First attempt of round trip trans-Atlantic flight from the United States. Men work on a Vulte V1A aircraft named 'Lady Peace' in a hangar at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. People look at the plane in which the first round trip TransAtlantic flight will be attempted from the United States.The aircraft is towed out of the hangar.
American Olympians return from the Berlin Olympics. They are welcomed in New York, United States. Filmed from a building high above the street, people look down from windows at a ticker tape parade in New York City. Motorcade moves past a large crowd on side walks. People look down from balcony of a building. A highly crowded street during the parade. Road construction in center of street restricts path for vehicles.A campaign banner for Republican Presidential candidate Alf Landon is stretched high above and across the street, between tall buildings.
Farmers on strike in Sioux City, Iowa. Farmers armed with logs of wood and guns protest against the transportation of agricultural products to markets. They dismantle the rail road track in the area. Reconstruction work carried on the track. A train moves on the track after the reconstruction.
A gesture of charity during the Great Depression in United States. A Kansas City, Missouri, businessman gives away 500 overcoats to unemployed men. Men line up to collect coats. Men wear the overcoats given by the businessman.
Crowd gathered in front of the Jailhouse in San Jose, California, where a mob of thousands had broken in and seized prisoners Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes, who had reportedly confessed to the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart, son of Alexander Hart, the owner of Leopold Hart and Son Department Store. The mob had taken the two and lynched them, in St. James Park, across the street. Under-sheriff Hamilton, is interviewed and states that they held the mob off until they ran out of tear gas, and then didn't shoot, because of women and children. View of many people and cars outside, as seen through cell windows inside the prison. One of the prison inmates, testifies about seeing the mob break into the prison and make their way to the third floor. View of the St. James Park, where many people are seen gathered beneath its palm trees. Camera focuses on trees where the prisoners were hanged. California Governor,James Rolph, Jr., makes a statement tantamount to condoning the lynchings. The film shifts to a new location, in Missouri, where, On November 28, 1933, a crowd of 7-thousand broke into the Buchanan County Jail, St. Joseph, Missouri, to seize and lynch an African American man, Lloyd Warner, who had been charged with criminal assault. The mob overpowered defending police officers and members of the 35th Tank Company, Missouri National Guard. One of tank company's six ton M1917 light tanks parked in front of the prison. View of broken steel prison door and battering ram used by the mob. Wrecked interior of the prison quarters. People posing near a broken prison steel door.
Hunting birds in United States. Wild geese and ducks in flight while they migrate. Huntsmen shoot down the birds at Tule Lake. Men hold shot down birds.
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