U.S. Coast Guardsmen with 11 prisoners move in a row on the port. The seized boat with cargo at the port along with the coastal guard boat. Workers removing seized liquor cargo from the boat. A coastal guard supervises them. The seize include liquor packed in bags. 'Pure rye Whiskey' is written on one of the bag. The seize is loaded on a wheeled cart and moved by workers. During Prohibition.
Hulk of ship Victoria, a Bermuda liner in water. Wreckage of the ship float on water. A boat with divers and a smaller boat near it. Men with bags of explosives. A diver in the boat. He dives in water. The diver comes back to the boat. Blast in water.
Images of Niagara Falls and surrounding land shortly after the collapse of a rock shelf between Prospect Point and Luna Island. The collapse altered the contour of the falls for the first time in centuries. A cavity 150 feet wide has opened in the rim of the falls. Ice formations seen near the falls flowing water and encrusted on the viewing platforms. Two men seen standing near the falls.
Glimpse of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with U.S. Army troops posted to protect nine African American students enrolling at the school. Scene shifts to after graduation, when Minnijean Brown, one of the nine, strolls the campus of Southern Illinois University, and speaks of wanting to be a writer. She is seen in the office of a newspaper, where she works as a part time reporter, after school. Brown walks on the college campus with Professor Simon. she bicycles and picnics with friends.
Jefferson Thomas, one of the African-American students part of the Little Rock High school segregation controversy walking amongst students in hallway of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas, four years after graduating. The hall is filled with students changing classes. Thomas climbs staircase holding the bannister. A white student courteously tries to help him find his way. He walks down a hall and looks at teacher and students in a classroom. Scene shifts to years earlier, showing Thelma Mothershed, another of the Little Rock Nine African-American students, in a similar classroom at Central High, and then rapidly to her walking along a hallway, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. She speaks of teaching and children, as scenes show her with children in school settings. She is also seen in a dressmaking class. Scene reverts back to her at Central High in Little Rock.
As an embarkation preparation U.S. soldiers enter in queue at Camp Merret in New Jersey. An officer gives commands. Soldiers receive ration packets, in a queue. A soldier with his ration packets. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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