Wedding ceremony of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and Ethel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware. Relatives and guests of both family attend the wedding ceremony at Dupont Estate, "Owl's Nest". The bridegroom, U.S. President's son, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and the bride, an heiress, Ethel Du Pont walk together. Photographers and cameramen take photos. Ethel gets off a car and climbs up a flight of stairs. Views of Ethel. People wave at her. Roosevelt, Jr. and Ethel stand together. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with the guests.
President Roosevelt halts Bethlehem Steel Corporation steel workers strike to keep peace in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. View of water main that supplies the company plant purportedly sabotaged by striking steel workers using dynamite explosion. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt calls on the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to halt strike violence, insisting that the public is tired of the steel unrest. Exterior view of the White House. President Roosevelt seated at a desk writing in the White House. People standing on a road near a Bethlehem Steel factory. Several cars arriving at the factory grounds as striking workers look on.
The 1956 National Convention of the Democratic Party at the International Amphitheatre (4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess, taking seats at the convention. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, taking her seat. Democratic Party National Chairman, Paul M. Butler standing behind and below the podium as convention prepares to get underway. The amphitheater is filled with seated delegates, as they are called to order. Delegates standing and applauding, following the keynote speech of Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee, who touches the Tennessee delegate identification pole as it is thrust toward him. Delegates waving poles displaying their respective State names.
Air strikes of United States Air Force ( USAF ) aircraft in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A USAF Republic F-105 D Thunderchief in flight over a target area. Friendly aircrafts in flight as seen from the F-105. The aircraft targets the ground. Grassland in the background.
French General Philippe Leclerc greets an arriving General and stands with others of the Forces Expéditionnaires Françaises d'Extrême-Orient, FEFEO. Scene is at an airfield in French Indochina. General Leclerc presents awards and recognition to several soldiers standing at attention. One of the soldiers, a colonial, wears a bandage on his head. Another soldier is seen with arm in a sling. The ruins of an Indochina city. The damaged buildings and debris. Dead Viet-Minh lying on ground. A French guard stands on duty outside a building. Men inspect the damaged site.
U.S. Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks for 5th War Loan Drive from invasion headquarters in England during World War II. Eisenhower makes a speech about sacrifices made by men and women in battlefield as well as their homes. He talks about the resolution of the world conflict and he appeals for 5th War Loan Drive. He insists on the means by which the value of service to the country can be increased.
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