Hungarian refugees from the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution (also called Hungarian Uprising) disembark from an American Airlines plane after landing safely in the United States. Entrance to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where the Hungarian refugees were resettled. Hungarian refugees get off a bus. A Hungarian man holds his infant daughter with a pacifier. The camera moves to another Hungarian man, wearing a black hat. A Hungarian girl smiles, some of her front teeth missing. United States Army Sergeant Stuart Queen speaks to the camera. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks during his Second Inaugural Address at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. View of a radio tower. Radio tower view from the inside. View of the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Cars pass by modern apartment blocks with antennas on top of building. Television antenna on house roof. Man adjusts television as his wife watches from their couch in living room. A man and his wife, holding their baby, watches the inauguration speech of United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower on television from their family living room. Two women and a child watch United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speech on television. Family of a woman and her children listen to Eisenhower’s speech from a radio in their living room. Bombing on a street in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Men firing in Budapest. A tank fires in a park. Apartments getting devastated from firing. Hungarian man aims his gun and fires at a car. Men fire on a Budapest street. Doctor and paramedics carry an injured on a stretcher behind a tank. “Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city, henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of man’s yearning to be free”, said United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower from his second inaugural speech.
Sign saying “No loitering or electioneering between this point and the poll”. Long line to election poll in the United States during World War II. 1944 American voters wait in line on the street to vote. Woman, wearing a Tartan patterned headscarf and fur coat, waits outside. Cowboys gallop with their horses to the polling station. Man, wearing cowboy hat, gets off from his Ford Model-T car. Worker walks out to the street. A truck with workers on open-cargo area. A woman walks in an empty city street. View of crowd outside Bronx Beacon Laundry at W 169th Street Bronx NYC. People enter a house used as a polling station with a huge tree in front. View of different kinds of buildings used as polling stations for the 1944 United States Presidential Elections. Including the Barbara Fritchie House ( 154 W Patrick St Frederick, MD 21701) “Bridgeport High School” engraved in front of Bridgeport Central High school (44 Lyon Terrace Bridgeport, CT 06604 ) now Bridgeport City Hall. United Stastes voters wait in lines outside polling places. Two women eating biscuits together as they wait in line. A stylish woman, wearing a matching leopard print cocktail hat and scarf, smiles. A man, wearing cowboy hat, waits in line. A group of nuns, belonging to the Sisters of the Holy Cross (CSC) Congregation, waiting to vote. Man, with mustache and fedora, looks slightly up. View of American Red Cross volunteer. Americans forming a long line to the polling station to vote. A woman sits as she waits for her turn to vote. African-American voters waiting in line to vote. Woman, wearing a polka-dotted headscarf, glasses and overalls, waits in line. Men waiting in line in the suburbs. Americans wearing thick coats waiting in line to vote.
A secretary, Helen Shaw, registers before polling officials during the 1944 elections. A man and a woman sign a logbook before voting. Hollywood actor, Lewis Stone, searches for his name and signs a logbook before voting. A matron signs a logbook. A farmer, wearing a fedora, filling out a ballot. Hollywood actress signs a logbook before voting. Americans of different occupations line up to sign a logbook before voting. An elderly shipyard worker fills out his ballot. During World War II, British-American stand-up comedian and USO Entertainer, Bob Hope, searches for his name on the voters’ index and goes inside the polling station. Man closes curtains to vote. View of man’s feet while voting. View of woman’s feet slightly crossed. View of voters’ feet behind the curtains. Man casts his vote in metal containers inside polling station. Ballot inserted in glass ballot box. Man enters polling booth. Election volunteer tally using a machine. A woman casts her vote in Precinct 7-A. Newspaper says “Millions at polls First Texas, North Carolina Reports”. Shipyard workers on top deck of ship end a day’s work to head to the polling stations to vote, walking through ship structure on their way out.
Newspaper boy peddling newspapers with headline "Nip and Tuck Race." View of Times Square in New York City during WW2. Shops in Times Square with barricades to prevent vandalism by crowds. View of Times Building. An Asian man and a White man standing together while checking for election updates from Times Building. Election officials and staff open a machine processing election returns from the small towns from the Eastern United States. Election official opens a Perfection ballot box. Radio announcer with CBS microphone, possibly Bob Trout, broadcasts updates as votes are tabulated. Volunteers tabulate results. Woman's hand seen turning on radio. United States soldiers based in Italy and France listen to radio to hear that current United States President and Democratic party candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading race. Two United States soldiers smiling as they hear the news. WEAF Radio announcer broadcasts election returns from the west coast. An American family listening to the radio in their living room. An American family, with a picture of a serviceman on top of radio, listens to the news that Roosevelt won. Zipper marquee on Times building announcing election returns. Crowds gathering in Times Square New York. Americans celebrated the victory in New York. View of the Times Square at night. American civilians and soldiers celebrate the victory of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fourth term in office.
“De Coursey and Jameson “A Wish of Song””. Jameson, wearing a tulle empire dress, sings beside De Coursey. De Coursey and Jameson dance and sings together. The couple raise their hands as they finish their performance. De Coursey and Jameson bow on stage. They head for the exit, before coming back to bow abruptly, and leave again. Sign saying “To rent Theater- 600 seats completely equipped. Low rental. Alex. Friend&co. inc. 29 S. La Salle St. Randolph 4913”. View of Majestic Theater in Chicago (now known as the CIBC Theater). View of Biltmore Theater. View of Variety newspaper from March 14, 1933.
Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.
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