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Republicans monitor election returns during the U.S. 1940 National Elections

Huge boards listing the 48 States and their respective voter demographics, are set up in a Republican headquarters during the 1940 U.S. National elections. Three men on ladders, update election information on the boards, as returns come in. A large poster of Wendell Wilkie is at one side of the boards and one of Charles McNary on the other. Newspaper and radio reporters, and Republican supporters fill the hall. It is late at night, and some tired campaign workers are seen sitting with feet outstretched on the floor at the back of the hall. Noise of conversation fills the room as people discuss the election returns being posted.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940, November 5
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050198
Wendell Wilkie makes an appearance at Republican election headquarters during U.S. 1940 National Elections

Republican headquarters during the 1940 U.S. National elections. Huge boards listing the 48 States and their respective voter demographics, are set up to record election returns as they are reported. Posters of Wendell Wilkie and Charles McNary flank the status boards. Newspaper and radio reporters, and Republican supporters fill the hall. Suddenly cheers erupt among the crowd as candidate wendell Wilkie enters the hall and walks to a set of microphones. The crowd chants: "We want Wilkie,"preventing him from speaking.After some call for quiet, the room settles down. Wilkie tells the crowd: "I never felt better in my life," eliciting cheers.He speaks of being part of the greatest crusade of this century. Scene shifts to volunteers resting with feet outstretched in back of the hall. (It is well past midnight, and now November 6th.) Some are sleeping.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1940, November 6
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050199
Good wishes and contributions to March of Dimes flood White House for President's Birthday, 1940

U.S. Post Office mail trucks delivering many bags of mail to the White House, Washington, DC, on the occasion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday, January 30, 1940. Inside, stacks of letters are seen and women sort through them and empty coins from many of them. (These are contributions to the March of Dimes Campaign to fight Polio, instituted by President Roosevelt in 1938.) A huge birthday cake is also seen and men shown carrying it into the White House. Camera focuses again on the stacks of postal letters and coins. Several open letters contain dollar bills, as well. Mail carriers continue to bring in and empty mail bags. (World War II period).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1940, January
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050200
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt holds press conference at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii, in World War II

President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds a press conference, while seated on a couch on a lawn outside a building at Hickam Field Hawaii, during World War II. He is surrounded by members of the press and military officers and photographers. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, is seen standing next to a sailor photographer. Palm trees and ocean in background. The president, wearing a tropical suit, with bow tie, responds to reporters' questions.

Location: Honolulu Hawaii USA
Date: 1944, July 30
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050201
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt reviews dress parade at the Aiea Naval Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt visits Aiea Naval Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. President Roosevelt review sailors, nurses and hospital staff during a dress parade. Exteriors of Saint Louis College Administration Building.

Location: Honolulu Hawaii USA
Date: 1944, July 30
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050202
President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hickam Field and at Alea Naval Hospital in Hawaii, during World War II

Rear view of a car in President Franklin Roosevelt's motorcade driving along the flight line at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii, during World War 2. Several C-54 aircraft are seen (Navy designation R5D). President's The President sits with Admiral Chester Nimitz, in the back seat of an open 1942 Packard convertible motorcar. (It displays private use "A" gas ration stamp, the most restrictive, on its windshield.) Medics carry a wounded soldier, on a litter,past the car, and the President shakes his hand. A new scene shows the President's VC-54C airplane (Sacred Cow) parked in front of the air base terminal building, which it topped by a sign reading: "Aloha Air Transport Command." Change of scene shows spectators filling the lower level and porch of a building at the U.S. Naval hospital, Alea Heights. Next the President's car is seen surrounded by hospital staff in formation to honor him. Nurses in white stand at attention on the ground, and a large formation of sailors stand at attention on a porch above.

Location: Honolulu Hawaii USA
Date: 1944, July 30
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050203
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