Exterior View of Fuld Hall at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08542). Interior view shows Professor Albert Einstein as he writes on a blackboard. He then sits at a desk. Exterior views of churches and a synagogue in Princeton, New Jersey. Group of American people gathered to celebrate "I'm an American" day. They march with flags and are seen wearing various outfits that depict their heritage. View changes to showing student at the entrance of a building at Rutgers University. Inside, veterans of World War 2 attend classes at the university under the G.I. Bill or GI Bill of Rights. A World War II veteran named George Hutchinson, who is a student at Rutgers University, speaks about how the G.I. Bill enabled him to return to school, and that everyone was friendly and cooperative in helping him return to school. A veteran who is a student performs tests in a laboratory using various beakers and tubes.
On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.
Anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Washington DC and Arlington Virginia. Large crowd of peace activists, pacifists and anti-war demonstrators gather at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) for a mass protest. The Washington Monument is seen from afar. A scuffle between anti-war demonstrators and hecklers. Demonstrators move in parade across the Key Bridge over the Potomac River, holding banners. Military policemen control the crowd as they protest at the Pentagon. They arrest several demonstrators. Tear gas is used. Campfires are lighted by the protesters on the grounds of the Pentagon to stay warm during the overnight cold as the demonstration carries into a second day as a sit-in. Military police monitor the demonstrators.
The Nazi Wobbelin (Wöbbelin) concentration and extermination camp in Ludwiglust, Germany, four days after the camp's liberation during World War 2. Shows atrocities committed by the Nazis. Dead victims of the concentration camp lying on the ground. German civilian women exit a barracks building where they had been forced to view the victims. U.S. soldiers in a line to enter a building of the concentration camp. U.S. Army photographers take pictures of the bodies. A dead Wobbelin Concentration Camp victim lying on the ground.
A Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, Germany 10 days before the end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. soldiers at the camp. Emaciated corpses of camp victims lying on the ground. Barbed wire fences and prison barracks at the camp. A U.S. soldier talks with liberated prisoners. (Note: A surviving prisoner of this camp, who was liberated at this time, adds that the front gate was on fire early in the morning as the U.S. Army entered the camp site.)
U.S. Army Air Force bomber crew at an airfield in Germany during last days of World War 2, in Europe. Crew of a B-26 Marauder bomber arrives at their aircraft. They pile their gear under nose of aircraft. Crew Chief (Sergeant) and airman light cigarettes. The aircraft commander (Lieutenant) signs release on Form 1, without any preflight or other inspection. He then opens a duffel bag and distributes candy bars and snacks to the crew members. The crew members pet a dog, while smoking and snacking under the nose of the aircraft. The aircraft commander stubs out his cigarette and drops it on the pierced steel matting of the parking place, where it falls into one of the holes. View of hole show cigarette butt surrounded by grass and tinder. (This appears to be an enactment of how an aircrew should NOT behave.) Pilot talks to crew chief through open window of aircraft. Between 50 and 100 bombs are painted on the fuselage, indicating how many missions have been flown in this B-26. Pilot and copilot climbing into cockpit, where a pair of baby shoes hangs in cockpit windshield.
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