U.S. Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1 on Elk Hills in California.. Mr. R.C. Patterson, Supervisor Oil and Gas Operations, Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, with his assistant Mr. J. D. Gerkel comes out of Naval Field Office. Both of them with charts in hand walk alongside field office. Oil wells shut down to conserve the Naval oil reserve. Patterson and assistant converse, derricks in the background. Chart shows Naval Petroleum Reserve Number No. 1. Naval undeveloped lands. Patterson and assistant talk to each other. Patterson and assistant drive up to the shut-down wells for inspection. Sign reads 'US Navy - Well No. 8'. Patterson and his assistant enter and come out of building.
Operation Arkansas at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. African American students arrive at Central High School. U.S. 101st Airborne Division guards stand around. Newspapermen interview an official. Chief of U.S. Military District Major General Edwin G. Walker talks to 101st Airborne Division, 1st Airborne Battle Group Commanding-Officer Colonel William A Kuhn. Major General Walker get into jeep and leaves.
Operation Arkansas at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. U.S. 101st Airborne Division guards arrive at Central High School. Soldier mounts bayonet on rifle. The guards march off. A few guards with rifle at port arms, double time up the street.
Operation Arkansas by U.S. army in Little Rock, Arkansas. Grounds of National Guard Armory in Little Rock where some soldiers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division are billeted. A few soldiers stand near tents. Cloth line near tents. Soldiers standing in chow line. Soldiers eating. Photographers take pictures of two soldiers as they walk along street. Two soldiers escort African American students to station wagon on leaving the Central High School.
Operation Arkansas by U.S. army in Little Rock, Arkansas. U.S. 101st Airborne Division soldiers at barricade at entrance to Central High School. White students enter the school. African Americans arrive in U.S. army station wagon escorted by troops in jeeps. Soldiers escort African American students toward school. Front of school.
Operation Arkansas by U.S. army in Little Rock, Arkansas. Front of the Central High School to the entrance flanked by two U.S. 101st Airborne Division guards. Guards walk up and down steps of the school.
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