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X-15 aircraft flies, lands and taxis on a dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

North American X-15 rocket powered aircraft first powered flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. X-15 in flight. A radar in the background. X-15 flies and lands on a dry lake bed. A hangar in the background.

Date: 1959, September 17
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021473
Pilot Scott Crossfield comes out of X-15 and shakes hands with other officers after first flight at Edwards Air Force Base.

Pilot Scott Crossfield at Edwards Air Force Base in California. A man looks at X-15 with binoculars. The cockpit of the X-15 opens. Pilot Scott Crossfield in the cockpit. Men around him. The pilot removes his helmet and talks to crew men. He comes out of the plane. A fire van in the background. The pilot walks away from the aircraft. He shakes hands with the officers. H-21 helicopter in the background. A weather van and other vans near X-15. Scott Crossfield leaves the base.

Date: 1959, September 17
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021474
A speech by U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon at the roll out of the X-15 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, United States.

A speech by U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the United States. Vice President Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon arrive at a speaker stand at Edwards Air Force Base, California. They are escorted by other dignitaries. A flag of United States. People seated for the speech. Dignitaries on the stage. Vice President Nixon climbs up the steps of the stage and shakes hands with the dignitaries. Men take pictures. People seated on chairs at the base. Mr. Nixon; Mr. Kindelberger, President of North America; Mr. Horner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development make speechs. The dignitaries stand and applaud. X-15 is towed by a tug and is rolled out of a hangar. Insignia of United States. Dignitaries on either side of the X-15.

Date: 1958, October 15
Duration: 5 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021475
A D-558-2 Skyrocket with a B-29 Superfortress aircraft in flight during development tests at Muroc Air Force Base, California

D-558-2 Skyrocket with a B-29 Superfortress in flight over Muroc Air Force Base (soon after renamed Edwards Air Force Base). A B-29 Superfortress in flight. A Skyrocket is attached to the belly of B-29. Insignia of United States. A chase plane flies on the left side of the B-29. The posterior part of D-558-2 and B-29. Jet is turned on and the Skyrocket is still attached to B-29. Vapor comes out from the jet line. U.S. Navy Skyrocket emits much vapor while still attached to B-29. The Skyrocket with B-29 in flight. The Skyrocket detaches from B-29 mother ship and is in flight. It flies over the mountains. The Skyrocket makes pass from the landing field. (Note: the Superfortress bomber seen here has the big WASP Major engines. So it is probably a B-50 - perhaps XB-50.)

Date: 1948
Duration: 6 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021478
Corn and wheat harvesters at work, and poor tenant farmers line up for government distributed food in the United States.

Over supply of produce due to mechanization causes crisis for tenant farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. In Iowa: Farmland with a farm house, haystacks, cows and pigs. American farmer brings hay stacked in a wagon. A woman pulls a horse to haul the load up through an opening into the barn. Horses work on a farm, machines on a farm. A corn field. Farmers operate a corn harvester. A wheat harvester at work in a wheat field. Poor farmers and women of farm families wait outside a building to get government distributed food, due to Great Depression and glut in wheat and corn prices due to overproduction. Men, women and children stand in bread line seeing food aid. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women in need of relief. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.

Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021578
A regular Protestant funeral service held at All Saints Episcopal Church in LA, after the assassination of President Kennedy

Services at the All Saints Episcopal Church (All Saints' Episcopal Church 5619 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042) in Los Angeles, California following the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. People enter the church. Policemen stand guard outside. Mourners seated inside the church. The regular Protestant funeral service is read. Twelve ministers take part in the services. The choir sings. People bow their heads in mourning.

Date: 1963, November
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021635