Several views of Washington DC. Views of the Internal Revenue Service Building, at 10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The Washington monument can be seen from various viewpoints. The Washington Channel, as viewed from Hain's Point, looking toward Maine Avenue. Boats in the harbor. View of the Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States) as seen from inside the Lincoln Memorial, across the reflecting pool.
Views of buildings situated around the United States Capitol, Washington, DC. The Capitol can be seen in the background. Several pleasant looking apartments on a Washington street. A row of tenement houses in Washington, with clothes hung from back porches. Side-by-side apartment dwellings, in disrepair. A woman with several small children in doorway. A little girl sits on front steps. A dog walks past. Broken front door on apartment. A neat row of side-by-side apartments, in excellent condition. Alleyway view of poorer neighborhood. Wash hung on lines at back of houses. Capitol dome in view. A row of apartments with broken front doors and other signs of disrepair.
Young American men register for the Draft in Washington DC. Men seated at table as clerks fill out forms. African American woman clerk fills out forms for African American registrant. Draft Board Group on steps of a public building. White and African American American men seated in a room. White and African American men registering for the Draft. Young Asian man answers questions asked by a clerk.
Mildred Gillars also known as 'Axis Sally', a female radio personality and Nazi German propaganda broadcaster in World War II, steps out of an aircraft on arrival at Bolling Air Force Base in southeast Washington DC. She is accompanied by female escort, WOJC Katherine Samaha, and department of justice men. Gillars has been brought to the U.S. to face a grand jury treason inquiry. Gillars and party are next seen exiting a Base Operations building and they get into a waiting car and are seen next entering a building of the Department of Justice. Next scene is unrelated and shows Judge Carl Hyaty receiving a certificate of appreciation from Secretary Kenneth C Royall. Scene changes to Brazilian General Sosa Molina being greeted by General Albert C Wedemeyer at Union Station. Visitors get into the car. Brazilian staff officers stand in front of building being greeted by General Molina.
A meeting of Pan American Nations delegates at the Pan American Union headquarters in Washington DC (soon after becoming the OAS or Organization of American States). National flags of various participant nations at a partially constructed building. Officials and dignitaries address the assembly. An official lays a stone in the building as part of the ceremony. Audience listens to the address of speakers. Near end of clip is a brief, unrelated segment with an early United States Air Force helicopter model, small with an open cockpit, being flown in front of a McDonnell Aircraft Corporation building.
United States President Harry S. Truman arrives to receive Secretary of State George C. Marshall at the airport. President Truman shakes hands with and is greeted by officials. A chartered airplane with writing "The Independence" lands at the airstrip. From the plane descends General George C Marshall via a stairway marked "MATS" for Military Air Transport Service. President shakes hands with him and talks. President Truman and Secretary Marshall sit in the car of the U.S. President and then depart.