Watergate buildings behind. The statue of Winston Churchill at the British Embassy in Washington DC. Brief view of Winston Churchill waving to a ship and then seen in a car touring ruins of London following a German Blitz attack in World War 2. People wave to Churchill. Winston Churchill in a car waves back to them. A close up of Churchill. Pilots walk towards the aircraft parked at a field. Explosion blast of swastika at Zeppelinfeld Nazi Party Grounds at end of World War 2. British soldiers greet Churchill during World War 2 as he rides by on an armored car beside a machine gun, tips his hat and waves to soldiers. A French dignitary (appears to be President Rene Coty?) greeting and presenting an award to Churchill. Churchill waves to onlookers from a boat passing under a bridge. Churchill looks out of a window. African American woman sits on a park bench in Washington DC. A close up of a pigeon. An African American man reads a newspaper. The statue of Henry Longfellow at Connecticut Avenue. The statue of Taras Shevchenko. Aerial view of Kennedy Center in background and grounds of Teddy Roosevelt Island Park. A woman and a dog walk in the park. A branch of a tree. The statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the park and the trees in the park. Footage of Theodore Roosevelt speaking to people. View from Virginia side of Potomac River looking at Georgetown University and, beyond, at the Washington National Cathedral. The tomb of Woodrow Wilson at the National Cathedral. A close up of stained glass windows and architecture in Washington National Cathedral. View of Woodrow Wilson wearing a top hat and speaking to the people. A montage of scenes from World War 1. People crowd on a street in jubilant celebration for the Armistice Day in World War 1. Woodrow Wilson in a car tipping his hat to a parade crowd.

Date: 1969
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069596